Michigan Clean Energy Reports
Michigan Clean Energy Report: A Profile of Clean Energy Efforts in Seven Michigan Communities This report was prepared by Michigan Saves, a multimillion-dollar organization managed by Public Sector Consultants that provides financing solutions for energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements. Communities that address clean energy issues have much to gain. Not only do those communities…
Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations for How to Improve Michigan’s Education System
Michigan needs to focus relentlessly on improving education from cradle to career. Success across P–20 (prenatal to graduate school), not just K–12, will help drive success in postsecondary attainment and prosperity in the workplace. To ensure a bright future for our children and our state, Michigan needs a coordinated, comprehensive strategy for each and every…
PRESS RELEASE: PSC research links focus on education to stronger workforce
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 LANSING, Mich. — In a new report, Public Sector Consultants (PSC) takes a close look at Michigan’s troubled education system and proposes solutions for improving student outcomes and strengthening the state’s workforce. The report, titled Building a Brighter Future: Recommendations…
Region 9 Prosperity Initiative Five-year Prosperity Strategy
The Regional Prosperity Initiative (RPI) was established by Gov. Rick Snyder and the state legislature in 2014 to encourage local partners to create vibrant regional economies. The RPI is a voluntary program, developed to recognize the fact that many Michigan regions and their myriad of planning and service delivery entities have overlapping responsibilities and lack…
PRESS RELEASE: Poll: Moral duty to Detroit Schools, Financial Duty Less Clear
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 Moral duty to Detroit schools, financial duty less clear In the latest Public Sector Consultants/Denno Research poll, conducted May 14 to 16, 2015, we asked 600 likely voters statewide a series of questions about Detroit Public Schools. From the governor’s…
PRESS RELEASE: Voters Point to Complexity, Leadership Issues for Prop 1 Failure
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 Voters point to complexity, leadership issues for Prop 1 failure Recently, Michigan voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposal 1, a measure designed to fund road repairs. We not only wondered why it failed, but more importantly, what do voters expect next time…
Tracking the class of 2015: Where will millennials move post-graduation?
As spring comes to a close, students across the nation will pour out of the hallowed halls of colleges and universities to launch their careers and their futures. As tassels are moved from right to left and caps of all colors are tossed into the air, many decisions have already been made about jobs, apartments…
In the Gears: Putting PSC’s implementation skills to work for the Great Lakes
Fostering an idea into a fully implemented project is the focus in this installment of In the Gears, a series that highlights the tools PSC uses to turn the gears of public policy innovation. Other focus areas include research, evaluation and defining problems and solutions through facilitation, strategic counsel and strategic planning. One of the cornerstones…
Why vaccinating matters
Each year, thousands of children become ill from diseases that could have been prevented by basic immunizations. When a child catches measles or whooping cough, there is an obvious threat to the child’s health. But how does illness affect that child’s education, or our education system and society at large? Vaccines and our schools…
Q&A: Council of Michigan Foundations President and CEO Rob Collier
Growing Michigan’s philanthropic impact is a primary goal for the Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF). The organization depends on its members, investments in Michigan’s charitable organizations, collaboration and more to move that goal forward. In order to understand the nonprofit sector’s influence in Michigan, CMF supported research done by Public Sector Consultants (PSC) on nonprofits’…