What We Do
We provide comprehensive strategic services that equip our clients to have the impacts they want in the communities they care about. We offer:
Quantitative and qualitative research, including feasibility studies, environmental scans, focus groups and key informant interviews, assessment reports, and more
Community planning, including creative placemaking, built environment and food systems development
Customized capacity building, training, and coaching
Public engagement campaign design and execution
Strategic communications campaign design and execution, including legislative advocacy, with a specialty in framing and messaging for impact
Strategic planning and organizational development
Coalition and partnership facilitation and cultivation
Publication drafting and design
Our clients often need complex, diverse, and substantial expertise and capacity. We design custom teams of experts based on project needs, who work with each other and our clients to provide the right mix of know-how for a specific effort.
Terra Soma team members have deep expertise at the intersection of food, health, agriculture, and community. We bring years of experience at working across difference, designing and delivering culturally competent services.
"We wanted local governments across the Twin Cities to include food access policies in their comprehensive plans. Terra Soma planning, communications, training, publication design, and engagement support reached every city in the metro area, resulting in 37 cities adopting healthy food access as a priority in their long term plans for development. We were effective, collaborative partners."
— Eric Weiss, WSB