Policy and Stakeholder Outreach

Policymakers are a critical audience for nonprofit organizations—one that is often overlooked. We help clients craft messages to educate policymakers about their issues, and help organizations target those messages and engage the right people at the right time. Most importantly, we will help position our clients to maintain relationships with policymakers long after their work with us has ended.

Our policy efforts involve regular contact with Congress, the executive branch, state and local officials, interest groups, professional associations, and think tanks. Our services include:

  • Advising nonprofits on how and when to engage with policymakers around their work
  • Developing and executing specific strategies for working with policymakers, as well as the key stakeholders and advocates that influence the policy process
  • Translating research and other materials into policy-relevant products, such as issue briefs, one-pagers and testimony
  • Facilitating one-on-one meetings with policymakers and key stakeholders
  • Organizing small- and large-scale briefings and other policy forums
  • Hosting in-person or online workshops that teach nonprofits how to engage policymakers
  • Disseminating research and other information to targeted policy audiences

Improving Treatment of Chronic Pain

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Improving Treatment of Chronic Pain

Research shows that serious, chronic pain is the primary reason most Americans seek medical treatment, but intense public and political scrutiny of pain treatments, particularly prescription narcotics, has forced many patients to live with crippling pain unnecessarily. Many patients believe pain, as a side effect of injury or disease, must be tolerated rather than controlled with medications, while some doctors and nurses feel they must err on the side of under-prescribing powerful narcotics for fear of legal prosecution.

Policies to Help Teens in Trouble

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Policies to Help Teens in Trouble

Research shows that young people who use drugs or alcohol are much more likely to get into trouble with the law. The U.S. juvenile justice system currently holds more than two million teens – as many as four out of five of them have drug or alcohol problems.

Yet alcohol and substance abuse problems among America's youth frequently go undetected. Many young people end up back on the street, caught in a vicious cycle of drugs, alcohol, and crime that they don't know how to escape.

What do they need? More treatment. Better treatment. More than treatment.

Restoring Science to its Rightful Place

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Restoring Science to its Rightful Place

In the late 1990s, the U.S. Congress helped launch, through funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a renaissance in American medical discovery. During the renaissance, human genome sequencing was completed, powerful new research tools suddenly made the impossible seem possible, cancer and other disease rates began to decline as better diagnoses and treatment options were identified, and the potential to transform medicine seemed limitless.

Giving Choice Back to People with Disabilities

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Giving Choice Back to People with Disabilities

Many of us take for granted the basic human right to direct our own daily lives: deciding for ourselves when to get up in the morning or go to bed at night, when to take a shower, and when and what to eat. But until recently, people with disabilities who receive Medicaid-funded personal assistance with these types of daily activities have not had much say in how or when those services are provided, or even who provides them.