New Fundamentals is a people powered campaign consultancy firm. We work with membership-based organizations, Native Nations, and funders to win campaigns and build movements. No matter the size of your team now, we work with you to ensure your organization is equipped to accomplish your goals. We leverage our proven campaign framework, methods, and decades experience, to help your organization achieve real, measurable and durable change – even after our contract ends.
Claire Douglass is a seasoned leader with over 20 years of experience in the climate and energy campaign and movement building space. She has an impressive track record in winning issue campaigns and building diverse coalitions at the national, state and local levels. As the former National Campaigns Senior Director at the Audubon Society, Claire spearheaded successful climate and clean energy initiatives across various states, leveraging bipartisan support to not only win the campaign but make them durable to the political swings under different administrations.
During her tenure at Oceana, Claire demonstrated her ability to lead large coalitions and matrixed teams to develop and execute comprehensive strategies to reverse the decision to expand Offshore Drilling under the Obama and Trump administration. Notably, rallying support and building political power from a diverse array of stakeholders including coastal Mayors, numerous business alliances representing over 40,000 businesses, recreational and commercial fishing industry associations, and hundreds of coastal communities. Claire's hands-on experience leveraging grassroots, grass-roots, coalitions, expertise, legal, legislative, media and communications equipped her to win policy victories faster and once thought impossible.
Now, as the founder of New Fundamentals, a consultancy firm specializing in campaign strategy and building people power for durable change, Claire continues to apply her expertise to help clients drive societal change. With her proven track record of success and unwavering dedication to a people powered approach to movement building, Claire continues to support clients to make significant contributions at scale.
She lives in her hometown of Washington D.C. with her beloved husband she met at a billiards league, their 5 year old daughter who loves the music video Thriller, elephants and space.
