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Partner Program

The Institute for Local Government's Partner Program provides a great opportunity to:

  1. Demonstrate your organization's commitment to good governance at the local level and
  2. Connect with and engage local decision-makers.

ILG's Partner Program provides us the opportunity to publicly thank our supporters through our website, events, webinars, and resources that support local officials and staff.

Interested in becoming an ILG Partner?

Review our Partner Program brochure, then contact Melissa Kuehne for more information.


Platinum Level Partners $15,000

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Best Best & Krieger LLP (BBK)

Trusted Partners and Strategists – these are the attorneys of Best Best & Krieger LLP (BBK), a national, full-service law firm focused on addressing the complex, multi-disciplinary issues faced by municipal, environment, business, public finance, public agency, business and private clients.

Among its many services, BBK provides thought leadership and insight on legal issues and trending topics of interest to local governments regarding regulatory decisions impacting their agencies. It is a privilege to be able to partner with organizations like ILG to serve as a trusted counsel to address multi-disciplinary issues and the regulatory challenges ILG members may face. BBK offers a variety of resources and industry knowledge, visit bbklaw.com/resources for more information.

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RWG

RWG delivers practical advice and solutions tailored to the unique needs of public entities. Working seamlessly across offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, Temecula, the Central Coast, and Sacramento, our dedicated team of experts provides the full scope of public law services.

RWG is pleased to be celebrating 70 years of exceptional service to our clients. With decades of experience, RWG is proficient in virtually every public law area. When industry depth matters, our integrated team of highly specialized lawyers are able to draw upon a wealth of experience and expertise to deliver optimal results tailored to the unique needs of our public and private sector clients. This cross-disciplinary approach allows us to leverage resources while also effectively managing time and costs.

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BDO

BDO State and Local Government Advisory Services (BDO) offers an array of services for State and Local Governments. They leverage deep experience working with, and for, agencies to tailor their services to the unique challenges governments face today.​ They assist state and local governments by providing comprehensive support in finance and administration, risk management, community and economic development, and grants management. Their services aim to maximize revenue utilization and improve government efficiency and effectiveness.​

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Hanson Bridgett

Hanson Bridgett has been serving clients since 1958, they are well known in Northern California and have earned a national reputation in many of their practice areas. They are a certified B Corp and are socially responsible members of their communities. The firm is driven by a commitment to diversity, charitable giving, pro-bono legal work and hands-on service. They are a dedicated green business and strive to make sustainable choices for all of their business decisions.

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Kosmont Companies

Kosmont Companies (“Kosmont”), certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Small Business Enterprise (SBE), is a nationally recognized real estate, finance, and economic development services firm founded in 1986 by Chairman & CEO Larry J. Kosmont. For four decades, Kosmont has provided advisory and transaction services to hundreds of public agencies and private sector clients, offering a full spectrum of expertise in real estate and financial advisory, market and fiscal analysis, retail advisory, special district analysis and formation (EIFD/CRIA/CRD/CFD), Surplus Land Act (SLA) compliance, negotiation assistance, deal structuring, project finance, and implementation services.

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Liebert Cassidy Whitmore

Liebert Cassidy Whitmore was founded in 1980 by attorneys, who had extensive experience in, and a passion for, representing public sector management in the areas of employment law and labor relations. Over the years they grew that practice to become one of California’s preeminent public management employment law firm. Some years ago they added an education law specialty to their practice to meet the needs of their school and college clients.

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Tripepi Smith

Tripepi Smith is a provider of marketing, technology and public affairs consulting services. Combining our years of experience in local government and the communication space, we offer a unique blend of skills to help our clients execute on their goals. The Tripepi Smith team stands ready to support your outreach campaigns, video production, content writing, messaging, graphic work, technology infrastructure, websites and more. Our vision is to inspire effective civic engagement, driven by a team of rock stars who are passionate about delivering communication and engagement services to the local government sector with speed and precision.

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CLEAResult

CLEAResult’s mission to change the way people use energy has held strong since 2003. Now as the largest provider of emission-reducing energy solutions across North America, we continue to give our clients and partners everything they need to make using less energy easy and accessible for everyone. We designed the Public Energy Performance (PEP) program to provide Public Agencies and schools, at no cost, energy efficiency services customized to their unique building needs, budget concerns, and savings goals.

