MBM Estuary Strategies is a NYC consultancy connecting workforce systems to infrastructure investment, aligning agencies, contractors, MWBEs, unions, and frontline communities so public capital creates lasting opportunity.
Two systems most firms treat separately. We work where they mix.
An estuary is where freshwater meets the tide, the most productive ecosystem there is, precisely because two systems meet. MBM works that same seam: where workforce and economic mobility meet the regulatory and physical reality of marine and stormwater infrastructure. We know how NYC government works, the agencies, the procurement, the politics, and the people, so we can move fast, cut through complexity, and find the partners who actually get things done.
Program design, curriculum, and employer partnerships targeting offshore wind, maritime, and coastal resilience sectors.
End-to-end program design connecting MWBEs, SDVOBs, and community organizations to public capital projects.
Public outreach strategy, facilitation, and coalition building with frontline communities, CBOs, and civic institutions.
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit compliance and stormwater management, with green infrastructure design support aligned to NYC agency standards.
Waterfront resilience strategy, coastal infrastructure advisory, and climate-risk community planning.
Public and philanthropic grant procurement for infrastructure and workforce initiatives, with $1.25M secured to date.
The Waterfront Pathways Program helps minority-, women-, and disadvantaged-owned firms win contracts in the blue and green economy. Matthew was its original administrator and now serves as a strategic advisor to MWBEs making that pivot, helping them get prequalified and connect to the offshore wind, maritime, and coastal resilience work reshaping the waterfront.
Chief advisor on strategy, partnerships, and development for this nonprofit training the next generation of metal fabricators and welders through art, public installation, and waterfront work.
Matthew works at the intersection of environmental policy, infrastructure, and community, helping agencies, nonprofits, and developers do the hard work of connecting capital to people. He built NYC Parks' MS4 stormwater compliance program from scratch, served on the city's Environmental Justice Interagency Coordinating Committee during that time, ran public engagement campaigns, designed workforce pipelines for waterfront industries, and secured over $1.25 million in grant funding.
He started MBM Estuary Strategies to do that work for partners who care about getting it right, advising contractors, clean energy developers, tech firms, and education startups on local hiring, cross-sector partnerships, and inclusive program design.
Tell us where development and water meet in your work, and we'll tell you how we'd approach it.