Summerhill Impact

About

Who we are
Summerhill Impact is a not-for-profit organization that means business. We’re entrepreneurs to the core, hustling to ensure our partners and funders get a good return on investment.

Since 2000, Summerhill Impact has delivered many of Canada’s largest and most successful environmental public engagement campaigns and has encouraged significant behavioural change by making better environmental choices easy for consumers, allowing them to contribute to a sustained, positive, and measurable impact on the environment.

We’re also recognized for our research and analytics capabilities as well as our access to key stakeholders in a variety of different sectors. We apply our acute awareness of the Canadian market place with our practical knowledge of real world dynamics to engage the public and drive environmental policy. With our solutions-oriented approach, you can be sure that Summerhill Impact will develop a program strategy that meets your objectives and surpasses all expectations.

What we do

We engage the public through information and empowerment and generate measurable, tangible results for the environment. We do this by developing market-based approaches with incentives to solve identified issues. We build strategic partnerships with public, private and not-for-profit organizations with a vested interest in what we’re trying to solve.

We partner with retailers, utilities, government, manufacturers and associations to address complex environmental problems through the creation of turn-key strategies and initiatives that move the market toward sustainability. The relationships we forge allow diverse groups to collaborate who would not traditionally work together. This expands our reach to deliver the breakthrough results that positively impact both our clients’ businesses and the environment.

Our strategic approach involves:

Identifying environmental issues and developing program models around consumer products and services
Building strategic partnerships with public, private and not-for-profit organizations with a vested interest in the issue
Developing a market-based approach and incentives that will lead to maximal success and significant environmental improvements
Engaging the public to make better choices through information and empowerment
Generating measurable results that improve air quality and protect the climate

Summerhill Impact works within the following areas, among others:

Public engagement and outreach initiatives that address policy and environmental priorities
Exploring the most important environmental issues facing your organization and engaging the key stakeholders involved

Our Impact

6,000+

tonnes of emissions reduced and prevented.

$3.4 mil

raised for various charities.

545,000

mercury-containing switches & thermostats recovered.

2,180

businesses are registered program participants.

*Figures since 2000