Catalyzing the Future with Experience, Science, and Psychology.
Economic Strategy Professionals, LLC
COMMUNITY VISIONING
Are your community leaders aligned and pulling in the same direction? Do local non-profits know where they fit in to maximize efficiency and effectiveness? Do your citizens support the direction you're heading in, or do they even know? With a tried and true method of collaboration, led by a Steering Committee but developed through a grass-roots task force, we can help you elevate your narrative by breaking barriers, aligning silos, and inspiring your community in a short 8-10 months.
CAPITAL FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS
We raise money like nobody's business to fund solutions for your organization's and community's challenges. With more than 450 capital campaigns, feasibility studies, organizational plans, and community visioning exercises under our belts, with a collective raise of $426 million, we tap every potential resource, including members, investors, foundations, philanthropic individuals, and grants. In fact, we are one of the few firms in our industry with a full-time professional grant writer.
FEASIBILITY STUDIES - MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!
The results of our feasibility studies are objective, unbiased, and based on decades of experience. We guarantee our reports will produce results, or you don't pay, simple as that. Furthermore, we aren't a cookie-cutter firm where all non-profits fit into the same box. Our expertise and insights are focused solely on economic and community development organizations.
TIERED BENEFITS VS FAIR SHARE DUES
Tiered Benefits are the short-term equivalent of long-term return on investment (ROI) and are critical to maximizing your Chamber of Commerce or Economic Development Organization business model. Tiered Investor Benefits refers to the Economic Development Organization (EDO) model that allows your stakeholders to choose the level of service they require and exposure they want, starkly contrasting to the Fair Share Dues model, which is anything but fair. Our campaigns consistently exceed expectations because we are experts in your business model, and we know better than anyone else how to merge a capital campaign into it.......or create it from scratch and do away with those pesky little Total Resource Campaigns!
MERGERS AND ALLIANCES
Is your organization working in partnership with like-minded agencies or are you doing all the heaving lifting alone? Would it make sense to merge with another organization or at least align in such a way as to reduce common expenditures while maintaining autonomy? If you have questions let us provide you with decades of insights to help you navigate the many land mines you'll encounter along the way.
STRATEGIC AUDITS
As practitioners, advocates, and Board members, we engage the challenges and opportunities from multiple perspectives and can help guide you through a multitude of strategic opportunities while avoiding significant obstacles. We've written nationally published articles like, "Does a Rising Tide Really Lift All Boats", "Talent - the Currency of the 21st Century Economic Developer", and "Tiered Benefits - aka Short-Term ROI". And as one of the authors of the Georgia Development Authorities Manual, specifically the Chapter on Strategic Planning for EDO's, we understand economic development both literally and figuratively. Let us help you and your team chart a new course with the confidence you'll reach your destination on time and under budget..