Ensuring your voice is heard

State and local governments are regularly making decisions that impact your business or industry. The only question is whether or not you are part of the conversation. CGA has the contacts and institutional knowledge to help our clients stay informed. CGA's advocacy ensures our clients can seize limited opportunities and manage regulatory risks to be in a position to succeed and prosper. We interact with state government full-time, stepping in to ensure our clients' voices are heard and making sure that our clients are kept aware of changes.
CGA's political insight and comprehensive understanding of the legislative process, rules, protocols and individuals within state government helps us to develop an appropriate plan for each unique task.  Our services provide key deliverables for effective lobbying, including:
  • Government Monitoring Services:  We'll read, watch, listen and report to you on key legislative, regulatory and industry developments so you'll be on top of the latest information as it impacts your business or organization.
  • Legislative, Administrative and Municipal Lobbying Services: We'll monitor and proactively communicate your messages, interests and concerns to key officials, legislators and policymakers through individual meetings, drafting and delivering public hearing testimony, talking points and issue papers. 
  • Strategic Planning and Messaging: We'll work with you to identify your organization or business's short- and long-term goals and build succinct messages for communicating with key stakeholders to get your point across constructively and effectively. 
  • Communications Material Development​: We'll choose the right medium of communication for your target audience, draft and design educational handouts, brochures and presentations to increase audience understanding and retention of your messages. 
  • Grassroots Organization Development and Management - Clients representing a group of interested citizens often require specialized approaches to group management with which we can help, fine tune and support. 
  • Ethics Compliance - we comply with State Ethics filing requirements on behalf of clients who are in need of the service.

Successful Campaigns

Every successful campaign for our clients has a several components:
  • Messaging: ​Identify, develop and disseminate messaging points that will resonate with key legislators, agency personnel and municipal leaders.  
  • Strategy Planning: Identify issues, assess who needs to be contacted, and decide how and where to concentrate our resources and by what given timeline. 
  • Coalition Building: Identify other influential stakeholder interest groups that help or a hinder the strategy plan and develop a plan to manage and mitigate, as needed.  
  • Execution: Putting our plan into action.