Issue Advocacy

Washington Climate Legislation
With the short 2008 legislative session in the offing, a coalition of statewide environmental groups - including Washington Conservation Voters, Washington Environmental Council and Climate Solutions - needed assistance gauging public opinion on reducing global warming pollution in Washington state. They turned to Grove Insight for strategic advice and research. Our polling provided the strategic foundation and message frame that helped propel the Climate Action and Green Jobs plan through the legislature.

Communications Workers of America
Grove Insight has helped lay the foundation for CWA’s Speed Matters Campaign, which seeks to provide high speed Internet access to every American household. This seminal effort involved focus groups across the country and a national poll designed to understand how Americans perceive the Internet, what advantages they believe it brings them, and how important it is to them personally. Our work has assisted CWA in identifying key messages and outreach strategies to help move Internet expansion efforts in individual states and the nation as a whole.

Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Thirty-eight years into its planned 40-year lifespan, it was clearly time to shut down the Vermont Yankee power plant. Not surprisingly, the plant’s corporate owner Entergy wasn’t willing to go without a fight, and petitioned regulators to extend the life of the aging, leaking reactor. With a vote of either legislative chamber able to veto the extension, VPIRG took the lead in an aggressive legislative campaign, and they called in Grove Insight to help. Our research and strategic advice led to the development of a strong message, on which we briefed staff, volunteer leaders, organizational partners and elected officials to ensure message discipline. Their hard work paid off, when in February 2010 the Vermont State Senate voted overwhelmingly (26 to 4) to close Vermont Yankee as scheduled.

The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde
Grove Insight has an extensive background working with tribal organizations. In the case of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Grove Insight provided the research and advice behind a 1996 public and opinion leader campaign that ultimately led to a groundbreaking compact, including a new casino and a community development fund where the tribe pays the equivalent of the corporate income tax rate. The Oregonian touted the advertising campaign we helped develop, saying that “Spirit Mountain Casino puts a human face on tribal gaming … showing how the casino is improving the lives of Indians and non-Indians.”

We Have Also Served…
Alliance for a Better Minnesota
Alliance for Human Services (King County, WA)
Alternatives to Growth Oregon
America Votes (Minnesota)
American Cancer Society
American Lung Association of Minnesota
American Lung Association of Oregon
Americans for Gun Safety
Arizona Democratic Party
Association for Nonsmokers (Minnesota)
Basic Rights Oregon
California Consumer Attorneys
Campaign for America’s Wilderness
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Citizen’s Utility Alliance
Clean Water Action Alliance of Minnesota
Climate Solutions
Columbia River Crossing
Conservation Strategies
Defend Oregon Coalition
Florida Justice Association (formerly the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers)
Forest Water Alliance
Friends of the Columbia Gorge
Gates Foundation (Sound Families)
Heritage Forests Campaign
Human Rights Campaign
League of Conservation Voters, Oregon
Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy (ME3)
North Portland Neighborhood Services Division
Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association
Oregon Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon Environmental Partnership
Oregon Health Forum
Oregon Housing
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
Oregonians for Health Security
Our Oregon
People for Puget Sound
Pew Wilderness
Portlanders for Accountability
Project New West
San Franciscans for Educational Excellence
Save Our Wild Salmon
Save the Bay
Tillamook State Forest
Oregon Tribal Gaming Alliance
Voters for Choice Education Fund
WEAVE
W. Alton Jones Foundation
Washington Breathe Alliance
Washington Conservation Voters
Washington Environmental Council
Washington State Trial Lawyers Association
Waterwatch
Wyoming Trail Lawyers Association