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Matt Taylor, doing business as the Context Group, consults with nonprofits and businesses to achieve sustainable site planning, organizational development, and program management.
Matt Taylor, doing business as the Context Group, consults with nonprofits and businesses to achieve sustainable site planning, organizational development, and program management.
Projects can involve land management, conservation and business planning, land use and permitting approvals, map-making, and community engagement. See Portfolio.
Projects can involve land management, conservation and business planning, land use and permitting approvals, map-making, and community engagement. See Portfolio.
Looking down from Columbia Hills State Park on 'Rain Shadow Ridge', a thirty-acre house and campsite acreage overlooking Swale Canyon in Klickitat County, WA (February 2022). Worked with owner to develop turn-key camping and sustainable living plan for rare grassland/native oak forest property.
View of Mt. Hood from central spot of planned Intensive Vegetable Production area located on 20 acre flatland. Surrounding pasture is 90+ acres completely fenced in. Carbon Farm (formerly Mt. Hood Farm) seeks to attract regenerative farmsteaders to graze and manage the land for profit, ecological gain, and public learning and recreation.
Work Approach
Work Approach
Leverage skills based in decades of operations leadership, landscape scale management, and the perpetual head scratching that comes from figuring out a range of land development, operational, and project management challenges.
Manage relationships with third-party vendors and other key actors (contractors, government officials, investors, etc.).
Know when to draw it on a napkin and when to hire the architects.
Matt Taylor
Matt Taylor
Matt Taylor is a strategic consultant and nonprofit leader with over 30 years of experience in outdoor education, recreation, and conservation.
Matt Taylor is a strategic consultant and nonprofit leader with over 30 years of experience in outdoor education, recreation, and conservation.
Matt leads innovative efforts and helps organizations balance economic and social uses with landscape scale conservation.
Matt leads innovative efforts and helps organizations balance economic and social uses with landscape scale conservation.
Matt's latest project is the Portland Botanical Gardens, where he has worked as Project Director and Executive Director, and now serves as Special Advisor to his successor, Scot Medbury.
Matt's latest project is the Portland Botanical Gardens, where he has worked as Project Director and Executive Director, and now serves as Special Advisor to his successor, Scot Medbury.
Matt successfully positioned the nonprofit to purchase the McCormick & Baxter Superfund site in Portland, Oregon.
Matt successfully positioned the nonprofit to purchase the McCormick & Baxter Superfund site in Portland, Oregon.
Prior to forming the Context Group, Matt served as Executive Director of Westwind in Oregon (2012-2020) and the Adventure Sports Center International in Maryland (2006-2012)
Prior to forming the Context Group, Matt served as Executive Director of Westwind in Oregon (2012-2020) and the Adventure Sports Center International in Maryland (2006-2012)
Matt is a two-time Olympian in whitewater slalom canoeing, graduate of Yale, and a life-long nature geek.
Matt is a two-time Olympian in whitewater slalom canoeing, graduate of Yale, and a life-long nature geek.
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