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, 2023 through December 31, 2023, and provides tangible opportunities for exposure and interaction to northern California’s future local government leaders.
For more information about partnership opportunities contact MMANC 2023 President, John Stefanski at vp@mmanc.org.
Platinum Partners
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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.
Stifel
Stifel’s Public Finance professionals specialize in raising capital to build and maintain essential infrastructure in the communities they serve. From some of the nation’s largest states, cities, and counties to rural school districts and small towns and nearly everything in between, our municipal banking and underwriting groups work with issuers to develop and implement financing strategies that allow them to operate and optimize the important work they do.
Tripepi Smith
Tripepi Smith is a provider of marketing, technology and public affairs consulting services. Combining years of experience in local government, technology and the marketing fields, Tripepi Smith offers a unique blend of skills to help our clients execute on their goals. The Tripepi Smith team stands ready to help you with your outreach campaigns, video production, content writing, messaging, graphic work, technology infrastructure and websites. It is a full range of services reflecting the breadth and skills of the Tripepi Smith team.
Gold Partners
DJS Media Consulting
DJS Media Consulting is a full-service video and sound production company, as well as a business consulting organization. Our mission is to help and encourage organizations to create their own media internships and programs tailored for their specific needs.
With over 30 years of production experience our team of experts can help your organization tell its story over a visual medium. Our services include video production, photography, UAS Imaging, live streaming, and training.
Examples of our work have been seen on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, CNBC, ABC News 10, CBS News, and ICMA TV.
Hanson Bridgett
As a California-born firm, it’s in our DNA to celebrate our people and clients and to take pride in the work we do to support the communities where we live and work.
From growing and developing our diverse team of attorneys and administrative professionals to fostering an environment where they can take real action on social justice issues and acts of service—we’re proud to be leading the way toward a more invested and inclusive industry.
Ultimate Kronos Group
HCM and workforce management solutions that unlock happier outcomes. Ultimate Kronos Group builds lifelong partnerships with customers to show what’s possible when businesses embrace our unique Life-work Technology™ approach as a critical part of investing in their people. And it starts by helping you find the right solution today, for tomorrow, and beyond.
Silver Partners
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 400 agencies in six states. Services include a variety of audits, analytical services and software products. To date, HdL has recovered a cumulative total of $2 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 provides unparalleled education, training, litigation and advisory services to California’s public agencies, educational institutions and nonprofits.
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.
MissionSquare Retirement
Founded in 1972 through the assistance of a Ford Foundation grant, MissionSquare Retirement’s mission is to help public sector employees build retirement security. It all began when the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) had the vision to create an organization dedicated to the retirement needs of public sector employees, and thus MissionSquare Retirement was formed. MissionSquare Retirement was founded to provide portable retirement benefits for city and county managers, enabling accumulated retirement assets to be transferred between employers. Today, MissionSquare Retirement serves more than 1.5 million participant accounts and approximately 9,800 plans across the country.
ResourceX
The ResourceX mission is to enable the compelling journey toward a better future by reprogramming your organization and vision to empower change agents to be ambitious to tackle society’s biggest challenges unencumbered by resource scarcity.
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.
Bronze 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.
We work with our clients to identify their needs, so we can recruit outstanding candidates for their consideration. A significant number of our clients have requested our assistance time and again as a result of the quality of our work. Through many years of experience, we have created an ideal recruitment process by combining our ability to help you to determine the direction of the search and the types of candidates you seek.
California Consulting
California Consulting a full-service grant writing firm has offices in Central and Southern California. Our team are experts in the fields of grant research and identification, preparing comprehensive and concise grant application packages, submitting grants, and post submission follow-up.
With over 200 years of cumulative experience our assertive grant writers have a proven track record of success and have mastered their skills of identifying, researching, and obtaining funding for significant projects at every level of government. Our grant writers are diligent and stay current on every Federal, State, and private grant available on a myriad of different topics and public policy areas. Our team has written over 1000 competitive successful grant applications that have been awarded.
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.
CalTRUST
CalTRUST is a JPA that was established to give California public agencies a tool to diversify their investment portfolios. CalTRUST currently holds over $2.2 billion in assets for over 140 California public agencies. CalTRUST’s five fund options include both stable and floating net asset value funds of varied time horizons to assist public agencies in having options to diversify their funds based on their investment objectives and cash flow needs. CalTRUST is endorsed by the California Special Districts Association, California State Association of Counties, and League of California Cities. CalTRUST assets are professionally managed by BlackRock.
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.
Euna Solutions
Euna Solutions – Supercharging the public sector through digitization. Elevate productivity, collaboration, and compliance with cloud-based solutions that are purpose-built to calm complexity and propel success—trusted by more than 2,000 public sector agencies across North America.
Interwest
Interwest offers a diverse scope of community development services that enables us to serve as a reliable one-source partner, efficiently tackling time-sensitive projects with customized solutions. With nearly 20 years of experience in the California market and the extended capabilities of our parent company, SAFEbuilt, we support a wide variety of clients with the highest level of service, expertise, and resources to municipalities and sovereign nations throughout the state.
MRG
MRG has invested in long-term partnerships with some of the most capable and knowledgeable practices in areas related to our core services. Through these partnerships, MRG hopes to offer its clients a greater depth of solutions to the challenges they face. Whether MRG teams with these practitioners or refers out to them, clients can be assured of great quality and customized solutions that are transformational, achievable, and with practical steps towards implementation.
NBS
Bio coming soon.
NHA Advisors
NHA Advisors, LLC provides strategic, objective and financially sound advice to public agencies throughout California. Consistently ranked as one of the most active municipal advisors*, we distinguish ourselves from the competition by delivering broad advisory and consulting services to meet the challenging and complex needs of our public agency clients. As a fiduciary, we develop comprehensive options and strategies that solve for maintaining/enhancing service levels, capital project needs, manage and contain costs and risks such as rising pension costs and promote fiscal sustainability through prudent policies.
The firm’s leadership averages 25+ years of public finance experience. NHA Advisors, LLC has worked with over 175 public agencies on hundreds of diverse projects, ranging from small $500,000 privately placed loans to larger $500 million bond financings.
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:
Polco
The Polco mission is to bring communities together around their most important topics on a single inclusive platform. We work to give leaders reliable insights through civil and constructive civic participation.
Our ultimate vision is to improve resident quality of life in communities everywhere.
Townsend Public Affairs
At TPA, we think our clients should get more rather than settle for less.
That is why we:
- Provide both legislative advocacy and grant writing services
- Offer lobbying and funding services in both Sacramento and Washington, DC
- Advance client agendas by serving as a seamless extension of staff
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.
