What Arbutus Offers

Arbutus Consulting provides the skills and experience to create quality initiatives that fit your unique business and community needs, and the commitment to delivering on time, on budget and on strategy. We draw from extensive experience to offer strategic counsel on working with aboriginal communities and organizations and with multi-sector collaboratives.

• Community Engagement & Development
• Aboriginal Engagement & Development
• Strategic Philanthropy

Community Engagement & Development

Arbutus facilitates community engagement with the following services:
• Consultation
• Policy development
• Strategic planning
• Program development
• Internal systems alignment
• Implementation/project management
• Research

Community development offers innovative, value-creating and sustainable opportunities for engagement. Leading development initiatives combine the right mix of financial and human investments to:

· Transfer business expertise,
· Create or open markets to businesses
· Develop human resources and employment   
  opportunities
· Build relevant education & training, and
· Build community capacity.

Aboriginal Engagement & Development

Whether a company is operating in an area that holds rights & title interests of First Nations, or is committed to responsible development, many seek to foster mutually beneficial relationships with First Nations. The complexity of Aboriginal relations can be managed most effectively through meaningful relationship-building efforts and effective engagement strategies.

First Nations are increasingly building connections with the mainstream economy to acquire more tools for community development and self-sufficiency. These connections create value when community development is combined with the knowledge and understanding needed to steer the opportunities through to successful completion.

Arbutus can guide you successfully to develop strategies in:
· Contracting & procurement,
· Human resource development,
· Education & training,
· Aboriginal consultation.