Campaign and Issue Assessments

M+R produces insightful strategic assessments for nonprofits, foundations, coalitions, and issue campaigns. With decades of experience designing and managing campaigns, we are uniquely qualified to:

• Help clients understand how the changing political and economic environment will affect their programs and campaigns;
• Evaluate the governance, structure, operations, and performance of coalitions, organizations and issue campaigns;
• Assess previous and ongoing campaigns, as well as the feasibility of prospective campaigns;
• Measure program and campaign tactics and results against best practices in the field;
• Assess the ongoing work of an organization or foundation’s affiliates or grantees;
• Conduct comprehensive communications audits;
• Produce innovative, multi-faceted and effective campaign plans; and
• Deliver detailed and actionable assessment reports.

Some of our recent work includes evaluating:

• Farm Bill campaign efforts and the development of a foreign aid reform campaign plan for Oxfam America;
• Environmental media coverage and public opinion polling in five Northwestern states;
• The new media and online fundraising strategies of the Obama for America campaign for several funders;
• Voter registration and mobilization strategies in key states and nationwide for America Votes, Center for Community Change, and others;
• Efforts to pass campaign finance reform in Connecticut;
• A national media and online advocacy campaign to reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics in food animals for the Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition;
• Healthcare reform efforts during the 2008 presidential election;
• Civic engagement work in nine states;
• An internal evaluation of America Coming Together for the ACT board;
• An assessment of a national reproductive health organization;
• And more!

For more information please contact Marjory Garrison at mgarrison@mrss.com or (917) 575-1497.