An independent consulting practice for organizations that need to understand how work gets done, develop a program, or turn a project idea into a funding proposal.
Explore what we doOur approach draws on experience in both research and business operations. We focus on how teams share information, how programs are put together, and what it takes to move a project from an idea to a plan.
We document how teams collect, manage, and share information, and identify where handoffs or inconsistent practices make it harder for others to use.
We turn an initial idea into a program plan with defined objectives, activities, and ways to evaluate progress.
We help shape the scope of a project and write funding proposals that connect the proposed work to the funder's requirements.
Statewide research initiative
CAPTIVATE KY is building a statewide platform to make climate data easier to share. Canopy is mapping how university researchers collect, manage, and prepare data for analysis to understand where those workflows make it difficult for other teams to reuse the data.
About CAPTIVATE KYKentucky State University
Working with Dr. Suraj Upadhaya, Chantal designed the framework for a 15-credit undergraduate sustainability certificate and wrote most of the NSF HBCU-UP proposal. NSF awarded Kentucky State University approximately $400,000, and program development is underway.
University announcementCanopy’s work also includes designing a survey on barriers to agroforestry adoption and developing the curriculum for a proposed study-abroad program in Nepal.
Founder and Principal Consultant
Chantal Tumpach is the founder and principal consultant of Canopy Global Resources. She brings the discipline of a finance professional, the curiosity of a researcher, and the practical judgment of someone who has led changes to how organizations work. She is equally at home working through the details of a financial transaction and stepping back to understand how information, decisions, and responsibilities move across an organization.
Over more than a decade in accounting and finance operations, Chantal managed cash and financial reporting for businesses with multiple entities. When those businesses grew or acquired other companies, she helped bring accounting, billing, and payroll systems together. That work gave her a close view of how formal procedures play out across teams with different responsibilities.
She brought the same interest in how rules work in practice to her research in natural resources. Her work examined how landowners, businesses, and public agencies applied sustainability standards and what made them easier or harder to adopt. She holds a master’s degree in sustainable forestry and natural resources from the University of Georgia and pursued doctoral studies in forest policy and economics at Oregon State University. At Canopy, she draws on both backgrounds to assess workflows, design programs, and develop funding proposals.
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