**Types of processes that projects may seek to generate or contribute to:** 

* Relationship building (see section on audiences, below)
* Awareness raising / education
* Community organizing / mobilizing
* Producing media coverage
* Getting media coverage
* Making an issue a focus of an electoral campaign season
* Pressuring electeds to act on an issue
* Providing public input to established regulatory processes such as permitting for land uses that are continuing, changing, or new.
* Providing cover to regulators so they can stand up to political/economic influence over an agency's action (Example: showing proof of valid grounds to sue the government agency for not acting)
* Triggering agency investigation, administrative action, and/or enforcement action
* Designing regulation in situations where there is none
* Mediation
* Litigation against industry
* Litigation against government agencies
* Nonviolent direct action



**Types of audiences projects may seek to reach:** 

* Others who are affected
* Neighbors who are also constituents
* Landowners making private land use decisions
* Elected representatives
* Agency civil servants
* Industry employees, management, ownership, or board of directors
* Journalists
* Environmental lawyers