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Paper Instructions;

Prepare a consulting report analyzing the current capabilities in your organization to monitor and participate in the public policy process on issues of greatest interest and where it may be possible to affect the outcome of the issues. This is the opportunity to apply what you have learned in this course to your organization.


the consulting project should address the following:

1.    Examine the existing capabilities for monitoring and participating in the public policy process in your organization. I realize that current capabilities may be zero or minimal.

2.    Consider opportunities for improvement of these capabilities. What could be done and how could these capabilities be improved? Suggest how support for these changes could be created in your organization. Discuss how changes could be implemented. 

•    Consideration should include but not be limited to, improved monitoring of the political environment of the organization, improved access to information about important public policy issues by employees, political education for employees, grassroots capabilities, and PAC operations as well as the use of lobbyists and trade organizations.

•    This consulting report is a test of how you can apply what you have learned in this course to a real organization with which you are familiar. TN #2 is especially important for this report.

•    The report format will be a combination of text and illustrations. Graphs, charts, diagrams are helpful in getting your message across. I will leave it up to each person to organize their material as they see fit. Please limit your report to no more than 3000 words.  Print the word count and your name on the first page. Use subheadings, short paragraphs, and list all references with footnotes or endnotes linked to each new fact or quote.