Avins Consulting customizes its services to meet each client’s needs.
Read about representative projects.

Community-Managed Open Spaces

  • Collaborated with multiple stakeholders to create Baltimore City’s process to transfer land in community use to land trusts for $1 per lot.

  • Thirteen green spaces have been preserved in 12 neighborhoods.

Forest Patches

  • Worked with communities, academics, and city, state, and federal governments to establish urban forest patches as a category of ecosystem that is worthy of protection and study.

  • Results include legislation, protection of 2 forest patches, peer learning community, and academic studies.

Tax Sale Emergency Action

  • Provided guidance and and project management to prevent homes from being lost to tax sale.

  • Raised $26K and helped 26 homeowners in collaboration with neighborhood activists and issue experts.

Climate Change Seminar

  • Adapted 4 Elements framework to study climate change and oriented students.

  • Identified and scheduled diverse scientists and activists to speak to class.

Organizational Development

  • Worked with founders of innovative educational program to develop external and internal language, and to clarify thinking in several key areas.

  • Helped secure $250K funding from Baltimore City Public Schools.