StrategyClear communicationsAnd funding channeled to where it matters most

Supporting the organizations doing the work on the ground. And helping donors maximize their impact dollars.

Blue Planet Contact helps environmental organizations and social entrepreneurs sharpen their strategy, tell their story with clarity, and secure the funding they need to protect the places and people that depend on them.

We also advise philanthropic funders committed to socially responsible land-based, coastal, and marine environmental protection. We help them identify impactful partners, vet opportunities, and map the landscape so that funding can move quickly to where it will do the most good. We are especially sensitive and experienced with managing Indigenous Peoples’ and Locally-led partnerships.

Services

Two pieces of the same puzzle

More than 20 years of nonprofit leadership, communications, and fundraising — applied on behalf of the organizations doing environmental protection work, and the funders who support them.

For Organizations

Strategic Planning & Leadership

Organizational strategy support shaped by two decades of hands-on experience on the ground, with stakeholders, and in leadership roles across environmental protection and social impact.

Communications Strategy & Assets

Messaging and campaign planning that helps you reach your target audience.

Capacity Building

Engaging teams in structured processes designed to strengthen management, inclusion, governance, and programmatic impact.

Grant Writing & Reporting

Compelling, well-researched proposals grounded in a deep understanding of the funding landscape and tailored to the funder's requirements.

For Funders

Philanthropic Advisory

Opportunity identification, partner vetting, and market analysis that helps funders allocate resources with confidence and purpose, not just urgency.

Ecosystem-level thinking: We read the field to spot where an additional funder’s capital would do the most to raise the impact of the sector overall.

Creating opportunities: We find promising leaders and back them with the funding and support to launch work that wouldn’t otherwise get off the ground.

Complex judgment: We help weigh the trade-offs behind a grant, such as whether the talent involved would find support elsewhere, and how the project fits into the wider ecosystem.

Coordination: We help judge whether a donor collaborative would add value in a given area and, if so, which organizations are best placed to join it.

Blue Planet Contact works with both funders and the organizations they support, which is what allows for genuine landscape-level insight. Active conflicts are disclosed and managed transparently.

Specialty Areas

Where the work happens

On-the-ground experience across four regions and program areas. Our work spans environmental protection, social advocacy, and campaigns; public-private partnerships; monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL); fiscal compliance and institutional grant reporting (USG, EU, multilateral funders); and event strategy and implementation at Conference of the Parties (COP).

North America Environmental Conservation United States & Canada
Africa Conservation & Social Entrepreneurship Sub-Saharan Africa
Rights-Based Tropical Forest Protection In support of Indigenous and Local communities in Latin America & the Congo Basin
Marine & Coastal ConservationEmerging focus New horizons

Blue Planet Contact works with US-based organizations, and with international organizations seeking US-based financing.

About

Kim Chaix

Kim Chaix has more than 20 years of senior leadership at the intersection of human rights and environmental conservation across Latin America, Africa, and the US.

Kim began his career as a journalist and documentary producer for outlets including National Geographic, PBS, ABC News, and Animal Planet, before turning to environmental conservation and philanthropy full-time.

Over the course of his career, Kim has held senior leadership roles at organizations including Rainforest Foundation US and Virunga Fund Inc., where he significantly grew philanthropic revenue and helped direct tens of millions of dollars in institutional and private funding to conservation and development programs. He also founded The Charcoal Project, a nonprofit expanding access to clean biomass energy across sub-Saharan Africa, and contributed to communications strategy and major land conservation efforts at The Nature Conservancy's New York chapter.

A native French and Spanish speaker, Kim grew up between France and Nicaragua. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his partner, their cat, and Sibo, a knucklehead Australian Shepherd. Outside of work, he sails and competes in triathlons.

Kim Chaix speaking at the United Nations Climate Change conference