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Services

  • At Elevate we specialize in political communications at the federal, state, and local levels. While we have the writing ability, media relationships, and organizational skills to handle all of your communications needs, our most valuable add is our strategic lens. When and why should you send a press release? How can we best describe an initiative to appeal to the broadest audience? Who is the most impactful signer for our op-ed?

    Elevate can handle any and all aspects of media relations. This includes the below and more:

    • Op-ed and LTE drafting, pitching, and placement

    • Editorial board preparation and training 

    • Clips tracking and media monitoring

    • Serving as press point of contact and/or spokesperson and building press relationships

    • Press releases and advisories

    • Conceptualizing, organizing, and executing press events, conferences, and tours

    • Media pitching

    • Crisis communications

    Elevate also provides the following Communications Services:

    • Development of Strategic Communications Plans

    • Message development including message briefings and talking points

    • Spokesperson and Advocate Training 

    • Interview Preparation

    • Media and Outreach Training (more details in Media and Outreach Training Section)

    • Collateral and Fact Sheet Development 

    • Coalition Materials Development 

    • Campaign Materials Development and Review 

    • Communications Audits and Reviews

    • Media Buying

  • At Elevate, we have an extensive history in advising and managing winning campaigns, from school board and local tax measures all the way to gubernatorial and US senate campaigns. The feedback we hear consistently from clients is we’re fixers, able to take on complex and sometimes heated issues, and operate a smooth and successful campaign. We’re here to be both your strategic guide as well as the team that will ensure a smooth and successful execution. 

    Elevate can handle a wide variety of campaign and political work:

    • Develop a unique and tailored approach and outlining the path to victory.

    • Strategize about the best use of resources to achieve our path to victory including targets, voter universe, and the ideal mix of platforms to reach our targets.

    • Strategize, write, and implement campaign plans.

    • Develop and execute a campaign budget. We have never left a campaign client in debt.

    • Advise on hiring of campaign staff and consultants, including campaign manager, fundraisers, pollster, TV/media, mail, digital, and compliance and accounting. 

    • Coordinating strategy across the campaign including paid media, earned media, outreach, etc. 

    • Manage communications strategy and day-to-day execution, including serving as the on-the-record representative of a campaign

    We are here to work with you, from before your campaign launches to deep within the election cycle, to help maximize your resources and your team. We are here to help you win.

  • We leverage new and emerging media platforms to elevate your communication goals and reach new audiences. We offer the following services:

    • Content Creation

    • Organic Social Media Management

    • Email Marketing

    • Website Management

    • New Account Creation

    • Branding and Digital Strategy

    • Video Editing for Social Media

    • Trainings

    • Paid Social Media Campaigns

    • Digital Toolkits for Advocates

  • We can take your strategic messaging goals and turn them into beautifully designed products in your organization’s branding. 

    • Organic and Paid Social Media Graphics

    • Flyers, Postcards, Door Hangers, and Voter Guides

    • Legislative Reports and Scorecards

    • Posters, Handouts, and Fact Sheets

    • Coalition Logo and Branding

  • We can provide comprehensive training for your leadership team, staff, advocates or spokespeople to prepare them for media interviews, coalition meetings, community outreach, or public speaking engagements. We tailor every training to meet your specific needs and can accommodate everything from small and in-depth one-on-one sessions to larger-scale staff multi-day staff trainings.

  • The Elevate Team can help you strategically build the coalition you need to move your initiative, ballot proposal, legislation, or campaign forward. This includes guiding the process of selecting and seeking out partners, building and strengthening  your coalition, and assisting with coalition management.

  • The Elevate Team provides full-service strategic planning services for small to midsize teams, organizations, and companies including facilitating interviews and planning sessions, guiding the development of goals, objectives, tactics, timelines, measurements of success and more and crafting a comprehensive report. Our team also has extensive experience helping review teams and helping them revise and restructure for success.