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,…
Q&A: Jeff Guilfoyle, vice president at Public Sector Consultants
Nina Ignaczak Jeff Guilfoyle joined Public Sector Consultants in early April as a vice president after an already impressive career in the public policy arena, most recently as president of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan (CRC), a nonprofit public policy research firm. Before his five years at CRC, Guilfoyle worked for a decade…
Michigan’s Office of Great Start ready to ‘race to the top’ of early childhood learning
A partnership among Michigan’s Office of Great Start (OGS), Public Sector Consultants and early childhood organizations has yielded $52 million in new federal funds to help hundreds of thousands of Michigan children access high-quality preschool—something now out of reach for many struggling families who are often forced to make trade-offs between rent, utilities and food. Shear…
Michigan nonprofits make big impact on state’s economy
For nearly two decades, PSC has been tracking and detailing the effects of the nonprofit sector on the economy and life of Michigan. In May, PSC will release its latest update. While all the details have to wait until then, the new report will track with previous versions that have shown nonprofits: Spend billions of…
Public Sector Consultants recognized for workplace wellness
Public Sector Consultants’ long experience with health data and research has propelled the firm into an aggressive employee wellness program – a program that just drew state acclaim and responds to larger trends in health and the U.S. workplace. On April 24, PSC was officially honored for its wellness efforts with a Diamond…
PRESS RELEASE: PSC Lands Diamond Award for Healthy Workplace Activities from Governor Rick Snyder
For Immediate Release Contact: Selma Tucker, Director of Marketing and Communications Public Sector Consultants (517) 484-4954 LANSING, Mich.— Public Sector Consultants Inc., Michigan’s premier public policy research firm, was honored April 24 as a recipient of a Diamond Award in the Governor’s Fitness Awards at the 2014 Gala Celebration at Ford Field in Detroit. PSC, a…
Michigan gets serious about keeping money and jobs out of the landfill through recycling
Recycling in Michigan Michigan gets serious about keeping money and jobs out of the landfill through recycling Along with trash, Michigan has buried dollars and jobs in landfills for years. That’s despite a target set in 2007 in the State’s solid waste policy to achieve a 50 percent recycling rate in Michigan and 24…