Columbia Policy Advisors exists to serve local governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations with an outcome-oriented approach to the immediate and long-term challenges and opportunities facing your organization.
Our services include:
Government Relations
Legislative Lobbying: In addition to day-to-day advocacy we focus on helping our clients develop smart objectives for their legislative agendas.
Agency Advocacy: Whether you need representation in an ongoing regulatory process or assistance simply finding the right person to talk to, we can assist you.
Relationship Building: We will help you build trusting relationships with government officials at any level.
Funding Strategies: We specialize in securing funding for capital, transportation, and operating needs.
Organization and Management Consulting
Eric has decades of experience addressing difficult management issues in complicated organizations; he can assist your organization with internal operations issues, external partnerships, and help you with your constituent needs.
Strategic Planning
We help organizations chart their course and identify strategies to face the challenges of the future. In addition, once it comes to implementing the plan, we’ll work with you to identify and monitor performance measures, activities, and actions.
Meeting Facilitation
Our policy advisors structure processes to engage the right people at the right time to aid you in achieving your objectives. We assure everyone feels they have a seat and a voice at the table.
Strategic Initiatives
Have a challenge, but not the time or resources to handle it internally? Columbia Policy Advisors can organize and facilitate internal discussions, identify and engage external stakeholders, analyze proposals, develop policy or program recommendations, and work with you and your staff to bring an initiative, project, or program to fruition.
We’ll also monitor, report on, or represent your organization in external policy processes.
Our clients
Snohomish County
Skagit County
Island County
San Juan County
Whatcom County
Lewis County
Clark County
Benton County
City of Battle Ground
City of Ellensburg
Evergreen Forest Stewards
(Port Blakely, Merrill & Ring, Hama Hama, O’Neill Pine, and Hemphill-O’Neill)
North Olympic Legislative Alliance
