We offer external engagement services to help organizations build strong relationships with communities, stakeholders, and partners through consultation, outreach, and dialogue that fosters trust, collaboration, and informed decision-making. Contact us to learn more.
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Community Engagement Planning
Community engagement helps organizations build meaningful relationships with community stakeholders through open dialogue and public participation. It increases transparency, strengthens trust, improves decision-making, and ensures programs, services, and policies better reflect the needs and perspectives of the community.
We’ve developed and implemented numerous external engagement plans for diverse stakeholder groups. Those plans included activities (open houses, surveys, meetings), information materials, and advertising to attract attendance - with positive outcomes including 500+ attendees at open houses and over 2,000 respondents to surveys.
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Surveys and Open Houses
Surveys and open houses are often part of a community engagement campaign to gather input or feedback on a key project an organization is planning and provide valuable insights into audience needs, perceptions, and behaviors. By collecting and analyzing data informed decisions can be made by leadership to better meet the expectations of key audiences.
We’ve developed, implemented, analyzed, and reported outcomes for open houses with 500+ attendees and over 125 surveys totaling tens of thousands of respondents, and can do the same for your organization using your survey instrument or our sophisticated survey platform.
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Media Relations
Media relations help organizations build constructive relationships with journalists and news outlets. By providing accurate, timely, and newsworthy information, it improves awareness, strengthens credibility, and helps ensure important announcements, issues, and stories are communicated effectively to the public.
Our training and experience in media relations across several large public sector organizations have generated high-profile positive news coverage and helped mitigate crises through creative storytelling, news releases, news conferences, media kits, media monitoring, and spokesperson training.
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Government Relations
Government relations help organizations build productive relationships with elected officials and public agencies. Through clear communication and strategic engagement, it advances organizational interests, and helps ensure policies, funding opportunities, and regulatory issues are effectively understood and addressed.
We have helped organizations through connections and communications with government representatives and agencies for advocacy, funding, issues mitigation, and other needs that have or need government oversight or involvement.
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Election Support
Election support provides municipalities with planning, operational assistance, and strategic communications during election periods. It helps ensure accurate public information, clear candidate processes, and effective voter engagement while maintaining neutrality, transparency, and public confidence in the integrity of the municipal election process.
We have provided election support to school districts and municipalities for a variety of needs and continue to do so.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility helps organizations demonstrate their commitment to ethical practices, social and community support, philanthropy, economic responsibility, and environmental stewardship. By aligning values with actions, it strengthens reputation, builds public trust, enhances stakeholder relationships, and shows that the organization contributes positively to society beyond its core operations.
Not only have we contributed to planning and implementation of it in organizations, Principal Consultant Peter Chevrier also teaches CSR at university.
Contact PARAGON to learn how we can help your organization with any of these services.