Policy Advocacy CCSA demonstrates a strong policy and advocacy focus, including engagement in high-impact actions like the 2024 lawsuit against LA Unified and leading equity and innovation awards. This indicates demand for policy analysis, regulatory tracking, and government affairs support across its charter network. A strong fit exists for services such as policy briefs, lobbying support, stakeholder outreach programs, and compliance consulting tailored to nonprofit charter schools.
Training & Communications The Media Lab launched in 2024 to provide free trainings in communications, media relations, and marketing for member schools, signaling an ongoing need to build communications capacity across a sizable network. There is opportunity to upsell paid training, develop an LMS, and offer content production, PR consulting, and digital asset libraries. Additional services could include marketing automation, measurement dashboards, and crisis communications planning for charter schools.
Conference & Events CCSA engages in the annual California Charter Schools Conference and recognizes leaders through awards, underscoring a strong events program with broad reach. This creates opportunities to provide event technology, sponsorship management, exhibitor services, and hybrid or virtual event capabilities to expand attendance and sponsor value. Services to propose include registration platforms, lead retrieval, sponsor management, and streaming or on-site engagement tools.
Fundraising Tech CCSA relies on fundraising and marketing technology, including Click & Pledge and Adobe Experience Cloud, indicating readiness to optimize donor outreach and digital campaigns. There is potential to offer CRM integration, fundraising analytics, campaign optimization, and website performance enhancements to multiply giving across its charter school network. Emphasize data privacy, security, and scalable solutions for a nonprofit association of this size.
Data & Research CCSA participates in data-driven initiatives such as The Face of California Charter Public School Teachers and the ChartersAt30 celebration, highlighting a commitment to research and stakeholder storytelling. This presents opportunities for data collection, survey tooling, dashboards, and research partnerships to inform policy, communications, and member services. Consider offering research services, survey platforms, grant-funded studies, and impact dashboards tailored to charter networks.