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Selected outcomes from Erika's work at ELY and in national advocacy.

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Community outreach

Market Street Bridge Trail, Steubenville, OH

ELY partnered with the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission to lead public outreach for trail infrastructure along the Market Street Bridge, completing a segment of the Industrial Heartland Trails network.

Community outreach campaigns Source

Federal grants

Champaign-Urbana MTD wins TIGER

Through T4America's technical assistance program, CUMTD secured a competitive TIGER grant for complete streets serving pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders. Erika documented the strategy for other agencies to copy.

Federal grant strategy Source

Economic case-making

Kansas City streetcar: local transit, national jobs

Mapped how federal investment in one city's streetcar generated manufacturing and supply-chain jobs in multiple states, arming advocates to defend transit capital funding.

Transit capital funding strategy Source

Coalition building

Community Transit's unexpected allies

Showed how a transit agency defended its program by mobilizing manufacturers and suppliers as advocates alongside riders.

Coalition-building campaigns Source

Non-profit revenue

$100K+ in year-one small-dollar giving

Aligned a non-profit's business development goals with its outreach, launching a revenue program that raised more than $100,000 in small-dollar donations in its first year.

Non-profit engagement strategy

Organizational relaunch

Relaunch & rebrand of a national advocacy organization

Planned the relaunch and rebrand of a national advocacy organization, from positioning to partner rollout.

Full-service engagement campaigns

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Frequently asked

Questions, answered.

What results has ELY Public Affairs delivered?

Examples include leading public outreach with the Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission for the Market Street Bridge trail in Steubenville, Ohio; a non-profit revenue program that raised more than $100,000 in small-dollar donations in its first year; and the relaunch and rebrand of a national advocacy organization.

Has Erika Young helped agencies win federal grants?

Yes. Through Transportation for America's technical assistance program, Champaign-Urbana MTD won a competitive federal TIGER grant for complete streets, and Erika documented the strategy so other agencies could copy it.

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