Services

CPRA Strategies offers a comprehensive advocacy program for clients, including:

• Direct lobbying at the federal, local, and state levels
• Budget and discretionary funding advocacy
• Regulatory and rule-making advocacy
• Local land-use and zoning advocacy
• Testimony before legislative and regulatory bodies
• Grassroots strategies and coalition building
• Strategic planning and legislative program development
• Policy research, analysis, and monitoring
• California bill tracking

CPRA Strategies brings a wide-range of capabilities to help manage and grow your organization, including:

• Day-to-day operations support
• Financial oversight
• Event production and management
• Marketing and member communications programs
• Business development and non-dues revenue
• Social media management
• Strategic growth planning

Every year, federal, state, and local governments award billions in government contracts. CPRA Strategies can help you navigate the government procurement process from A to Z, including:

• Government contract research and identification
• Competitive profile and risk identification
• Pre-bid attendance, questions and answers
• Bid and proposal development
• Interview preparation
• Reporting and compliance
• Debrief and protest challenge

CPRA Strategies understands how critical grant funding is to many organizations. We provide on-call and on-going grant writing and management services, including:

• Grant research and identification
• Grant proposal development
• Grant award management and debriefs
• Grant reporting and compliance

CPRA Strategies offers project management office (PMO) services to ensure projects and key business initiatives are delivered on time and within budget. We help small businesses, startups and nonprofits implement and standardize project management processes, policies, and methods, including:

• Project planning and documenting project steps, scope, and milestones
• Project governance to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required standard
• Resource planning and scheduling, allocating resources to projects and forecasting future resource needs
• Resource optimization by reducing project resourcing costs
• Workflow management by managing changes to project scope, schedule, and budget
• Stakeholder management and communicating between project teams and business leaders
• Knowledge management by centralizing project-related information, such as status reports, risks, and project interdependencies
• Training and guidance: Offering training and guidance to the project team
• Project oversight and identifying problems that arise within projects and working to address them

CPRA Strategies offers a comprehensive public affairs program, including:

• Community outreach, engagement, and education campaigns
• Strategic communications planning and execution
• Media relations, pitching, editorial board interviews
• Comprehensive media training by former news reporter
• Crisis communications planning, training, and support
• Coalition building and mobilization
• Press release drafting and distribution
• Internal and external message development
• Reputation management