Advocacy Services

TFG offers a broad range of advocacy services to help individual clients, consortia of clients, and national organizations prepare and bring their messages to Washington D.C. We help put our clients face-to-face with decision-makers and program officers that control federal funding and direct policy. We obtain key information to help clients ask the right questions of key decision-makers. TFG gives our clients a competitive advantage by helping them make their visits to Capitol Hill as efficient and effective as possible.

Case Studies

National Association of Towns and Townships

An update to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices included a provision requiring state and local governments to replace warning and ground-mounted guide signs with signs meeting a minimum retroreflectivity standard. The change triggered significant costs to local governments. Working on behalf of the National Association of Towns and Townships, TFG led successful efforts to eliminate these requirements. Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Transportation changed the rule to require a minimum retroreflectivity standard for replacing signs only when those signs reach the end of their useful life.

R3 Water Partners

The R3 Water Partners, comprised of the City of Roseville, the City of Folsom, and the San Juan Water District in California, banded together to present a uniform regional approach on water supply. The nearly fifteen year partnership has generated a variety of successes for the region including advocating for the use of forecast based operations at Folsom Reservoir and the implementation of modern watershed monitoring technologies in the American River watershed and creating a specific authority under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to enhance water supply delivery infrastructure in the region.

Manufacturing Alliance of Communities

Working on behalf of the Manufacturing Alliance of Communities (MAC), TFG has successfully advocated for several major policy victories, from the creation of "manufacturing hubs" supported by the Obama Administration to the expansion of federal resources to revitalize and build infrastructure. The MAC is also the visionary behind the Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response ("RACER") Trust, the third largest holder of industrial property in America and the largest environmental response and remediation trust in U.S. history, with over $700 million in assets.

Services & Issue Areas of Expertise

Transportation

Broadband & Telecommunications

Economic & Community Development/Housing

Environment & Sustainability

Health Care & Social Services

Public Safety

Disaster Preparedness & Recovery

Flood Issues

Water Resources

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ICMA Scholarship Named in Honor of TFG Founder, William Ferguson, Jr.

Alex Yiannoutsos / Thursday, February 1, 2024

/ Categories: News, News & Alerts

ICMA Scholarship Named in Honor of TFG Founder, William Ferguson, Jr.

As TFG CEO for over 30 years, William Ferguson, Jr. launched the full tuition scholarship for ICMA members in 2011.

TFG is proud to offer a scholarship for the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executives in Local Government Program to an ICMA member. Named in honor of TFG founder, William Ferguson, Jr., the William Ferguson, Jr. Scholarship covers the full $17,400 program fee.

“Bill Ferguson built TFG from the ground up,” said Roger Gwinn, TFG CEO. “Starting with three clients in 1982, the firm has grown to a 45-person staff that works with over 160 communities across the nation. His commitment to excellence in local government and fostering future leadership is commemorated through this prestigious ICMA scholarship named in this honor.”

The Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executives in State and Local Government program helps senior-level city and county executives invigorate their state and local government leadership and policy-making skills. TFG is an ICMA strategic partner.

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On January 27, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Trump issued a memorandum titled “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs.” The directive mandates Federal agencies to temporarily suspend the obligation and disbursement of federal financial assistance while conducting a comprehensive review of programs and awards to ensure alignment with the administration’s policies and priorities. As part of this review, agencies are also instructed to temporarily suspend the issuance of new program solicitations.

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