Council Fire is excited to announce that the renowned Dr. Rod Fujita is joining the Council Fire team, bringing his extensive skills and tremendous experience to the benefit of our clients. Dr. Fujita’s accomplishments are legion.

As a purpose-driven company committed to equity in every aspect of our business – Council Fire is delighted to welcome diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) expert, Gabrielle Roffe, as a Project Manager to the team.

Celebrating 13 years as a B Corp and early adopter of the business for good framework.

Thriving partnerships translate into a thriving Masonville Cove ecosystem.

Our first Future Leaders Program (FLP) member, Jacob Rosenzweig-Stein, is shining brightly. Council Fire is proud to see Jacob’s matriculation from an intern to a research analyst in our inaugural FLP cohort.

Council Fire is impactful every day redefining profit by working to combat climate change and systemic inequity and driving improvements in the economic and social health of our communities.

It’s “Now or Never” in the Effort to Create a Sustainable Future

Robert Etgen joins Council Fire to drive large-scale change for clients and communities as an impact-focused consultant on the Economic Development Team.

As part of its mission to employ the industry’s brightest minds, Council Fire is thrilled to welcome Jill Tapley Stevenson to its team of consultants to provide expertise in ocean conservation and biodiversity, climate change, fisheries, stakeholder engagement, and natural resources management.

Last week I talked about how investing in yourself by paying off your credit cards was the single best local investment opportunity. It’s risk free, generates a 15-20% annual return, and ultimately saves you from Debtors’ Hell. This week I want to suggest that you do the same for the people you care about. Invest in your kids and friends by cutting up their credit cards as well. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander and all the other people who flock around you.

20 years ago, Council Fire was born out of a vision of organizations melding pursuit of financial profit with a purposeful drive to improve the lives of others and restore our environment. Convinced that unconceived alliances were needed and future successes would be measured against multiple bottom lines, this new kind of global change agency emerged. One of the founding members of the B-Corp movement, Council Fire remains at the forefront of this new approach to building long-term value for local, regional, national, and global communities.

As 2020 starkly revealed, today’s world is one of complexities, inequities, and deep structural challenges. Political extremism, economic instability, growing wealth inequality, and severe climate change impacts are all compounding factors, but increasingly the world is understanding that racism sits at the center of virtually all of these issues. Regardless of what you most care about - climate change, public health, education, human rights - without progress on racial justice, we cannot progress on any other front.

As a purpose-driven social enterprise, Council Fire is simultaneously focused on changing behavior and producing results for our clients at the organizational level and at scale. But we know that embodying the ideas we help our clients reach for is the best way to forge a path to the future. As part of our commitment to sustainability and carbon neutrality, we are continuously working to reduce our carbon footprint.

Over the past several years, the near and long-term impacts of climate change have come into sharp focus and it is clear that no business sector will be spared the negative consequences. This reality is front and center for Council Fire and the B Corp community as a whole as we work to build sustainable and equitable economic, environmental and social systems in the face of a rapidly changing climate.

20 years ago, Council Fire was born out of a vision of organizations melding pursuit of financial profit with a purposeful drive to improve the lives of others and restore our environment. Convinced that unconceived alliances were needed and future successes would be measured against multiple bottom lines, this new kind of global change agency emerged.