Technical Advising & Consulting Services


Rethink Local offers transparent, flat-rate, creative, expert consulting and technical advising services for municipalities and nonprofits.

Our work will not just help you reach your goals. We will build the internal capacity of your organization and external capacity of your community and civic ecosystem.


Why is Rethink Local different?


Our purpose is public good

Community impact is our reason for existing. It is our number one goal, and why we are organized as a public benefit corporation and work with our sister organization Rethink Local Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

We are dedicated to the communities we work in, and will always put purpose above profit.

We are rigorous & evidence-based

Our ideas and expertise have been developed and vetted through a combination academic study, real-world implementation, and a dynamic community of practitioners.

We bring insights from dozens of organizations across all sectors, and many countries, regions, and states.

Read what our clients are saying below!

Our practitioners are passionate

Rethink Local’s practitioners routinely develop and further their skills through work with others, such as through International City/County Management Association, Municipal Management Association of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Municipal Association, Vermont League of Cities and Towns, Municipal Solutions Summit and many informal and small group networking and workshops.


What does Rethink Local offer?


Recruitment and retention

From comprehensive updates to wage scales to hiring and recruitment, to employee retention, to support in negotiating new collective bargaining contracts, we can help you navigate the path ahead as smoothly as possible so you can set your workforce up for success.

Town Administrator/Manager Search, Interim, and transition support

With deep experience helping organizations through senior leadership transitions, we can provide Interim Manager/Administrator services. We can keep the trains running on time while we help you flesh out key challenges and opportunities that can help empower your new Board and Manager for years of success that would have been impossible to achieve without a structured, phased transition.

Technology and AI

Whether you want to assess your current IT systems or understand how to integrate AI (Or not) into how your organization works, we have the expertise to help you best meet your technology goals.

Board strategic planning and onboarding

Ranging from helping you design or facilitate your nonprofit or local government’s board retreat/goal-setting, implementing a town-wide annual board and committee training, or reviewing your onboarding process, we can leverage a wide range of best practices that you can use to create forward-looking, collaborative boards that work well together.

Public outreach and trust building

Whether you need assistance in designing a communications plan or template that you can give to each department, want to run a deep volunteer engagement campaign to identify unknown community leaders and finally fill all of your board/committee vacancies, or find ways to build engagement around upcoming decisions or bring more people out to Town Meeting, we can provide the strategies, tactics, and tools to help bring you and your community closer together.

A range of technical expertise

Whether you need assistance on economic/community development, human resources and employee retention, capital planning, grants, facility analysis, volunteer recruitment, technology implementation, regionalization/shared services, sustainability, transportation and mobility, or land conservation we can offer flat rate technical advising to support your government or nonprofit’s goals.


Curious to learn more what we can do for you?

Our pricing is based in part on town/budget size and certain programs can be funded through grant and philanthropic funds, so don’t let that stop you from accomplishing great things.

Who has Rethink Local worked with?

  • Interim Town Manager – Rockingham and Bellows Falls, Vermont – 2026
  • Town Manager Recruitment – Hartford, Vermont – 2026
  • Compensation Study and Pay Scale Creation – Moultonborough, New Hampshire – 2026
  • Compensation Study and Pay Scale Creation – Williamstown, Vermont – 2026
  • Compensation and Salary Study – Enfield, New Hampshire – 2026 and 2025
  • Capital Improvement Plan and Asset Inventory – Hartford, Vermont – 2026
  • Wastewater/utility Recruitment – Waterville Valley, New Hampshire – 2026
  • Town Manager Recruitment – Waterville Valley, New Hampshire – 2026
  • Contracted Director of Planning, Zoning, Regional Partnerships – Randolph, Vermont – 2025-2027
  • Interim Town Administrator and Town Administrator Search – Swanzey, New Hampshire – 2025
  • Interim Town Administration Consultation and Town Administrator Search – New Boston, New Hampshire – 2025
  • Town Administrator Search and Transition Services – Westford, Vermont – 2025
  • Selectboard onboarding workshop design – Vermont League of Cities and Towns – 2025
  • Selectboard work plan/planning workshop facilitation – Hartford Vermont and Vermont League of Cities and Towns – 2025
  • Strategic Plan Facilitation and Development – Chandler Center for the Arts – 2025
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