How Can We Help?
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Organizational Dashboard / Scorecarding
Smart Towns started assisting municipalities with converting publicly available and internal data into dashboards and scorecards. This important check on the health of the organization is critical to any smart community.
We can help at pbergen@smarttowns.ca
Project Management
Smart Towns has had the opportunity to work with municipalities and not for profit groups in Alberta and the Northwest Territories to deliver meaningful projects that have had positive impacts. To see past projects click here.
We can help at pbergen@smarttowns.ca
Grant Writing
Smart Towns have been successful writing grant applications for both municipalities and not for profit groups in Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Key factors to success are well defined budgets and workplans and a compelling definition of outcomes that are in alignment with grant funder requirements.
We can help at pbergen@smarttowns.ca
Messaging
Smart Towns has worked with municipalities and Not for Profits to deliver messaging through social media, websites and media releases. What do you want to say?
We can help at pbergen@smarttowns.ca
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