Communicas

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Strategy, Communications, Partnership and Brokering for Sustainable Development.

Communicas is a collaborative consulting and production network focused on planning, producing and brokering resources for sustainable development at the intersection of community and communications.

“Communicas” is a newly coined word emphasizing the role of communications in the community building process. Communicas is derived and adapted from the Latin “Communitas,” referring either to an unstructured community in which people are equal, or to the very spirit of community (Wikipedia). In 1947, Paul and Percival Goodman published their seminal work, Communitas: Ways of Livelihood and Ways of Life, an inspiring review and prescient projection of the choices we face in the participatory planning and design of free communities, re-introducing the notion and role of the “spirit of community” to the realms of professional planning and broader public discourse.

Communicas, as a consulting network, aids clients, professionals and community members in collaboration and the creation of communications products and services which enhance the sustainability and spirit of community.

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For more information, please contact us:
communicas_public@yahoo.com
+ 1 646-495-9244 x 43296

Communicas: Background and Capabilities Statement

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Communicas works with clients to identify, communicate and broker critical opportunities for sustainable development.

Communicas is a Collaborative Consulting, Research and Production Network. We provide conceptual consulting, research, communications and sustainable development information, products and services for organizations and communities. Working at the intersection of community and communications, we are dedicated to telling the stories and leveraging the resources needed for the transition to sustainable societies.

Communicas follows a stewardship approach to what former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich has described as the highest value core skills of the emerging sustainable global economy:

problem identification and problem solving

through communications and strategic brokering.

This is one key to effective leadership, "the art of the deal" as community stewardship.

Sustainable development practice creates achievable, equitable, green and economically attractive plans and management for projects.

Strategic planning satisfies short term community, business and organizational objectives in service to long term visions and measures of sustainable community.

Conceptual consulting identifies resources, engages creativity and brokers transformational opportunities.

Communications strategies and services turn data into knowledge, nurture learning and leadership, build relationships and lay the groundwork for successful transitions to sustainable design, investment and practice.

Projects scale from small to large:

Short term consultancies and production work with small business or individual agencies;
Community organizing and planning, ecovillage design, stakeholder inclusion facilitation;
Real and intellectual product and process brokering, syndication and project development services;
Management of broad public-private consortia, enterprise and public policy campaigns with a long term focus.

Selected Capabilities:

Consulting:

Communications and Information Strategy
Community Communications
Sustainable Community Development
Consortia Development and Management
Resource, Technology and Business Brokering and Referral Environmental Education
Project Management
Business and Organizational Development
Participatory Action Research
User needs assessment and systems design
For Profit and Non-Profit Fundraising
Development Campaign Management
Grantswriting and Proposal Development
Strategic Planning
Convergence Technologies
Media Management

Production and Applications:

Software Development Assessment & Referral
Technology Development Assessment & Referral
Videography
Television Series Development and Syndication
Radio Production and Management
Interactive Multimedia
Filmmaking
Distance Learning
Geographic Information Systems Applications
Web / E-Commerce Strategy, Design, Implementation
Community and Organizational Database Design

Sample Communicas projects include

Sustainable Communities Design / Media Synergy Network,
Media Democracy Convergence,
Community Communications Working Group
Congress / Coalition of Neighborhoods
Media Centers Network Collaborative
and a variety of web, television, radio and multi-media products, software and services.

Communicas focuses in community communications for cross-sectoral sustainable development. We have successfully undertaken projects in:

broadcast and interactive media production
business planning and brokering
community arts
community based research
community communications
community investment
community organizing
community planning and design
documentary production
energy policy
energy planning
environmental policy
facilitation
healthcare planning and policy
housing policy and development management
information standards
international governance
journalism and media
livelihoods
neighborhood communications
non-profit development and fundraising/grants
organizational development
participatory decision making
peacemaking
personal development
political campaign development and management
procurement systems for sustainability
social entrepreneurship
sustainable agriculture
sustainable business development
sustainable community design
sustainable community education
sustainable community indicators
telecommunications development and services
visioning and evaluation

-- and other areas of communications, policy and practice.