Our Accomplishments

Legislative and Executive Branch:

• Developed a comprehensive legislative strategy for a multinational company involving executive and legislative advocacy, grass roots lobbying, coalition building, and public relations. Successfully achieved enactment of a major piece of legislation that created an entirely new licensure category and section of law in New York.
• Successfully eliminated a proposed new tax on direct broadcast satellite services.
• Secured numerous client appointments to State panels, advisory task forces, commissions, committees, and boards, enabling clients to offer their expert advice and participate directly in the formulation of State policy.
• Successfully represented a client's interests to propose, introduce, and gain the enactment of legislation to modify a costly mandate.
• Combined our policy expertise and our client's business know-how to shape State agency guidances and regulations that directly affected the client's core business.

Funding:

• Secured considerable new funding for a successful tax credit program in collaboration with an industry coalition.
• Researched and secured State grant funding to expand the client's use of technology, thereby increasing workforce productivity and client efficiency.
• Attained significant levels of scarce capital funding for a major cultural institution, which empowered it to undergo a transformational restoration and propelled its continued growth.
• Gained prime sponsors and legislative support for ongoing member item funding to finance critical projects.
• Assisted a consortium of institutions of higher education in the design and development of a new academic program, and lobbied to secure multiyear State funding.
• Through a multiyear advocacy campaign in both the legislative and executive branches, secured new workforce and technology funding for a segment of the health care sector previously unfunded.