CBSM Contractors/Companies in Alberta

Hi Cheryl,

Although we have offices in Toronto and Halifax, we do work across the country. In fact, I gave a CBSM seminar in Edmonton earlier this year at the Waste: The Social Context conference (and in Saskatoon in the fall of 2007). We have provided CBSM surveying and research for the CRD in BC since 2006, and have worked in every province, in the UK and the Caribbean. We also have a partner in Alberta who we work with, if you feel you need someone local. Also, this year we worked on a large well maintenance research project with Well Aware in Ontario, to develop a better approach to fostering better awareness, understanding and maintenance of wells. That research included surveying people with wells, experts in wells, installers and farmers, with separate surveys for each sector. We would be pleased to receive your rfp.

Cheers,
Ken Donnelly

Lura Consulting

Here's a contact that might be what you want.

Pam's great! Contact Pamela Jull Pamela.Jull@arnorthwest.com

APPLIED RESEARCH NORTHWEST, LLC
www.arnotherwest.com
220 West Champion Street, Suite 280
Bellingham, WA 98225
Phone: 360.647.6067
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Applied Research Northwest is a social scientific research firm that produces high quality, socially relevant research at a reasonable cost. Through our careful and systematic data collection and proven research methodology we convert information into knowledge. We enable our clients to make accurate decisions that improve communities, services, and programs. Feel free to contact me or any of my associates to discuss our services.

Dr. Pamela Jull
Co-Founder and Manager

Dr. Jull is a Cornell University trained Sociologist and the Manager of Applied Research Northwest in Bellingham, WA. She is an expert in both qualitative research and quantitative advanced statistical processes and techniques with specialties in research methods, survey design, family and social policy, program evaluation and statistical analysis. Dr. Jull has conducted, coordinated and directed program evaluations and survey research for a wide variety of state and local agencies, as well as community non-profits, and health care organizations. She has been responsible for the production of state and national polls, community surveys, academic presentations and technical reports. As manager of Applied Research Northwest since January 1999, Dr. Jull is the owner and director of a social science research firm housing its own computer-aided-telephone interviewing call center. In that capacity, she has overseen project management, program evaluation, statistical methods and research design for a variety of health, education, environment and political research projects. This firm has four full-time employees and between eight and eighteen part time employees. >From September 2000 to June 2005, Dr. Jull served as Director of the Office of Survey Research at Western Washington University, leading consulting and project management for university-based assessment and accountability research and self-supporting research projects for local and state organizations. Projects included survey construction, research design, management and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, and report writing. As Research Associate in the Office of Survey Research, Dr. Jull assisted and managed projects for University-based assessment and accountability research. She directed self-supporting evaluation research projects for the Washington State Employment Security Department. As Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Washington University's Department of Sociology (1996 to 2000), Dr. Jull had full- and part-time teaching responsibilities for a variety of undergraduate and upper division courses including introductory and advanced statistics, the sociology of work, sociology of the family, and social policy research. Dr. Jull received her Ph.D. and Masters Degree in Sociology from Cornell University, Ithaca. Her B.A. degree, also in Sociology, was received at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC. (Cum Laude)

Hi Cheryl,

I am the Development and Evaluation Manager for a not-for-profit organization called One Change. Our mission is to empower people to believe that simple actions matter and to make smart energy choices in their daily lives. To do this, One Change delivers community-based social marketing campaigns, our most successful of which is Project Porchlight. Project Porchlight campaigns have operated in four provinces (Alberta being the largest) as well as two US states (New Jersey and Vermont). The One Change approach and our slogan "Simple Actions Matter" are amenable to a number of causes, including that of water conservation. One Change has in fact been in recent discussions with the Clean Water Foundation regarding potential campaign and program opportunities to promote residential water conservation. We have worked in conjunction with a variety of research firms to construct surveys that effectively measure barriers to adopting resource-conscious behaviours. We have extensive experience in Alberta since we have delivered a province-wide campaign on energy efficiency to the province in two phases, while measuring the impact of the campaign along the way. Our campaigns were found to be extremely successful across all types of Alberta communities, influencing the attitudes as well as the behaviour of residents engaged. I would be happy to discuss our process of recruiting evaluation firms to conduct our research and would be very interested in partnering with you in order to share experiences in researching barriers, overcoming them through effective messaging, and measuring their impact. In any case, we look forward to hearing more about Calgary District's upcoming plans to roll out water-related community-based social marketing campaigns. As a result of our Project Porchlight campaign in Alberta, we have developed relationships with more than 3,500 volunteers and 300 community groups all across the province who are eager to contribute to the next One Change. These are resources that we believe would definitely be of value to your project. Please keep in touch and be sure to consider us for both RFPs as we would welcome the opportunity to work with Calgary District on this project.

All the best,
Lisa Hatina

Development and Evaluation Manager
One Change
68 Chamberlain Avenue, Suite 200
Ottawa, ON K1S 1V9
phone (613) 232-5892 x211
fax (613) 232-9504
lisa@onechange.org