Oral health initiative helps Michigan kids smile
Michigan’s children are suffering a dental crisis. To help address the crisis, Public Sector Consultants is helping the dental insurance provider Delta Dental to develop a campaign called the Brighter Futures initiative. The problem is stark. More than a quarter of the state’s third-grade children, 27.1 percent, now struggle with untreated dental disease, according […]
Q&A with Dan Wyant, Director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
Dan Wyant On June 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new proposed rule under the Clean Air Act that will regulate carbon emissions from new and existing power plants. The rules require states to reduce their overall carbon emissions to 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Targets for carbon reduction vary […]
PSC resumes public opinion polling
Public Sector Consultants is launching this month a new polling partnership to assess the views of likely voters on key topics in Michigan. The quarterly poll restores a PSC tradition. The firm once regularly published the Public Opinion Monitor, which tracked public views on pressing state issues – issues that remain with us today. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]