Legislative Advocacy
Valentine Strategies, Inc. provides comprehensive advocacy services before the California State Legislature and Executive Branch, including state agencies, departments, boards and commissions. Services include drafting legislative proposals and amendments, testifying before policy, fiscal and budget committees, communicating with members of the Legislature, negotiating solutions with legislative authors and sponsors, drafting letters and implementing other communications tools as needed, and analyzing, monitoring and weighing in on legislation of interest to our clients.
State Budget Advocacy
Valentine Strategies, Inc. has the necessary knowledge and experience to successfully navigate the annual state budget process. Services include policy and fiscal analysis, development and implementation of comprehensive advocacy strategies to proactively advance fiscal goals or respond to budget proposals, written and oral communications, and negotiating solutions to budget proposals.
Policy Analysis
Valentine Strategies, Inc. brings 15 years of experience analyzing public policy for fiscal, technical and political implications on behalf of our clients. Services include assessing policy proposals for potential impacts to our clients, assessing and developing potential policy alternatives, and evaluating and crafting implementation strategies.
Consulting
Valentine Strategies, Inc. offers strategic advice and counsel for our clients trying to navigate California’s state and local government policy making and budget processes. Our services can be tailored to assist public, private and non-profit organizations to develop and execute policy and political strategy and coalition building to help clients meet their objectives successfully.
Coalition Development
Valentine Strategies, Inc. recognizes the value of relationships and leveraging a diverse set of strengths and experiences to achieve common interests and goals. The firm has experience building, leading and working in coalitions and offers services including acting as a subject matter expert, providing testimony and presentations in a variety of settings on behalf of coalitions, convening coalition meetings, managing working groups and tasks forces, and all other aspects of implementing policy and political strategy.
Association Management
Valentine Strategies, Inc. has over a decade of association management experience to assist clients with all aspects of association management. The firm can, under policy direction from a governing body, run the day-to-day operations of an association and manage staff, develop, coordinate, and execute organizational policy and strategy, execute and manage contracts, plan and manage association meetings, and provide regular communications to the governing body and external entities to ensure association goals are being met in a timely and transparent manner.