EnviroSoup
Meri McCormick is founder of EnvirosoupTM, a consulting firm that helps businesses, families and individuals develop sustainability policies and practices for today's world. Her goal is to help clients develop sustainable solutions and approaches that meet their and society's needs, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. This is accomplished through a conscious process of: 1. Assessing your current environmental impact and ways of operating 2. Developing a viable sustainability plan 3. Designing a marketing/living plan to highlight your commitment and 4. Establishing benchmarks and measurable goals.
Meri is also a highly skilled writer, marketing, graphic design, public relations and nonprofit program manager. Her 15 years of strong community building and public relations skills, have resulted in dynamic local and national programs for the Mayor’s Office of Seattle, the University of Denver and numerous non-profit organizations. Meri has designed and coordinated over a hundred major fundraising and promotional events. One such event, the African Extravaganza at the University of Denver, grew in popularity from a campus event into a city-wide event with over 5,000 people attending to celebrate Black History Month in Denver.
As Executive Director of Canine Partners of the Rockies, Meri created a nationwide disability educational program with the Girl Scouts of America. The program won the 2007 Denver Disability Program Award and skyrocketed the non-profit into the national spotlight. She was an AmeriCorps volunteer working with the City of Seattle to coordinate city-wide intergenerational programs and also won the March of Dimes Volunteer of the Year award two years in a row for raising public awareness and funding for the prevention of birth effects. To further this goal, Meri created and taught a nationwide Speaker’s Bureau Training helping volunteers spread the March of Dimes mission.
She also has designed and written a number of leadership and program curricula, resource manuals, grants, trainings, newsletters and marketing materials for clients in the Denver and Seattle area. Her recently finished memoir, Twenty-Seven Feet, poignantly reveals the perils of becoming an executor while contending with a family ravaged by greed, secrets, and revenge.
Having owned, remodeled, and sold over 30 residences, Meri has provided residential and commercial real estate companies with strategies for reaching their target audiences. And the launch of Envirosoup is the natural outgrowth of her passion for creating and living in healthy, simple spaces. As a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor, she encourages businesses to operate in ways that solve, rather than contribute to, environmental and social problems. Recently chosen to be a member of President’s Task Force on Sustainability at Antioch University, Meri is utilizing her whole systems approach to help the University achieve its ten year Climate Action Plan of being carbon neutral by 2020.
Meri is a member of Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Antioch Alumni Association, OSR Alumni Association, Sustainable Builders Advisors and is a consultant for CARE USA's strategic plan project. She also is a past member of the boards of the Denver Art Museum and March of Dimes.