What We Do
S2 unites strategy, technical depth, and on-the-ground relationships to help you move from vision to real-world impact.
Whether you're a government looking for a partner to turn strong policy into real-life results, an organization searching for your highest-leverage opportunity in a complex clean energy environment, or a funder looking to move capital where it matters most, we show up as true partners: sleeves rolled up, ready to work.
Policy Implementation
We guide governments and organizations through the full lifecycle of a policy—from analysis and design to on-the-ground deployment—ensuring your priorities become durable, real-world outcomes. Our team has extensive experience with alternative financing mechanisms, as well as clean energy project management and implementation, enabling us to utilize creative implementation levers to bring your policy to life.
Traversing Taxes
S2 helps administer the Washington State Clean Energy Tax Credit Assistance Program (WA CETCAP). This initiative, supported by the Washington State Department of Commerce, is designed to help local governments, tribes, nonprofits, and other tax-exempt entities navigate and take full advantage of clean energy tax credits, from education, to project development, to filing assistance.
Strategy Partners
We help governments, businesses, philanthropies, and nonprofits navigate the evolving clean energy landscape with clarity, working with teams to identify innovative solutions and act to move them forward. Our team has experience working with organizations to identify policies and actions that meet the urgency and complexity of the current moment.
Credible Collaborators
We have worked with several organizations to create innovative financing mechanisms, identified actions for stakeholders to accelerate clean energy deployment, supported leaders to increase their teams’ impact, and created unique and impactful public affairs products to ensure everyone knows about the impact of strong, effective policies.
Impact Assessment & Opportunity Mapping
We give organizations and foundations the analytical foundation to act decisively—identifying where public and private capital, policy environments, and mission intersect to unlock the highest-leverage opportunities.
Synergistic Success
We worked with the state of Michigan to design and launch the Detroit-based Michigan Climate Investment Hub, a public-private partnership that aims to foster relationships between the state of Michigan, private investors, commercial lenders, community lenders, community organizations, philanthropic organizations, and local government.
We'd love to support your team, too. Reach out today to see how we can work together.