Amplify Your Impact

Our Government Affairs practice is led by Ashley Martinez, a California-registered lobbyist with 17 years of experience advocating at the federal, state, and local levels.

We have deep expertise in the California State Budget process, the federal appropriations process, and the legislative and rulemaking procedures involved in introducing, amending, and enacting laws and regulations.

As a value-added service, we provide comprehensive lobbying and budget advocacy training to equip clients and their teams with the skills to effectively advance their priorities at city hall, in the state legislature, in Congress, and within the executive branch.

Our practice focuses on relationship-building, direct lobbying, coalition development, and policy tracking and analysis, with specialized knowledge of the California legislative process.

Our grant writing practice is led by Ashley Martinez, who has secured over $100 million in discretionary and formula grants over the past decade. We specialize in building relationships with grantmaking foundations and government agencies, conducting grant opportunity research, and developing compelling applications.

In addition to grant writing, we offer grant management services to help you comply with the grant requirements and demonstrate results.

To enhance efficiency, we utilize proprietary in-house proposal development software, ensuring a streamlined and effective grant writing process.

When needed, we also leverage a trusted network of experienced grant writers to support proposal development.

Led by Ashley Martinez, who has secured over $100 million in government contracts in the last decade, we focus on relationship building with government agencies, pre-bid meetings, RFx proposal development, competitor analysis, vendor partner identification and qualification, and post-award and debrief representation.

To improve efficiency and maximize competitiveness, we utilize proprietary proposal development software, enabling us to create high-quality submissions. When additional support is needed, we tap into our trusted network of experienced proposal writers to ramp up, as needed.

Our Strategic Communications practice is led by Susana Franco, a bilingual, two-time Emmy Award-winning former journalist with 20 years of experience in community outreach and media relations.

The principals in our firm have led comprehensive, multi-channel advocacy campaigns, integrating communications plans, in-person public outreach, media relations, and marketing strategies to achieve success for clients.

As a value-added service, we provide comprehensive media training to help clients excel in news media interviews.

Our practice focuses on media relations and press strategy, crisis and issue management, community engagement, and digital and social media.

We believe the best decisions are made when the most voices are heard. Our team employs every tool we can to ensure equitable engagement is attainable and sustainable in every project and woven into the fabric of each public engagement strategy.

By gathering community perspectives and utilizing these perspectives in decision-making, projects and public policy initiatives are more likely to have community buy-in and succeed.

CPRA Strategies works with state and local governments, non-profits, planners, and engineering firms to conduct outreach to area stakeholders, reach underserved populations through innovative methods, and provide the public with understandable information.