Guides
How technology can help you save time, and discover more opportunities and actionable insights from school boards that will set your organization up for success.
Get the white paper for the top five most effective strategies from local government affairs professionals that you can put into practice now.
Learn how machine-learning technology can help you cut through the noise to automatically identify relevant mentions of the policy topics you need to track.
Download this guide to get the best practices you can implement today to make sure you stay on top of local government discussions and are ready to spring into action on key issues.
With local governments taking on larger regulatory roles and passing legislation with major impacts, learn how to incorporate technology to accelerate and automate your local policy monitoring.
There are five valuable reasons organizations can benefit from tracking issues in local governments and utlize the wealth of business intelligence in meeting minutes & agendas
Your comprehensive guide to building a robust local government monitoring process to become proactive in government relations, mitigate risk, and spot opportunities.
Case Studies
Challenge: The Corporate Economic Development team is responsible for staying up to date and sharing information with other internal teams on the status of the projects.
Result: The team has a more direct feed of information, lessening their reliance on receiving information from third parties.
Challenge: Minor changes to local government ordinances were having outsized consequences for the public affairs team of an electric utility.
Result: The public affairs team is now much more confident they are staying abreast of local policy changes that could affect the utility.
Challenge: The public affairs team was constantly getting blindsided by issues in smaller communities without the necessary resources to monitor these municipalities.
Result: Without adding headcount, the team is now catching more local policy issues in towns they could not effectively monitor previously.
Challenge: The government affairs team at Michigan REALTORS® relied on their membership to inform them about threats in local governments across the state.
Result: Automated alerts from Curate give the association the advanced notice they need to empower their members with talking points and advocacy strategies.
Challenge: The Washington Food Industry Association needed real-time alerts to protect the interests of its members struggling during the pandemic.
Result: Proactive engagement with local lawmakers when legislation was first proposed has saved many members an average of $20k per week.
Challenge: Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® needed a reliable and proactive way to find out about threats in local government and respond to them quickly.
Result: Association now catches hundreds of issues every year – from costly new taxes to harmful policies – across 351 municipalities.
Challenge: Tracking issues across 71 counties was too much work for the statewide affairs director & local bureaus had no time to seek out information.
Result: Using Curate, they have caught and been able to proactively address multiple issues that posed a significant financial risk to farmers.
Reports
Videos & Webinars
Video Analysis: Where local governments are discussing broadband projects using ARP funds.