Issues rarely stay in one lane. Our work spans local, state, and federal government, paired with the grassroots and association capacity to back it up.
Local, state and federal governments can be mysterious to businesses facing policy challenges. True North Strategies represents clients before the Georgia General Assembly, state agencies, and local governments, and we regularly manage issues that require attention at more than one level of government at the same time.
That means tracking legislation and regulation as it moves, building relationships with the members and staff who decide it, and representing your position directly — not through a subcontractor.
Send a note →We recruit, coach, and place the constituents and local supporters whose word carries weight at the Capitol — and we turn that into testimony, calls, and letters in the member's hometown paper. All 159 counties. In-house.
Send a note → See the Georgia ground game →A town in one corner of Georgia hears an issue differently than a town in another, and an argument that works in one can fall flat in the other. So instead of one statewide pitch, we fit our local work to each place, adjusting how we make the case to suit the people who will actually hear it — work that also pays off in how your organization is regarded back home.
An issue is stronger when it isn't only us making the case. We find the local leaders and organizations willing to put their own names behind your position, then research exactly who needs to hear from them and how. The result is a set of credible, independent supporters carrying your position to the people who can actually be persuaded.
Send a note → See the Georgia ground game →A policy fight rarely gets won by one tactic working alone. We plan and run the whole effort — the direct lobbying, the grassroots push, the local allies — as a single operation aimed at one outcome, instead of three separate efforts that happen to be working the same issue.
That means someone is minding the effort day to day: keeping every partner and supporter on the same timeline, lining up press attention alongside the lobbying work, and adjusting the plan as the fight moves through committee, the floor, or the agency. You get one effort to manage on your end, not three vendors to coordinate yourself.
Send a note →Mapping the government decisions, and the officials and agencies behind them, for a new Georgia location, expansion, or market entry.
Learn more →Diagnosis and a coordinated action plan when a business project stalls in front of an agency, a board, or parties who aren't aligned.
Learn more →Ongoing, principal-led government and community affairs support without a full-time executive.
Learn more →Three examples of the grassroots and government affairs work described above, with the client type and what the work produced.
Five years of Georgia roundtables that put patients, caregivers, and local providers in front of House and Senate offices, backed by letters to the editor and written follow-up.
Read the case →Retired teachers and other seniors met congressional staff in Georgia, wrote letters for community papers, and gave a national group a clean count of what really happened.
Read the case →Constituent letters, nonprofit and faith-community supporters, and a direct contact with a Georgia House member immediately before the vote on a federal food-security bill.
Read the case →The months before the General Assembly convenes are when the organizations that will need representation start lining it up. Let's talk about what you're watching.
