Our Services
We provide a wide range of professional consulting and advisory services to meet your needs.
Government Relations
Policy Operations Public Affairs Communications
Velvet Impact Group can work with you to bring your critical voice to the table. We will leverage over 25 years of working with elected and appointed government officials, policy staff and administrative agencies to augment relationships as well as shape and advance our client's legislative and/or regulatory position(s) on important policy matters. Our team can also assist with public affairs communications and messaging campaigns as well as identifying and securing applicable government funding opportunities.
Our collaborative approach includes understanding our client's values and mission to ultimately achieve optimal relationship engagement with government officials, meet public policy, messaging and/or government funding objectives.
External Community Engagement
Industry Relations
Social Impact & Strategic Partnerships
Our community engagement solutions are designed to help you and your company build near and long-term reputational value within the community environment in which you operate and to "make a positive difference" - especially with underserved and/or economically depressed communities.
Through purposeful relationship building and strategic partnerships, such as collaborating with industry associations, non-profit partners and local grassroots organizations, we will work with you to identify and implement a community affairs engagement strategy that creates mutually beneficial value and social impact which could include, but not limited to:
- Company giving programs and product donations;
- Hosting onsite tours, knowledge building roundtables and student mentoring sessions;
- Visiting local schools and partnering with youth and vocational training non-profit organizations;
- Philanthropic campaigns, community investment plans, scholarships and employee volunteer programs;
- Community event support and sponsorships; and/or
- Creating a workforce training program and talent pipeline initiative to augment job opportunities in the local community.
Economic Development Project Management Advisory & Support Services
We are ready to engage on our client's behalf to research, strategize, and evaluate the marketplace, including the potential for any government incentives, to prepare a project scope that will inform and assist with an economic development business attraction/relocation, retention and/or expansion project .
Velvet Impact Group can provide the necessary support services and professional experts to help you locate or expand your operation in the most advantageous market to achieve the vision for your future operation. Our team will leverage a well established network of federal, state, regional and local economic development professionals and organizations, economists, planning and zoning attorneys in addition to past professional expertise shepherding economic development projects at the state. regional and local level and facilitating international trade and commerce connections.
