Annual Legislative Prep Package

Built for nonprofit leaders & policy teams who know session matters and want a clear plan before it begins.

What This Is

Legislative sessions reward preparation long before deadlines compress options and urgency replaces judgment. Yet many organizations enter session reacting, busy, engaged, and committed, but without the clarity and internal discipline that consistently improves outcomes.

The Annual Legislative Prep Package is designed to help nonprofit leaders and policy teams step back before session begins and assess their readiness with honesty and structure. It offers a strategic framework, diagnostic tools, and practical examples drawn from real legislative dynamics.

This is not a checklist or a compliance exercise. It is a way of thinking about session as a sequence of decisions made under pressure and preparing accordingly.

What’s Inside

The package includes four core components, designed to be used together or independently:

Legislative Readiness Framework

A clear, six-part framework that outlines what prepared organizations do differently, covering priorities, policy landscape awareness, power dynamics, internal decision-making, narrative discipline, and rapid-response capacity.

Legislative Readiness Self-Assessment

A short, forwardable diagnostic that leadership and policy teams can use to identify strengths, gaps, and areas where additional preparation would materially improve effectiveness.

Practice Examples

Concrete, anonymized examples illustrating the difference between reactive engagement and strategic preparation across common session scenarios.

Strategic Guidance on Preparation

Plain-language insight into why legislative prep often fails, what actually works, and how organizations can enter session with clarity rather than urgency.

Who This Is For

This package is designed for:

• Nonprofit executive directors

• Policy and advocacy directors

• Leadership teams preparing for an upcoming legislative session

• Organizations that want to engage session deliberately, not reactively

It is most useful for teams that value preparation, candid assessment, and internal alignment before session begins.

Who This Is Not For

This package may not be a good fit for organizations seeking:

• Last-minute fixes once session is underway

• Purely transactional advocacy support

• High-visibility activity without strategic discipline

• Preparation without leadership engagement

Legislative readiness works best when leaders are willing to invest time upfront to reduce risk later.

Access the Package

2026 Annual Legislative Prep Package (PDF)

The document is ungated and intended to be shared internally.

Optional Next Step

For organizations that want to go a step further, I offer a limited number of pre-session strategy consults designed to help teams sanity-check readiness, identify pressure points, and clarify where preparation will have the greatest impact.

These conversations are exploratory and practical. The goal is clarity—not commitment.

If this approach aligns with how your team thinks about legislative work, I welcome the conversation.

Legislative sessions move quickly. Preparation is what allows teams to move deliberately.