For Government and Public Affairs

Strengthen Stakeholder Alignment. Deliver Measurable Impact.

Government and public affairs leaders must balance stakeholder expectations, community priorities, compliance issues, and organizational goals.

Next Street helps organizations build credible, data-driven strategies that strengthen stakeholder alignment, reduce risk, and deliver measurable community impact.

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The Challenge

Why Projects Face Public and Political Risk

Many organizations struggle to align stakeholder expectations, demonstrate community impact, and deliver on public commitments.

This can lead to:

Limited visibility into community and economic impact

Misalignment between project execution and public/community benefits

Fragmented engagement across internal and external stakeholders

Project delays, opposition, and reputational risk

Difficulty demonstrating and delivering measurable outcomes

The takeaway: The challenge isn't project intent, it's stakeholder alignment, credible impact, and effective execution.

Our Approach

Turn Ecosystem Insights into Measurable Impact

Next Street helps organizations gain insights into ecosystems, build solutions and resources, align and coordinate stakeholders, and deliver measurable community impact.

We help organizations:

Assess Ecosystems: Identify gaps, barriers, and opportunities

Activate Solutions: Build programs, platforms, and resources that scale.

Align Stakeholders: Coordinate partners and delivery measurable impact.

The result: Stronger ecosystems, greater stakeholder alignment, and measurable community and economic outcomes.

The Solution

Turn Community Investment into Measurable Impact

We help organizations understand community needs, engage small businesses, and deliver scalable programs that create measurable impact.

Ecosystem Assessment & Strategies

Gain data-driven insights into local ecosystems, identify gaps and opportunities, and align initiatives with business priorities, public commitments, and economic development goals.

Small Business Readiness Tool

Understand the businesses you're serving. Assess business readiness, identify barriers to growth, and tailor programs and resources to better support small businesses and improve outcomes.

Small Business Resource Platform

Connect small businesses to funding, advisory services, and growth opportunities through a centralized platform that increases participation, improves transparency, and measures impact.

Small Business Success Accelerator

Deliver targeted business development, advisory services, and technical assistance that strengthen capabilities and create lasting economic opportunity.

The Solution

Turn Community Investment into Measurable Impact

We help organizations understand community needs, engage small businesses, and deliver scalable programs that create measurable impact.

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Ecosystem Assessment & Strategies

Gain data-driven insights into local ecosystems, identify gaps and opportunities, and align initiatives with business priorities, public commitments, and economic development goals.

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Small Business Readiness Tool

Understand the businesses you're serving. Assess business readiness, identify barriers to growth, and tailor programs and resources to better support small businesses and improve outcomes.

Emergency health relief

Small Business Resource Platform

Connect small businesses to funding, advisory services, and growth opportunities through a centralized platform that increases participation, improves transparency, and measures impact.

Emergency health relief

Small Business Success Accelerator

Deliver targeted business development, advisory services, and technical assistance that strengthen capabilities and create lasting economic opportunity.

The Solution

Turn Community Investment into Measurable Impact

We help organizations understand community needs, engage small businesses, and deliver scalable programs that create measurable impact.

Ecosystem Assessment & Strategies

Gain data-driven insights into local ecosystems, identify gaps and opportunities, and align initiatives with business priorities, public commitments, and economic development goals.

Small Business Readiness Tool

Understand the businesses you're serving. Assess business readiness, identify barriers to growth, and tailor programs and resources to better support small businesses and improve outcomes.

Small Business Resource Platform

Connect small businesses to funding, advisory services, and growth opportunities through a centralized platform that increases participation, improves transparency, and measures impact.

Small Business Success Accelerator

Deliver targeted business development, advisory services, and technical assistance that strengthen capabilities and create lasting economic opportunity.

Proven Impact

Supporting High-Stakes Projects and Public-Facing Initiatives

Next Street helps public sector organizations strengthen community engagement, increase local business participation, reduce implementation risk, and deliver measurable compliance and economic impact across complex initiatives.

Case Study

Starbucks Community Fund

Helped Starbucks launch its $100 million Community Resilience Fund to expand capital access and strengthen small business ecosystems.

Case Study

Multi-City Ecosystem Assessment

Partnered with Common Future and local stakeholders to develop city-level ecosystem assessments and a national report.

Insights

Middle Market Report

This report highligts how middle-market firms represent just 1% of U.S. businesses but generate one-third of private-sector GDP and employment.

Scale Impact. Measure Results.

Deliver measurable outcomes for your business and the communities you serve.

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