Community Initiatives

Piurek & Associates connects with community at all levels. Our experienced professional consultants assist leaders in focusing on initiatives with clarity to design campaigns that achieve optimum results. Areas of specialization include community relations, public affairs, governmental relations, media relations, crisis management and strategic planning.

We have a strong track record of helping organizations assess their needs and strengths, and then connect to the community and/or businesses and stakeholders that will further their initiatives.

Our experience has demonstrated that strong organizations strategically engage in robust community connections. Even more importantly, organizations integrate community connectivity as a business practice and reflect its importance in the organizational culture.

• Assessment of Community Position: Piurek & Associates can help you and your organization assess internal and external motivation for community-centered vision and initiatives. The assessment process gauges your organizational readiness to engage the community and their ownership in specific project or program initiatives; the degree of understanding about local politics; and ability to use community resources to map assets, govern community-centered work, and organize social capital for action.
• Identify Potential Markets and Collaboration Opportunities: Our experienced management consulting team can help businesses identify and articulate a vision at the macro level, and instinctively identify community resources, and partner agencies to develop the infrastructure necessary to bring action and life to your vision. Our well connected professional consultants can engage key stakeholders, partners and providers for collaboration. Collaboration is the vital key to successful community-centered practice, developing both social organization and economic development in tandem. We view communities as possessing assets vs. having deficits, and encourage the addition of community connections incrementally to your organizational continuum.
• Assist Relationship Facilitation: Piurek & Associates is well connected in the health and human services field, and has the ability to open doors and facilitate mutually beneficial relationships. Introductions may include:
  
  
  • Identified governmental agency representatives
  • Identified political leaders/decision makers
  • Identified community, civic and faith-based organizational representatives
  • Other organizations identified in community assessment
  We help your outreach efforts by educating, training and mobilizing key individuals and organizations to be your community advocates.
• Develop Internal Talent: Piurek & Associates can help you develop and sustain transformational leadership, vision and involvement to stimulate team and community commitment to community-centered practice. We focus on measurement systems, leadership requirements and tools, and best practices within systematic process as foundational elements for internal talent to do what they can do best. Concurrently, it is vital to develop organizational capacity, including: culture, systems, structures and decision-making models to support viable community connections.

We are here to help you build strong community connections. Please contact us to discuss how we can be of service in this important area.