Calvert Street Group

We're #hiring a new Operations Coordinator in Nashville, Tennessee. Apply today or share this post with your network.

We're celebrating a milestone at Calvert Street Group. Gates Weaver, Director of Industrial Development, joined the firm 8 years ago today. Gates is originally from Nashville and graduated from DePauw in 2016. After graduation, he worked on a number of political campaigns and for the Tennessee Titans. He has been a key organizer and leader for some of our most challenging projects. We're grateful for you!

Geoffrey Patterson, our Director of Renewables, is participating in a panel, Community Engagement in Renewable Energy Projects, at the Midwest Energy Policy Series conference this week. Along with Jonnathan Salazar of Invenergy, Geoff will describe why engaging communities early is vital for the success of renewable energy projects. If you're at the event, please say hi to any of our colleagues also attending: Matt Bailey, Patrick L., and Charlotte Mellow.

At Calvert Street, we create win-wins for our clients, communities, and people. We’re thrilled about three internal promotions announced last week that exemplify our commitment to nurturing our team’s growth and enhancing our service to clients and communities. These promotions reflect our ongoing dedication to recognizing and advancing talent from within our ranks, a practice we continually foster, creating opportunities for success for everyone on our team.

As students, teachers, and staff head back to the classroom for a new school year, Calvert Street wants to wish all learners and the people who support them a happy, healthy, safe, and productive year. We want to shout out two of our colleagues who are furthering their educations in grad school this semester: Sarah Tylutki and Wyatt Jackson. Kudos for reaching for your dreams!

This week, we're celebrating American Clean Power Week with American Clean Power Association (ACP)! Since 2009, Calvert Street Group has run community engagement campaigns responsible for the permitting and construction of over four gigawatts of renewable energy across the United States. Wind, solar, and storage are powering the U.S. economy and communities across America, and we are excited to be part of the national shift toward a more sustainable future. #ACPW24 #PowerTheEconomy bit.ly/ACPW24

We're #hiring a new Director of Digital in Nashville, Tennessee. Apply today or share this post with your network.

Calvert Street Group is an award-winning public affairs consulting firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. And while we take on a wide array of traditional work in this field—such as ballot measures and advocacy campaigns—we have become known as the national leader in building local support to win regulatory approvals to complete challenging land-use projects. In other words, we’re hired to fight #NIMBY and create meaningful public support to earn the necessary entitlements, permits, zoning changes, and other needed approvals to get projects completed. We’ve successfully done this for over 17 years and have won tough approvals for a wide variety of projects and industries, including major commercial, retail, and residential developments, wind and solar farms, landfills and quarries, sports stadiums, and much more. All in all, we have taken on nearly 500 engagements in 46 states and Canada. We do this through community engagement, on-the-ground organizing, building supportive coalitions, and controlling the message through strategic communications and targeted outreach. Put simply, we use a range of modern tools and boots-on-the ground activities to execute successful campaigns on behalf of our clients. Our successful track record has no equal. But our work at Calvert Street is more than just ordinary consulting. It’s about making a lasting impact on communities and industries across North America. As we continue to navigate complex land-use challenges and regulatory landscapes, as well as other demanding work in the public affairs space, we are committed to delivering results that exceed the expectations of our clients and contribute to the communities we serve. We are excited to continue building relationships across our network. Additional information can be found on our website.

It's always fun to get a trophy, and we recently received ours from Campaigns & Elections. We're proud of the work we did in 2023 that earned us recognition for Best Use of Humor in an Online Video, Best Field Program for a Bootstrapped Campaign, and Best Direct Mail Piece for a Ballot Initiative. We're grateful for our clients who engage us to do challenging projects where we get to bring the best ideas, effort, and execution to bear.

We threw, we swept, we cheered - Calvert Street staff enjoyed some friendly curling competition this week at Tee Line followed by food and fellowship. Turns out Darden Copeland, Ted Townsend, CTP, CAPM, and Mark Drury might be contenders for Team USA.