LSG Announces Partnership with Leahy Management Group
LEAHY MANAGEMENT GROUP AND THE LIBERTY SQUARE GROUP FORM STRATEGIC
Tolland, CT and Boston (April 29, 2009) – Leahy Management Group, a Connecticut-based full-service association management firm serving public interest organizations, and the Liberty Square Group, a Boston-based company specializing in public affairs, today announced a strategic alliance that will increase the scope and range of their client service offerings.
A natural partnership between two organizations rooted in politics, this relationship complements the respective expertise of each firm; current and prospective clients from both organizations will have broader access to a wide range of services in the public interest and all areas of strategic communications, with expanded political reach throughout New England as well.
“We are excited to partner with the Liberty Square Group,” said James P. Leahy, CAE, President and Founder of Leahy Management Group, LLC. “The Liberty Square Group’s public relations services enhance and strengthen our ability to offer comprehensive public issues management for New England’s non-profit and public service organizations while strengthening our political presence throughout Massachusetts and in Washington, DC.”
“Leahy Management Group’s comprehensive approach to non-profit and public management greatly enhances the value we can provide to our public interest clients – we look forward to working closely together. Additionally, Leahy Management Group is a great resource for our clients in addressing issues before the Connecticut General Assembly and with their delegation in Congress.” said Scott M. Ferson, President of the Liberty Square Group.
About Leahy Management Group, LLC
Leahy Management Group, LLC is a full-service association management firm committed to public interest organizations focused on promoting social justice, public health, environmental protection, youth, the arts and our cultural heritage. From basic administrative and clerical support to complex issue advocacy campaigns, Leahy Management Group can deliver professional results to make public interest organizations more successful. Further information is available at www.leahymg.com.
About The Liberty Square Group, Inc.
The Liberty Square Group specializes in public affairs and strategic communication, helping private and public sector entities develop and execute government, public and community strategies in order to achieve consensus, support and funding. Further information is available at www.libertysquaregroup.com.
About James P. Leahy
As founding partner and president of Leahy Management Group, Jim Leahy, CAE brings more than 20 years experience in association management, lobbying and grassroots organizing to our client efforts. With an extensive history representing nonprofit groups, Jim specializes in building strong organizations, as well as all aspects of advocacy efforts, including designing and implementing effective lobbying and grassroots issue campaigns.
Jim is a Certified Association Executive, a designation from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). This is the highest level of professional achievement available from the Society. CAEs must demonstrate a high level of knowledge, ethical fitness, and leadership to earn and maintain the designation.
Professional accomplishments include a successful effort to secure $5 million in state funding for the renovation of the historic Westport Country Playhouse. Mr. Leahy may be best known as the former executive director of the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group known as ConnPIRG. During his tenure, the statewide environmental and consumer group enjoyed the most significant growth in its history. A key victory during his leadership was the passage of the first in the nation toy safety labeling law to protect children under the age of three from small toy parts. The legislation served as the basis for federal legislation, extending the protection to children across the country.
Jim is a graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. A native of Milford, Connecticut, he lives in Tolland, Connecticut.
About Scott M. Ferson
Scott Ferson is President of The Liberty Square Group, and provides strategic public and government relations counsel to a broad range of clients. Mr. Ferson brings over twenty years of experience working with corporations, elected and appointed officials, community groups, and the media to reach solutions to problems both straightforward and complex, through a strong understanding of how the public responds to information.
A former Press Secretary to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, he has also provided communications counsel to Lieutenant Governor Timothy P. Murray and Congressman Stephen F. Lynch. He has also been the spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on their Boston Temple Construction, for Christy Mihos during his successful battle to retain his seat on the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. His corporate clients include AIG, GenCorp, Beacon Capital Partners, and the Center for Technology Commercialization.
Mr. Ferson has worked on numerous campaigns, including the Patrick/Murray campaign in 2006 and the 1988 and 2004 presidential campaigns of Congressman Richard Gephardt. As a Democratic strategist, he has appeared on Channel 2's Greater Boston, News Night on New England Cable News, CN8, and Fox 25.
A resident of Belmont Massachusetts, he currently serves on the town's Library Foundation Board and is a past chair of the board of the First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
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