Maran Brainard Hilgendorf founded GreenSync Inc. in 2017 to continue her work helping the public be better stewards of the natural environment. Samples of past work are provided.
She is a seasoned communications and grant expert who has executed lean communications programs that engaged and empowered others to fulfill a common mission. She obtained and managed grants, allowing more and improved programs and events. She created communities of practice, publications, events from trainings to conferences, videos, online outreach using websites to digital newsletters to social media, allowing diverse audiences from the interested public, children, media, scientists, resource managers and policymakers to become better stewards. All this while being responsible for various grant making, administrative and business operations.
A few examples are provided on this page as is her resume. Contact maran@greensyncinc.org to learn more and request more examples.
Adventures in the Charlotte Harbor Watershed
Adventures in the Charlotte Harbor Watershed: A Story of Four Animals and Their Neighborhoods was published to help children in southwest Florida learn about the natural environment. For nine years it was give to 7 to 10 school districts who gave it to 18,000 children each year. Because of the popularity of the book, many created tools to make the book more useful. These tools included read-a-long videos (posted on YouTube), curriculum, art and more.
CHNEP 2017 calendar with Harbor Happenings
Calendar of beauty and diversity of the native, natural environment. Each year more than 200 people donated images that show the beauty and diversity of the native, natural environment in southwest Florida. Calendars were created from 2005 to 2017.
Harbor Happenings
Magazine provides environmental “happenings.” Publish 66 issues of quarterly 16-page color magazine, Harbor Happenings, for more than 4,000 subscribers and for distribution by nearly 30 partners.