In The Gears: How PSC’s Amanda Menzies builds consensus for better policy
In the June edition of Bright Ideas we started In The Gears, a series on how PSC turns the gears on public policy innovation: research and analysis, program implementation, evaluation, and defining problems and solutions through facilitation, strategic counsel, and strategic planning. This is the next installment of the series featuring PSC’s take on facilitation…
Implementing the Upper Maple River Watershed Plan: Approaches to Decrease Environmental and Public Health Risks from Failing Well and Septic Systems
The Clinton Conservation District (CCD) hired PSC to assist in the implementation the Upper Maple River watershed management plan that was approved by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2010. The plan and subsequent monitoring results identified water quality impairments in the Maple River and its tributaries that include excessive nutrient and pathogen levels….
PSC Expands Data Site on Nonprofits’ Economic Impact
PSC has updated and expanded a website that details data on the economic impact of Michigan’s nonprofit sector. By visiting nonprofit.pscinc.com, you can find interactive maps and tables that present nonprofit data by county, metropolitan region, micropolitan region, and the regions of the governor’s Regional Prosperity Initiative.
Public Sector Consultants’ ‘special sauce’: deep policy knowledge and the ability to get it done
For more than 30 years, Public Sector Consultants has provided services that help advance Michigan. While the nature of those services have evolved over time, two things remain constant: a commitment to objective research and a tireless pursuit of innovative solutions to policy questions. Today, PSC employs a full suite of tools that, when…
Gerrymandering: Picasso could not have done it better
CEO Jeff Williams stepped before the Lansing Rotary Club May 16 to talk about politics. His first presentation slide was dominated by a work of art by Pablo Picasso. Say what? Picasso’s political leanings were to the French Communist Party. What the heck could that have to do with gerrymandering, the drawing of election lines…
Update on economic benefits of Michigan’s nonprofit sector
To most people, the term “nonprofit” conjures visions of benevolent institutions doing good work in communities, perhaps feeding the homeless or providing job training to ex-convicts on a shoestring budget, often in the face of long odds. Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit served nearly 12,852 people in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties in 2013, and…
Charitable giving and doing: part of Public Sector Consultants’ culture
PSC President Peter Pratt enjoys the 2014 Greater Lansing Food Bank fundraiser in East Lansing along with Colleen McNamara (left) and Leslie Brogan. Pratt is a longtime member of the food bank’s Board of Directors (PSC photo/Donna Van Natter) As a firm with decades of experience in researching, designing, and implementing best practices, it should…
Economic Benefits of Michigan’s Nonprofit Sector 2014
PSC has released a 2014 analysis of Michigan’s nonprofit sector. The update is the latest in a series from PSC dating back to the mid-1990s for the Michigan Nonprofit Association and Council of Michigan Foundations.
PRESS RELEASE: Michigan’s Nonprofit Sector Responsible for 1 in 10 Jobs in State; Billions in Wages
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 LANSING, Mich.—A detailed analysis by Public Sector Consultants (PSC), a Lansing-based public policy research firm, has found that nonprofits in Michigan employ more than 10 percent of the state’s workforce, pay about $5 billion every three months in wages to…
Welcome to Bright Ideas
Welcome to Bright Ideas, the newsletter of Public Sector Consultants, the premier public policy and program management firm in Michigan. Thirty-five years ago, PSC began in the mind of Jerry Faverman, a large character with a large vision: to provide clients with policy analysis and strategic counsel driven by data, not opinions or ideology. Today,…