Farallon Strategies is a catalytic partner to communities and organizations that want to take bold actions to address climate change and the resulting impacts on our communities. We collaborate with stakeholders across California and the United States to pilot, test, and/or scale initiatives. Our expertise is rooted in our diversity of experiences and passion for creating a better world.
Farallon Strategies launched in September of 2020 to activate emerging opportunities that support transformative change in climate and resilience governance, strategy, policies, programs, and projects in California and beyond. Incrementalism is no longer sufficient to drive the change we need to stabilize our climate and emerge a prosperous, equitable, and vibrant society for future generations. We help to spur innovation around climate change, sustainability, and resilience to transcend incrementalism.
Farallon strategies helps fill a gap in the management consulting and policy landscape – not only providing fee for service and extension of staff relationships – but also partnership, strategy, and capacity building. We help create and activate networks to drive transformative change in organizations and communities.
We look forward to working with you.
Farallon Strategies launched in September of 2020 to activate emerging opportunities that support transformative change in climate and resilience governance, strategy, policies, programs, and projects in California and beyond. Incrementalism is no longer sufficient to drive the change we need to stabilize our climate and emerge a prosperous, equitable, and vibrant society for future generations. We help to spur innovation around climate change, sustainability, and resilience to transcend incrementalism.
Farallon strategies helps fill a gap in the management consulting and policy landscape – not only providing fee for service and extension of staff relationships – but also partnership, strategy, and capacity building. We help create and activate networks to drive transformative change in organizations and communities.
We look forward to working with you.
Positive impact commitment
The purpose of Farallon Strategies is to create a material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole, from the business and operations of the Company. To provide a structured way to track progress on this mission Farallon Strategies, LLC is pursuing B Corporation status.
We acknowledge and seek to better educate ourselves on the forms of historic and present discrimination and oppression of marginalized groups, including women, people of color, indigenous people, disabled people, or any other groups that are often denied a voice in impactful decisions. We value deep listening, understanding, and are open to feedback from all communities we work with and engage. Farallon Strategies seeks to actively collaborate with tribal, national, state, regional, and local partners to achieve racial and environmental justice for all communities.
Farallon Strategies, LLC is committed to sustainability and has a goal of being carbon negative, meaning "activity goes beyond achieving net zero carbon emissions to...create an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
We acknowledge and seek to better educate ourselves on the forms of historic and present discrimination and oppression of marginalized groups, including women, people of color, indigenous people, disabled people, or any other groups that are often denied a voice in impactful decisions. We value deep listening, understanding, and are open to feedback from all communities we work with and engage. Farallon Strategies seeks to actively collaborate with tribal, national, state, regional, and local partners to achieve racial and environmental justice for all communities.
Farallon Strategies, LLC is committed to sustainability and has a goal of being carbon negative, meaning "activity goes beyond achieving net zero carbon emissions to...create an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."
The Farallon Strategies Team
The Farallon Strategies team is not just our staff, but also alliance partners that we trust as an extension of our own capacity. This trust has been established through years of working together in various capacities to support mutual missions around improving communities, addressing climate change, and coming together to solve vexing problems. For more on our partners and prior projects, visit our Partners and Projects page.
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Michael Mccormick, aicp
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Carolyn yvellez
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Michael McCormick, AICP is the Founder and President of Farallon Strategies, LLC, an advisory, policy, and management consulting firm based in Davis, California. He founded Farallon Strategies to support the creation of transformative solutions to reduce society's contributions to climate change and the needed resilience in communities to address the impacts of climate change. He has worked at the local, regional, state, federal levels, and in non-profit, business, and government. These perspectives allow him to see the interconnectedness of work across governance and organizations, and to help create the vision and strategy to affect change.
Michael served as the Senior Planning Advisor in Governor Brown's Office of Planning and Research, as a Deputy Associate Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President Obama, and currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Local Government Commission, Advisor to Resilient Cities Catalyst, Senior Fellow at Rincon Consultants, Mentor at 3rd Derivative, the Board President for the Cool Davis Foundation, a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum: Mountain Valley Chapter, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Michael is an instructor and visiting lecturer at various universities and institutes and teaches classes on climate change, land use, and resilience at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Organizations. For more on Michael, please connect with him on LinkedIn. |
Carolyn Yvellez is the Founding Associate of Farallon Strategies, LLC. As a passionate climate adaptation planner and resilience professional, Carolyn has experience working at the local, regional, and national level for non-profits, public, and private organizations. Skilled in project management, stakeholder engagement, and technical writing and analysis, Carolyn specializes in developing tools, frameworks and plans that assist communities in assessing their climate risk and develop strategies rooted in social equity. She is particularly passionate about advancing community resilience by scaling policies, programs, and projects that democratize local economies and build community wealth and social solidarity.
Prior to joining Farallon Strategies, Carolyn worked as a Senior Climate Analyst in a consulting and engineering firm where she assisted with the project management and preparation of municipal clients’ Climate Action and Adaptation Plans, Local Hazard Mitigation Plans, and Environmental Justice and Safety Elements of General Plans. Prior to her consulting work, she was a Fellow with the CivicSpark Governor’s AmeriCorps Initiative where she led the development of the South Bay's sub-regional climate adaptation plan. Carolyn began her career at the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative where she was the Project Manager for the Urban Adaptation Assessment, an innovative digital tool assessing risk and readiness of U.S. cities. For more on Carolyn, please connect with her on LinkedIn |
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