We are pleased to partner with a variety of organizations to help MMANC develop local leadership. The MMANC Corporate Partners Program runs from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024, and provides tangible opportunities for exposure and interaction to northern California’s future local government leaders.
For more information about partnership opportunities contact MMANC 2024 President, Justin Lovell at president@mmanc.org.
Click on each logo below to learn more about our partners.
Diamond Partners
Raftelis
Raftelis helps local governments and utilities thrive by providing management consulting expertise to help transform local governments and utilities. We’ve helped more than 600 organizations in the last year alone. We work in all areas of management consulting including: finance, assessment, communications, technology, executive recruitment, and strategic planning.
Some of the things we do include: helping local governments and utilities improve their financial foundation while minimizing the impact on the people that rely on their services; enhancing organizational performance; identifying top talent; establishing strategic plans; using technology to provide and convey data-driven insights; and telling an organization’s story in a compelling, concise way.
Tripepi Smith
Tripepi Smith is a marketing, technology and public affairs firm based in Orange County, CA. Its clients include for-profit, nonprofit and public agencies throughout the state of California.
Gold Partners
Baker Tilly
Baker Tilly is a top ten advisory tax and assurance firm dedicated to customized business solutions that generate and sustain growth. We lead with purpose, and we walk with you every step along your journey.
Euna Solutions
Making your work better is what we do best. From procurement, payments, and grant management, to budgeting, permitting, and K-12 admin—Euna delivers best-in-class solutions that keep the public sector thriving.
Hanson Bridgett LLP
We’re Hanson Bridgett LLP.
And we face challenges head on. Whether we’re tackling a client’s case, closing a complex deal, or setting a new standard for law firm culture, we’re consistently working toward better solutions. As an AmLaw 200 California-born firm with more than 200 attorneys across the state, it’s simply in our DNA.
We’re not only the first law firm recognized as a certified B Corp—we wrote the legal framework. We encourage our people to grow and make an impact in meaningful ways, and we’re committed to developing our distinct culture, delivering excellent service, and leading by example.
Our deep capabilities means offering a tailored experience for our clients, our people, and the communities we serve. And while we’re based in California, we’ve forged alliances with firms in national and international legal networks to provide our legal skills across the US and worldwide.
We’re setting new expectations. Because what’s expected is worth challenging.
Schneider Electric
Schneider’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all.
Stifel
Stifel is a diversified global wealth management and investment banking company focused on building relationships that help individuals, families, and organizations pursue their financial goals.
Silver Partners
Bob Murray & Associates
Bob Murray & Associates brings a personal approach to providing quality executive recruitment services. Our clients include cities, counties, special districts, and non-profits – both large and small.
HdL Companies
Founded in 1983, HdL Companies was established to maximize local government revenues by providing a variety of audits, analytical services and software products. HdL’s systematic and coordinated approach to revenue management and economic data analysis is currently being utilized by over 700 agencies Nationwide. Services include a variety of audits, analytical services and software products. To date, HdL has recovered a cumulative total of $3 billion in new sales and use tax revenues for client agencies. Consulting services are available for sales, use and transaction taxes, economic development, property taxes, business license fees, transient occupancy tax and cannabis regulation and taxation. HdL also provides a variety of enterprise software processing tools for business licensing.
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore is California’s premier labor, education, and employment law firm. We provide training, education, and legal representation to hundreds of public agencies, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations across the state of California.
Miller Consulting
Miller Consulting Group – We are dedicated to the growth and development of individuals and organizations. Our team of consultants are highly respected professionals who bring their diverse backgrounds and world experiences to enrich our consulting engagements. We offer a wide array of individual and organizational development, training and management consulting services. Whether it is training, coaching, strategic planning or organization-wide change, our team is able to successfully customize services to meet your needs as well as those of your organization.
OpenGov
OpenGov was founded in 2012 by Zachary Bookman, Joe Lonsdale, and technologists from Stanford University, who studied government budgeting in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Today, OpenGov is an industry-leading government software company, providing the following local government cloud services:
Parcelquest
You need to know who owns a property or where they’re located in order to request access, send notices, deliver a warrant, make an offer, and a thousand other reasons we won’t list here (you’re welcome). Whatever your need, Parcelquest has got the data, updated in sync with county tax records.