PEP combines a traditional energy efficiency program with a holistic, whole facility approach. This no cost program will act as a single point of contact and will provide energy efficiency services, technical assistance, incentives, and On-Bill Financing to support your energy goals. PEP offers flexible incentive options with the traditional deemed, custom, and meter-based offerings along with our Strategic Energy Management (SEM) offering. SEM is our whole facility and campus approach that is an ongoing and continuous energy savings method, that extends and broadens the PEP program. SEM allows your organization to delve further into energy management and create lasting changes that serve your facilities ongoing energy savings and carbon reduction goals. Reach out to a program representative to learn more information!

Learn more about CLEAResult’s PEP program.
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Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley

Colantuono, Highsmith & Whatley is a municipal law firm with offices in Grass Valley, Orange County, Pasadena, Sacramento and Sonoma that represents public and private clients throughout California in municipal law, including public revenues, land use, elections, labor and employment, post redevelopment, housing, public works contracting, utility services, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act regarding Local Agency Formation Commissions, cannabis regulation and related public safety topics, and associated litigation. Our core commitment is to provide advice our clients find helpful, understandable, and fairly priced.

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Granicus

Granicus is the global leader in customer engagement and experience technology and services for the public sector. Now powering almost 30 billion digital interactions globally each year and connecting over 500,000 government professionals with 300 million opt-in subscribers, Granicus is proud to serve as a critical strategic partner to governments as they work to deliver equitable and secure government experiences. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and constituents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions and communicating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

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HdL Companies

Founded in 1983, HdL supports local government operations by delivering increased tax revenues, accurate management data for more informed decisions, expert economic analysis, and innovative software solutions. HdL’s team of professionals specialize in sales, use, and transactions taxes, property taxes, business license fees, transient occupancy taxes (TOT), short-term rental compliance, cannabis regulation and compliance, and economic development. The firm currently serves over 700 local government agencies nationwide and has recovered more than $3 billion in revenue for client agencies.

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Peckham and McKenney

Peckham and McKenney has a strong and well-recognized reputation as a leader of successful executive search services for local government.  Since 2004, and on behalf of elected Councils, City Managers and Department Heads throughout the West, we have successfully placed hundreds of local government professionals including City and County Managers and their Assistants, Police and Fire Chiefs, Department Heads, and mid-level Managers.  In addition, Peckham & McKenney has placed hundreds of executives and organizational leaders in the areas of public safety (police and fire), community development and planning, economic development, public works and engineering, finance, human resources, city clerk, information technology, library services, parks and recreation, and community services.

Peckham & McKenney was established on the premise that an executive search firm must be dedicated to providing its clients and applicants with professional service, as well as a personal, hands-on approach. Our business philosophy centers upon the understanding that this is a “people” related industry and that attention to others’ needs are the key to providing effective customer service.  We recognize that every agency and community we serve is unique, and the candidate selected for a position must “fit” the agency’s needs. As such, we take the time to become familiar with the community, organizational culture, and issues and challenges in order to identify and recruit the best candidates.

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Regional Government Services Authority (RGS)

Regional Government Services Authority (RGS) is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) serving the needs of cities, counties, special districts, joint powers authorities and other governmental entities since 2002. RGS works exclusively for the benefit of public agencies, providing a ready source of support and consulting services to meet the needs of its partner agencies in a broad range of disciplines and to help local governments meet three challenges: Decreasing revenues; Increasing demands (and costs) for services, and Loss of experienced staff.

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Social Pinpoint

Social Pinpoint is an online community engagement platform that brings Local Government and the public together. With Social Pinpoint’s flexible suite of digital tools, you can inform decision-making, encourage diversity and inclusion, and eliminate participation barriers to drive better project outcomes.

Since our launch in 2013, more than 700 organizations have run online community engagement projects through our platform, reaching 2.5 million citizens, and generating over 1.8 million inputs of valuable feedback and counting.

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Southern California Edison (SCE)

Southern California Edison (SCE) is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities serving approximately 15 million people in a 50,000 square-mile service area spanning from Mono County in the north to Orange County in the south, along the Pacific Ocean to the California border in the east. It is a longtime leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency and has been leading the transformation of the electric power industry toward a clean energy future. The utility continues to deepen its commitment to combating climate change by prioritizing its clean energy, transportation electrification, and wildfire mitigation goals. For more than 130 years, SCE has provided the region with safe, reliable, and affordable electric service.

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