TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Large, Complicated Campaigns

We have proven experience leading large, diverse stakeholders in a Bond campaign. We managed the two largest school bonds in Oregon history for Portland Public Schools that required managing a remarkable number of interested parties. Our experience passing a $1.2 billion dollar bond will serve Mt. Hood Community College well in making efficient, effective decisions throughout the campaign. The key is making sure that the process of decision making is clear and the organization sticks to that agreed upon process.

Monitoring and Controlling Costs

We have demonstrated experience creating and managing large and complex budgets to keep the project moving forward. The most important part is transparency: write a budget early, agree upon the budget and then stick to it. If variance is needed, you need to have a process in place to communicate and make that change.

Working With Diverse Stakeholders

We have worked extensively with a variety of communities large and small that represent a wide range of socio-economic, ideological and racial constituencies.

We have developed a variety of best practices in engaging communities with culturally competent materials and outreach and understand the importance of tailored communications to winning bonds.

Stakeholder communication can occur in many ways and not every stakeholder needs the same level of communication or detail. Using the concentric circles method we work with the client to identify core stakeholders and their communication needs and then work outwards from there; with each larger circle the audience grows but the detail shrinks.