Services
Building Strategic, Successful Campaigns
Elmendorf Strategies understands that a multi-faceted campaign is necessary to successfully accomplish strategic objectives in today's acrimonious public policy fights. With our strategic services, we guide our clients through each element of the process to help them achieve their goals.
Our experienced team of consulting professionals can respond to your campaign through the following key services.
Strategy
Elmendorf Strategies will help your organization design, build and execute a strategy to accomplish your goals in Washington. With significant insider expertise managing the process at the highest levels, and experience providing strategic advice to corporations and associations seeking legislative results, Elmendorf Strategies will help you chart a path through the complex Washington political process.
Long-term planning
Elmendorf Strategies will help your organization anticipate problems and identify and plan for opportunities. What is the emerging political environment in Congress for your issue? Who are the key decision-makers? What is the most efficient and productive way to utilize your organization's resources? Elmendorf Strategies can design a program to build the relationships with policy-makers who will impact your business in the future.
Lobbying
Elmendorf Strategies brings to the table real relationships with the key players in Washington, real access to them, and a willingness to put those relationships to work for you. From U.S. Senators to legislative staff to the schedulers that actually put the meetings together, Elmendorf Strategies has the relationships necessary to get you information from, intelligence about, and access to the people you need to see.
Political Participation
A crucial part of relationship building is active participation in political campaigns. Elmendorf Strategies can develop a cohesive plan for your political activities - identifying target races, balancing donations across the aisle and in both Houses of Congress, selecting the best targets for concentrated fundraising efforts, and advising your PAC on how to plan for the future.
Media
Elmendorf Strategies understands the ways in which communications shape policy and the legislative process, and its principals have extensive relationships with Capitol Hill reporters and the national political press corps.
Coalitions,Groups and States
Identifying and contacting decision-makers in districts and states, and building relationships with organizations that share common goals, are crucial to your success. Elmendorf Strategies has relationships with governors, mayors and State legislators, and can utilize those contacts to further your goals in Congress. From grassroots and "grass tops", to focus groups and third-party organizations, Elmendorf Strategies will utilize all necessary resources to ensure the success of your public policy campaign.