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Our Mission is to assist local, national, and international government, non-profit and business clients achieve performance improvement goals by realizing their organizational, economic, social goals. Our assistance is provided through our organizational development/management and community development services — specifically project and program management, strategic planning, and facilitation. Our services are needed where these goals are not being achieved — where a organizational management or community development problem exists.
To assist government agencies, non-profits, and small businesses achieve performance improvements we analyze them from within as well as analyze their relationship with their external environment. We refer to this as Organizational Management. We also have experience in assisting communities with holistic problem analysis and solution of those problems. We refer to this as Community Development. Following is a description of our application of program management, strategic planning, and facilitation services in both of these scenarios.
Organizational Management
- Project/Program Management — Organize and orchestrate consultant teams in addressing our clients needs.
- Strategic/Business Advocacy — Guide government agencies, non-profit agencies, and small businesses in developing and implementing strategic plans. In some cases, it is sufficient for organizations to understand the detrimental effect of their lack of strategic thinking in their operations, realize the benefit of such thinking, and take corrective steps.
- Management Systems — Create management systems to assess needs, improve the delivery of services, create implementing entities, hire staff, and deliver the services.
- Decentralization of Governmental Programs/Services — Assist governments abroad in designing decentralized decision-making authority systems to increase democratization of government and participation by their constituents.
- Feasibility Studies — Help clients identify potential roadblocks before investing in an idea.
- Grant Planning and Writing — Secure funding for local governments and non-profit agencies via grant proposals, and
- Web Page — Design, develop and maintain.
Community Development
- Strategic Planning — Guide a community in developing and implementing strategic plans.
- Leadership Development — Identify and nurture local leadership to ensure local sponsorship and success of planning processes.
- Local Organization — Create organizational structures to facilitate public involvement.
- Civic Engagement — Create public involvement processes that ensure input is received.
- Facilitation — Facilitate work groups, focus groups and large public meetings. This includes assisting existing public bodies understand the underlying reasons for deeply imbedded inefficiencies leading to improved relations and operations.
As a team, we can:
- Determine and formulate policies and provide the overall direction of contract performance that may include private and public sector organizations within the guidelines set up by a client.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers. Such plans may include public relations programs designed to create and maintain a favorable public image for the client.
- Plan and direct activities to solicit and maintain funds for special projects and nonprofit organizations.
- Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.
- Research, plan, and design urban design projects such as parks and residential or commercial subdivisions.
- Consult with clients to determine functional and spatial requirements, and provide information regarding costs and designs.
- Prepare sketches of proposed project for clients.
- Write specifications and prepare scale and full size drawings and other contract documents for use by building contractor and craftsmen.
- Provide policy planning and recommendations to address community economic problems.
- Conduct research, prepare reports, and formulate plans to aid in the solution of community economic problems.
- Study and analyze economic factors involved in the production, distribution and use of goods or services to ensure maximum use of assets and to develop desirable markets.
- Develop, write, and edit material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, and related technical and administrative publications concerned with work methods and procedures.
- Select or develop publicity or favorable persuasive material and guide its distribution through personal contact or various communications media such as newspaper, television, and radio, to promote goodwill, develop credibility, or create favorable public image for individuals, establishment, groups, or organizations.
Our
Geographic Focus — We are located in Austin, Texas but we count on consultants that enable us to perform our services anywhere in the nation as well as abroad. Our
President, José
E. Martínez, has international consulting experience in the Middle East and Central and South America, where he has worked in the field of democracy strengthening, needs assessment, strategic planning, and municipal capital improvements programming at the local level. He has participated in
international
conferences in South America where he has presented
the topics of strategic planning, downtown development
and civic engagement to international audiences in Spanish, his native language.
THE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF OUR CONSULTING SERVICES
As President
of the firm, José
E. Martínez, has ample experience in the following fields:
- Consultant team leader — Urban planning teams
- Community-based
planning (strategic planning)
- Municipal
comprehensive planning
- Entrepreneurship Support (See the Economic Development link on left column for more information)Local
Organization Creation — Create organizational structures to facilitate civic
engagement
- Civic
Engagement — Create processes that ensure
public involvement / participation is received from rural and urban inner-city,
low-income neighborhoods
- Inner-city
neighborhood redevelopment
- Municipal
annexation fiscal impact analysis of
services and capital improvements
- Municipal
capital improvements planning / programming
- Low-income
housing planning
- Public
facility and public services planning
- Arts
services planning
- Human
services planning — Services for the elderly in
rural areas — (housing rehabilitation, health, transit, part-time
skilled employment, meals programming, information-and-referral,
and counseling)
- Rural
transit system design — Create demand responsive
transit systems
- Manpower
planning — For low-income populations, including
minorities
- Health
systems planning — For rural populations / review
of health systems proposals / applications
- Translator / Interpreter —
English-Spanish (native Spanish speaker — professional level)
- University adjunct instructor — Small town planning
- Teaching — High school mathematics teacher
- Web
page design and maintenance
We are generalists; we are problem solvers. By integrating the specialties listed above, our consulting service is an expanded one vs. one that simply delivers one or a few of these individual specialties. We can help the client define the problem. Having expertise in these specialties, we can take on complex problems. We apply multiple specialties on the given problem resulting in a well designed solution.
Click
here to view a flyer of our President's professional
experiences.
Click
here for an expanded discussion of Community Development.
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[GS-10F-0154S] An
SBA 8(a) firm 
