Clarity, strategy, and funding channeled where it matters most.

Consulting for the organizations doing the work — and the funders deciding where it goes.

Blue Planet Contact helps environmental and conservation organizations 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 conservation, social justice, and ancestral knowledge — helping them identify strong partners, vet opportunities, and map the landscape so that funding under pressure to move quickly still lands where it will do the most good.

Services

Two sides of the same landscape

22 years of nonprofit leadership, communications, and fundraising — applied on behalf of the organizations doing conservation work, and the funders who support them.

For Organizations

Communications Strategy

Messaging, campaign planning, and rebranding that helps your work land with the audiences who matter most.

Grant Writing

Compelling, well-researched proposals grounded in a deep understanding of the funding landscape.

Strategic Planning & Leadership

Organizational strategy shaped by two decades of hands-on experience in conservation and social impact.

For Funders

Philanthropic Advisory

Opportunity identification, partner vetting, and landscape mapping that helps funders allocate resources with confidence, not just urgency.

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

Deep, on-the-ground experience across four regions and program areas.

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 brings 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 conservation and philanthropy full-time.

At Rainforest Foundation US, he helped grow annual philanthropic revenue from $3.5M to $9M over seven years. As Director of Virunga Fund Inc., he grew the organization's annual budget from $250K to over $20M and helped steer more than $80M in institutional and private funding to conservation and development programs supporting 4 million people around Africa's oldest national park. He also founded The Charcoal Project, a nonprofit expanding access to clean biomass energy across sub-Saharan Africa, and helped shape TNC New York's communications strategy and its largest land conservation deal to date.