Sanghi Consulting, Inc.
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NYS Citizens

Since 2006, we have worked in every corner of NYS government.  While on the project, it is our professional responsibility to suggest solutions that directly improve the lives of NYS citizens; sometimes, our suggestions are not acted upon.

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Once our project ends and our contractual obligations have been fulfilled, our team sometimes feels some work has been left undone. In these cases, we independently pursue non-commercial projects that we hope benefit NYS’s citizens directly.  These are often the initiatives that other commercial lobbying interests don’t pursue.

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Based on our direct experience in the inner working of many NYS public policy areas, we hope to give back to NYS citizens in two ways:

 

Public Policy Advocacy

We allocate 50% of our annual lobbying budget to non-commercial project initiatives. This includes collaborative working sessions with NYS leaders to nurture improvements to NYS public sector value delivery and the pursuit of legislative remedies to intractable problems.

Our current inventory of Public Policy Advocacy projects includes:

  • Ensuring NYS’s Paid Family Leave program is affordable and equitable

  • Improving transparency in NYS’s commercial healthcare insurance markets to reduce premiums and improve consumer decision making

  • Reducing waste in large-scale NYS IT projects by adopting Federal requirements around Modular Contracting

  • Small Business and MWBE Procurement Reform to improve equity and drive NYS economic development

 

FOIL + Transparency

Sometimes, even collaborative lobbying does not make a difference. In these cases, we allocate a portion of our legal budget to pursue long-running Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) actions in NYS. These FOIL requests are designed to bring light to the foundational data that we hope may ignite change once uncovered.

We publish these FOIL results and data sets in an “open source” posture. We hope that by making available data that is difficult to acquire, we accelerate non-profit public advocacy in their endeavors to being about meaningful change.