Outreach, engagement, and persuasion campaigns that move.
Built for non-profits, public agencies, and mission-driven companies.
ELY Public Affairs works with non-profit organizations, public agencies, and private companies to achieve their external advocacy and engagement goals.
This ranges from the review of an existing plan to fully developing an engagement strategy and two of our popular engagements can be found below.
Advocacy Training
Designed to help non-profit organizations, public agencies, and private companies up their advocacy game and create winning strategies.
Ask About Advocacy TrainingStakeholder Interviewing
We develop deep insight for companies and public agencies seeking actionable feedback for strategy development and product launches.
Ask About Stakeholder InterviewingFull Service
We create winning engagement campaigns -- including clarifying your goals, identifying your audiences, and creating the timeline and strategies you need to win your issue.
Ask About Full ServiceSomething else on your mind?
Book a free, 30-minute call.
From idea to action, in four moves.
Analyze
We dissect complex legislative ideas using federal, state, and local policy expertise, and tell you where the votes, the money, and the risks really are.
Engage
We design coordinated advocacy campaigns using coalition building and grassroots tactics. Success through addition, not subtraction.
Communicate
Message strategy and branding that turn a technical policy into something a council member, a reporter, and a neighbor all understand.
Execute
We run the campaign, in person and online: meetings, hearings, town halls, digital outreach, and follow-through.
Competing for a federal grant?
Our federal grant strategy covers BUILD/RAISE and transit capital grants: readiness review, benefit-cost framing, coalition letters of support, and congressional engagement.
Services grounded in work Erika has already done.
- Analyze: wrote national analysis of FY2016 THUD appropriations (read)
- Engage: grew T4America's coalition of elected, business, and civic leaders (read)
- Communicate: "Copy this tactic" playbook on recruiting unexpected voices (read)
- Execute: led community outreach for the Market Street Bridge trail in Steubenville, OH (read)
- Win funding: helped Champaign-Urbana MTD win a competitive TIGER grant (our federal grant strategy)
Questions, answered.
What services does ELY Public Affairs offer?
ELY Public Affairs offers policy analysis, coalition building and advocacy campaigns, strategic communication and branding, campaign execution, advocacy training, stakeholder interviewing, federal grant strategy, and community outreach for infrastructure projects.
How does an engagement with ELY Public Affairs work?
Engagements range from reviewing an existing plan to fully developing an engagement strategy. Popular engagements include Advocacy Training, Stakeholder Interviewing, and Full Service campaigns that clarify your goals, identify your audiences, and create the timeline and strategies you need to win your issue. You can also book a free, 30-minute call.
Have a thorny issue that needs support?
Book a free, 30-minute strategy call. Erika will look at your policy goal, your audience, and your timeline, and tell you plainly what it will take.