Achieve Your Policy Goals
Economic development coalitions work every year to secure policies that will strengthen regions’ and America’s economic competitiveness.
However: 94% of bills introduced into Congress fail each year, most federal discretionary budgets see just a 5% nominal increase, and state politics increasingly track national division. In this context, producing results for your constituents is hard and costly.
Excel Advocacy, part of Excel Regional Solutions, is here as a partner that will put you in the optimal position to achieve your policy goals.
We have a deep understanding of coalition-based approaches, and we are ready to achieve these results through a solution that fits your structure and engages your stakeholders in the process.
Empower Your Initiatives
Our services are designed particularly to help economic development associations and coalitions achieve success.
Initiative Management
Running an effective federal government affairs initiative is challenging for coalitions: you need to run effective campaigns while engaging your members and raising funds. We can work with you as a partner to manage the entire effort, including priority identification, asset mapping, strategic planning, materials production, campaign execution, funding development, and impact assessment.
Campaign Execution
Expand your federal or state advocacy capacity by working with us on a specific campaign. This can be a great solution for coalitions that are adopting a new issue priority, facing a staffing shortfall, or confronting an unusual policy lever for your stakeholders. We can fill in on the specific execution points where you need an assist, or manage and execute the entire campaign for your coalition.
Strategy Consulting
Strengthen your federal or state advocacy efforts with outside, expert perspective that will have you and your stakeholders ready to execute an effective campaign. Full strategy development includes priority identification, asset mapping, strategy development, and tactical guidance, but we can also work with you to fill in the gaps of an existing process.
Advocate Training
Like any specialized field, economic development can be difficult for new advocates to articulate to elected officials. Often, people slip into jargon, present uncompelling information, and neglect to connect their interests to the audience. Work with us to cut down on this learning curve and train your stakeholders on effective messaging and communications.
Information Services
Most associations and coalitions rely on a steady stream of informational materials to help keep their stakeholders engaged in advocacy efforts. We can produce newsletters, publications, and webinars that address your need for useful and relevant state and federal policy information to share with your stakeholders so that you can focus your time on other priorities.
Why Work with Us
Deep Experience
Our team has experience working on economic development advocacy issues across multiple levels of government and, at the federal level, across multiple committees and agencies.
Unrivaled Results
Other economic development advocacy coalitions don’t have a track record that includes 2-4x funding growth across multiple programs and seeing key authorization priorities passed through various committees.
Coalitions First
We’re intimately familiar with the concerns of coalitions—we understand that you need wins with both policymakers and your stakeholders to be successful, and we’re ready to be a partner with you on meeting both goals.
Expertise you can rely on
“Jason Rittenberg is an exceptional leader with deep expertise in federal innovation policy and a comprehensive understanding of state and federal entrepreneurial programs. His unparalleled leadership skills and proven ability to guide trade associations make him an invaluable partner for economic development advocates. With strategic insight, vision, and a commitment to fostering impactful growth, Jason stands out as a trusted asset, driving initiatives that advance meaningful innovation and economic progress.”
Thomas Quinn, Managing Partner, Federal Practice at LSN Partners
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