What we do
Ideation and Brainstorms
It all begins with an idea. We love strong, out-of-the-box ideas in supporting the creative arts and our environment, and brainstorming what are the best paths to making those ideas become realities.
Research and Strategy
We’re well-versed in working with limited resources but great minds. Working with talented teams that have backgrounds and skill sets in design, design research, art, media, graphic design, moving image technology, engineering, prototyping, strategy, user and prototype testing, distribution, media platforms, media outreach, and community and municipal networks, our assembled teams have been able to come up with brilliant ideas in myriad areas at every stage—researching, strategizing, building, testing, prototyping, and implementing what’s needed for groundbreaking projects in creative sustainability.
Collaboration and Networks
Our biggest value is our networks, built upon years of past projects and strong relationships with people in sustainability, the creative arts, technology, education, public and private enterprise, and government. We know the power of working with people who have spent entire careers becoming the best at what they do, and we tap into that expertise to create magic in collaboration.
NETWORKS
Through multiple collaborations in the past decade and an extensive career in technology, the arts, urban culture, social impact, and journalism (and through her prior work as a Department Head in municipal government and serving as a director of multiple non-profits), Beltran has accumulated an extensive network with direct contacts for the clients and organizations listed below:
The City and County of San Francisco
The San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Planning Department
The San Francisco Department of Public Works
The San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department
The San Francisco Department of the Environment
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Unified School District
The Office of the Mayor for the City of San Francisco
The Office of California State Senator Scott Wiener
The Office of Governor Gavin Newsom
The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
The Treasure Island Development Authority
The Port of San Francisco
The U.S. Conference of Mayors [Appeared in lieu of Mayor Edwin Lee for the 2013 national conference] World Cultural Economic Forum
Renewable Energy Agencies ICLEI, Ren21, REEEP, CAN, World Climate LTD, the World Bioenergy Association, Nivela, the National Fuel Cell Research
Center, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Atelier Ten, eMotorWerks, the International Solar Energy Society, Olivine, and the Sierra Club
The Presidio Trust
The Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Recology
The University of California, Berkeley, Fine Arts Division
The University of California, Berkeley Law School
The University of California, Haas School of Business
Mills College Master of Fine Arts Program
The California College of the Arts
The Girls & Boys Clubs of San Francisco
The City Studio Youth Education Program
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
The San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Writers Grotto
CHI (Center for Healthcare Innovation)
Institute for the Future
Apple
Autodesk
Workday
Stochastic Labs
Kaiser Permanente
Illuminate and Zoon Engineering [Principal Engineer, Bay Lights]
San Francisco Design Week
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The M.H. de Young Museum
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The Museum of the African Diaspora
The Oakland Museum
The San Francisco Symphony
Swissnex
Open Austria
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office
Hong Kong Design Centre
The San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco Camerawork
Metropolis Magazine
Invisible Talks
SOMArts
The African American Art & Culture Complex
The Bayview Opera House
The Mission Cultural Center
The Cartoon Museum
The Urban School
HopeLabs
Leonardo
23andMe
Ideo.org
O+A Studio
Fern Design
The Center for Cultural Innovation
The Haas Foundation
The Surdna Foundation
The Kimball Foundation
The Long Now Foundation
The Minerva Foundation
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