Sample Case Studies

• • Climate

  Addressing Climate Change Risks in Ghana and Vietnam

  CBI facilitates workshops in Ghana and Vietnam and designs tailored role-plays to help participants consider risks associated with climate change.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI, along with the World Resources Institute, facilitates workshops in Ghana and Vietnam and designs tailored role-plays to help participants consider risks associated with climate change.

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• • Economic & Social Policy

  Advancing Economic Opportunity in North Carolina

  CBI helped the North Carolina Leadership Forum identify the state's socioeconomic challenges and outline possible solutions.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI helps the North Carolina Leadership Forum identify the state’s socioeconomic challenges and outline possible solutions.

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• • Energy & Extractives

  Assessing and Facilitating a Governance Structure Redesign for PJM Interconnection

  CBI and Raab Associates, Ltd. (a CBI Partner) facilitate a stakeholder process to transform the governance of PJM Interconnection, the largest regional transmission organization in the U.S.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI and Raab Associates, Ltd. facilitate a stakeholder process to transform the governance of PJM Interconnection, the largest regional electricity transmission organization in the U.S.

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• • Energy & Extractives

  Assessing Corporate-Community Conflict over a Hydropower Project in India

  CBI conducts a stakeholder assessment around the construction of a hydropower project in northern India, hoping to resolve conflicts between the energy company and the local community.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI conducts a stakeholder assessment around the construction of a hydropower project in northern India, with the aim of pinpointing and resolving conflicts between the energy company and the local community.

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• • Coasts & Oceans
  • Natural & Cultural Resources

  Balancing Conservation and Fishing Interests in Hawaii

  When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harmed the local false killer whale population, mediators helped negotiators devise rules to protect the species without hurting fishing fleets.

  October 23, 2025

  When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harms the local false killer whale population, CBI and CONCUR facilitate negotiations that lead to full consensus on management changes and research activities to reduce whale takes while preserving the fishing fleet's financial viability.

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• • Energy & Extractives

  Beyond NIMBY: Exploring Stakeholder Landscape Values and Wind Energy Development

  CBI assists Macalester College to design and lead intensive stakeholder workshops across the country to better understand opposition to wind energy.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI assists a research team from Macalester College in the design and planning of a series of public engagement workshops focusing on wind energy development in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Minnesota.

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Partial List of Convenors/Clients

• A Better City

• Aboriginal Leadership Inst.,Inc

• Amazon Conservation Team

• American Academy of Pediatrics

• American Cancer Society

• American Petroleum Institute

• American Wind Energy Association

• Asia Foundation Philippines

• Asialink Business

• Asian Development Bank

• Asociación Balam


• Association of National Estuary Programs

• Barr Foundation

• Bay Area Metropolitan Commission and Regional Collaborative

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Boston Foundation