Is your organization or project in need of strategic financing, credibility in a new space or access to a network of supporters or stakeholders? Do you need a partner with creative solutions to manage risk and solve challenges?

Public/private partnerships are emerging as creative solutions in business development to solving challenges and addressing risk for all involved. Common reasons for these partnerships between private businesses, government organization and non-profit groups are a shared vision or idea, implementation of a pilot program or project, a need for new regulatory or policy pathways, the vetting and trouble shooting of a new technology, risk identification and shared management, strategic financing and contracting methods, access to grant funding and public education on a new process or issue.

Good Company has been the facilitator of many public/private partnerships especially for renewable energy projects, clean fuels and diesel emissions reductions initiatives. Before introducing and pairing organizations, Good Company considers the ultimate goal and reach of the project, the potential beneficiaries of the project, those who will be negatively impacted or hurt by the project, potential stakeholders and interested parties and who has the resources or access to resources to help with the project. We then design one or more partnership scenarios and critical pathways towards project success.

Highlighted Projects:

Good Company designed, staffed and coordinated strategic public/private partnerships in the Columbia River Clean Diesel Emissions Reductions Project through Oregon Solutions which focused on establishing a commitment to reduce diesel emissions from area tugs, rail, trucks, cargo handling equipment and fuels. The governors of Washington and Oregon designated this project for the Columbia River ports, private freight companies and regulators to develop a strategy for collectively reducing diesel and climate emissions in the Columbia River Gorge.  View the resulting emissions reduction commitment.

Good Company facilitated public/private partnerships on the North Portland Diesel Emissions Reduction Project through Oregon Solutions to reduce particulate emissions in an environmental justice area to offset increased pollution loading due to an I-5 expansion. Sponsored by the Oregon Governor’s Office, the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. View the results of the partnership.

Good Company coordinated thirty-plus public/private diesel buyers and sellers in a partnership to purchase ultra-low sulfur diesel and biodiesel in advance of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory mandate on the Lane Clean Diesel Project sponsored by the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency.  These volume and demand commitments contributed to the construction of a biodiesel refinery, SeQuential Biofuels, in Salem, Oregon to supply the region. View the declaration of cooperation.

Good Company assembled the Engineer Procure Construct private sector team as partners to the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Office of Innovative Partnerships and Alternative Funding to deliver the first solar installation in the Federal Highway right of way through the state of Oregon’s Solar Highway Program.  View descriptions of the partnerships and project.