Team Verdis 2024, Wrapped!
2024 was an exciting year for Team Verdis! As we expand our impact and continue living our mission to co-create a thriving and resilient world for generations to come, we’ve added three new full-time employees to the team. They’ve helped increase our capacity and expand our expertise to bring transformative climate solutions to our partners.
Highlights for our team are below; to read our client-focused year in review, click here.
Check out our new Impact Dashboard!
As a certified B Corp, Verdis Group prizes transparency. From employee engagement to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, we are always striving to progress on our social and environmental goals.
To share our progress on our goals, earlier this year we announced our very own key indicator dashboard! This interactive dashboard allows you to explore our organization’s emissions, staff engagement, customer satisfaction, B Corp standing, and community work.
2024 Milestones
Leadership Award from Greater Omaha Chamber
We’re honored to have been recognized with a Business Excellence Award in Leadership from the Greater Omaha Chamber. Our purpose is to create a thriving, resilient world, and we know our people are the most critical ingredient to our success. That means we focus on developing people, setting high standards, and leading by example. We’re thrilled to be among the excellent local organizations recognized by the Chamber this year!
LOVErdis Nonprofit of the Year: Nemours Children’s Health
Nemours Children’s Health (Nemours Children’s) was selected as the fourth annual LOVErdis winner. This program was created by Verdis in 2019 as a way to share our team’s talent with a deserving community organization to tackle some of its biggest sustainability challenges for free.
Paul Qvale, Manager of Integrated Facility Design for Nemours Children’s, said the organization’s work on sustainability grows every day.
“Nemours is excited to participate in the LOVErdis project. Our work at Nemours Children’s continues to move Well Beyond Medicine. Our goal is to help children everywhere grow into healthy adults, and to do this we support building healthy communities. Accelerating our sustainable practices and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is right in line with our basic mission.”
Paul Qvale, Manager of Integrated Facility Design, Nemours Children’s Health
Nemours Children’s GHG inventory was completed in October 2024. We’re looking forward to continuing the LOVErdis program into 2025. Nonprofits, keep an eye out for the open application in early spring!
2024 marked 15 years of Verdis Group!
We were thrilled to celebrate our 15th anniversary last year. Ever since Verdis started as just an idea in a coffee shop in 2009, our mission has been to create a thriving and resilient world through climate action that counts. Since then, we’ve:
- Worked with over 100 organizations across the country in multiple industries
- Earned B Corp Status
- Helped set over 40 Net Zero and other reduction goals including waste and water
When these targets are met, over half a million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions will be avoided in 2050 alone. That amount is equivalent to the energy use of 71,435 homes for one year!
Meet our newest team members!
We welcomed three new team members in 2023. Meet the rest of the team here!
Erin LeFever
Erin, joining Verdis as an Associate in September, brought with her a wealth of experience as Regenerative Program Manager at the Seattle Aquarium. There, she led the implementation of its Regenerative Plan, connecting staff across every department to create a regenerative culture while working towards goals. She’s been excelling in her role by helping our partners align their climate efforts through goal-setting and integrating sustainability and climate action throughout the organization, providing transformative impacts as they reduce their GHG emissions and increase their positive impact.
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Chantal Portes
After displaying her knowledge and skills as an intern at Verdis in 2023, Chantal has been invaluable ever since starting her role as an Analyst on the data team. Her expertise lies in creating greenhouse gas inventories and other tools for sustainability projects, as well as supporting project teams in delivering useful information to clients by conducting thorough research and creating deliverables. Read More
Grace Whipkey
Grace began at Verdis in May, joining our data team as an Analyst. She brings a passion for finding creative solutions to climate-related challenges and ensuring communities are equipped with the tools to thrive in a constantly evolving world. She’s already made a splash at Verdis by distilling large volumes of client data to create greenhouse gas inventories and other tools to gather meaningful insights and track progress toward sustainability goals. Read More
Our Year in Photos