Search by APN, address, and proximity, or choose a location on the map. Information for property owners in all 58 California counties is available in one place, saving you the hassle of multiple searches on multiple platforms.
Partners for Public Innovation
West Coast Arborists, Inc.
West Coast Arborists, Inc. (WCA, Inc.) was established in 1972. Today, the family-owned company is providing professional tree maintenance and management services for over 330 municipalities and public agencies throughout California and Arizona.
Willdan
Willdan Group, Inc. (Willdan) is a provider of professional technical and consulting services that ensure the quality, value, and security of our nation’s infrastructure, systems, facilities, and environment. The firm has pursued two primary service objectives since its inception in 1964—ensuring the success of its clients and enhancing its surrounding communities. In doing so, Willdan has gained a notable reputation for technical excellence, cost-effectiveness, and client responsiveness in providing superior consulting services. The company’s service offerings span a broad set of complementary disciplines that include engineering and planning, energy efficiency and sustainability, financial and economic consulting, and national preparedness. Willdan has crafted this set of integrated services so that, in the face of an evolving environment—whether economic, natural, or built—Willdan can continue to extend the reach and resources of its clients.
Bronze Partners
California Consulting
California Consulting is a full service grant writing firm. California Consulting is the largest grant writing firm in California. We prepare comprehensive and concise grant application packages. We also conduct post award compliance and administration. Since opening 20 years ago, California Consulting Inc. grant writers have written almost 1500 competitive grant applications that have been awarded to our clients. We specialize in Federal and State grant application writing as well as grant administration and reporting.
California JPIA
Providing innovative risk management solutions for its public agency partners for more than 40 years, the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority (California JPIA) is one of the largest municipal self-insurance pools in the state, with more than 120 member cities and other governmental agencies. Members actively participate in shaping the organization to provide important coverage for their operations. The California JPIA provides innovative risk management solutions through a comprehensive portfolio of programs and services, including liability, workers’ compensation, pollution, property, and earthquake coverage, as well as extensive risk management training and loss control services.
Climatec
Over the years, Climatec services have continuously expanded to meet the growing building technology needs of our customers.
From comprehensive building automation systems, security and life safety solutions, to turn-key energy efficiency services, we’ll work with you from start to finish—and stay with you to ensure you get the most out of your building technology investment.
CPS HR Consulting
Established in 1985 as a self-supporting public agency, CPS HR Consulting provides a full range of integrated HR solutions to federal, state and local governments, public safety, special districts and nonprofit organizations.
NBS
At NBS, we believe it is essential to take part in improving our communities, and consider it a privilege to help improve the lives of others. With this program, we hope to make a difference and give back to our communities and build a better tomorrow.
As a company, we hope to inspire our employee-owners to embrace our CSR philosophy. We encourage our employee-owners to speak up about causes that are important to them so NBS can join them in supporting those endeavors and expand our community impact.
Our company’s approach to social responsibility is to proactively partake in initiatives throughout the year and make a positive impact in our communities.
NHA Advisors
With over 125 years of combined experience, the professionals of NHA Advisors have managed over 1,000 financings totaling billions in projects. Our holistic, unbiased and comprehensive approach to problem solving provides each public agency with a unique set of alternatives to funding capital projects or meeting financial commitments.
As a Municipal Advisor, it is our obligation to advocate and represent public agencies in the pursuit of capital financing. Our project management approach helps to ensure financially feasible solutions are appropriate and suitable for each community. NHA Advisors excels at distilling complex concepts for staff, policy makers or community stakeholders.
Over the last decade, NHA has been ranked as one of the Top 3 most active advisors to California cities by number of bond financings completed*. Beyond traditional rankings, however, NHA Advisors believes the most valuable metric is the experience with different project types, political dynamics and financial complexity. Total financing amounts alone do not demonstrate the qualifications of a municipal advisor. Our work experience includes difficult challenges stemming from bankruptcy, financial workouts, natural disasters (earthquake, flood, fire, drought), utility rate challenges, voter initiatives and covenant violations.
Townsend Public Affairs
Founded in 1998, Townsend Public Affairs, Inc. is a premier lobbying firm that provides California advocacy, federal advocacy, and grant writing services to public agencies and nonprofit organizations throughout California.
