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Navigate rather than eliminate challenges. See choices clearly and make difficult decisions with informed confidence.
what we offer
Leadership consulting helping changemakers thrive.
Potrero Group serves leaders across sectors who are shaping a better future. Our clients are committed to long-term change that serves future generations. We invigorate organizations with new perspectives and strategies, ensuring our clients stay effective, relevant, and resilient over time.
Potrero Group excels at pulling together disparate pieces of information: surveys, literature review, different sources of information, and putting it into a coherent, comprehensible statement of what’s going on right now.”
how we work
We understand our clients' unique challenges and opportunities; for us this is a driving passion.
We take on only a limited number of clients at a time and give them our complete focus and attention. We work as a team and are dedicated to achieving the highest quality results.
who we work with
Our focus is on supporting innovative leaders and organizations making a difference in the world.
We understand the power of networks and relationships. Our team routinely navigates complicated private, public, and nonprofit alliances. We have long-standing relationships with foundations, social enterprises, and game-changing innovators across the country.
Clients
- Alaska Geographic Association
- American Rivers
- Audubon Delta
- Big Bend Conservancy
- Cabrillo National Monument Conservancy
- California Council of Land Trusts
- California League of Park Associations
- Catoctin Forest Alliance
- Center for Ecoliteracy
- Center for Food Safety
- Center for Plant Conservation
- Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership
- Chabot Space and Science Center
- City of Sonoma
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Crystal Cove Conservancy
- East Bay Environmental Network
- Eastern National
- Forever Balboa Park
- Friends of Anacostia Park
- Friends of Cedar Mesa
- Friends of the Smokies
- Friends of Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Gateway Arch National Park
- Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
- Grand Canyon Conservancy
- Grand Teton Association
- Groundwork DC
- Groundwork USA
- Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
- Hispanic Access Foundation
- Jefferson National Parks Association
- Lincoln Presidential Foundation
- Local Government Commission
- MarinCAN
- MCE (Marin Clean Energy)
- National Forest Foundation
- National Outdoor Leadership School
- National Park Foundation
- National Park Service (Washington Support Office)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- National Wildlife Federation
- Nature Fund National Parks
- Open Space Institute
- Outdoor Afro
- Pacific Historic Parks
- Park City Scholars
- Parks California
- Peckerwood Garden Conservation Foundation
- Peninsula Open Space Trust
- Pulse Point
- Redwood Parks Conservancy
- Resources Legacy Fund
- Rock Creek Conservancy
- S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
- San Francisco Bay Joint Venture
- Sempervirens Fund
- Sequoia Parks Conservancy
- Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
- Sonoma Land Trust
- Western National Parks Association
- Western Rivers Conservancy
- Zion National Park Forever Project
Innovation means looking for solutions beyond the known—seeing past the status quo to find an entirely new way to approach a challenge.
our team
Our skill at distilling complex concepts and research into understandable, actionable plans, reports, and tools is demonstrated by our body of work.
Our team has spent many years analyzing and evaluating organizations and programs from the nonprofit, government, and for-profit industries. We have sophisticated expertise in research methods, data collection approaches, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and modeling. We are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and regularly work on projects nationwide.
Advisory Council
The Potrero Group Advisory Council is a group of industry-leading professionals providing guidance, expertise, and opportunity to enhance the quality and impact of the work we provide.
Collaboration has been around forever, but there is now a changing understanding of what that means. We must work together in networks. If an organization can position itself in the context of what others are doing, they can have bigger impact.”
your results
We value and embrace cross sector collaboration.
Our team has worked closely with large and small organizations from national park units to regional governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, and hospitals. We have deep experience in public-private partnerships and actively lecture and write about social enterprises. Click on one of the images below to read a case study of one of our projects or download one of our reports.