Research
Public input identifies solution for facility adjacent to state park
Situation: Emmetsburg Community Development Corporation (ECDC), the economic development agency for City of Emmetsburg (Iowa), in 2009 retained Hanser & Associates – and our Des Moines-based partners, TPG Companies, Inc. for financial feasibility and RDG Planning & Design for architectural planning – to produce a feasibility study and actionable plan regarding the outdated clubhouse/community center [...]
Super PR for super-park
Situation: The State of Iowa’s legislature and Department of Natural Resources set public policy in 1999 to develop a “Super-park,” a publicly owned year-round resort facility to be operated by a private management company. Centerville, Iowa-based CVRC&D, the local economic development agency in Southern Iowa on the shores of 11,000-acre Lake Rathbun, needed to build [...]
Building public consensus regarding health priorities
Situation: Polk County Health Department is charged with delivering public health services in Iowa’s most populous county and implementing health improvement programs as defined in an ambitious ten-year plan. Elected officials and Department management were charged in 2008 to create a new road map – Healthy Polk 2020 – to identify future health priorities while [...]
Public input supports city’s parks plan
Situation: Hanser & Associates was retained in 2000 to support the City of West Des Moines’ Parks staff and their landscape architecture consultant, Dunbar-Jones, to gather public input for updating the city’s Parks Master Plan. Please Register or Login to read the rest of this content.
Public input supports community/performing arts center
Situation: Hanser & Associates was retained in 2004-2005 to manage the overall process of forming an advisory committee and supporting all of the work of the committee – to assess the feasibility of a Community Center and Performing Arts Center that would be jointly operated by the City of West Des Moines and West Des [...]
Public input supports city’s community center
Situation: City of Urbandale, a rapidly growing and affluent suburb in the Des Moines metro area, was confronted with an aging swimming pool complex that needed extensive repairs at the same time community leaders identified a need for a community recreation center. PR Action: Hanser & Associates in 2005 conducted a feasibility study assessing the [...]
Recycling campaign supports fee change – participation remained high
Situation: Metro Waste Authority is the waste processing agency for Central Iowa. In addition to managing the area’s solid and toxic waste disposal, Metro Waste Authority (MWA) administers the recycling program for Des Moines and most of its 14 suburbs. MWA retained Hanser & Associates for communication strategy and counsel when fee structures for recycling [...]
Church members better connected through Communications Audit findings
Situation: Established in 1844, the Iowa Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church (IUMC) is one of the oldest organized religions in the state of Iowa. In recent years, the IUMC recognized that its communication vehicles have not been as effective as they could be, yet struggled to determine which vehicles were ineffective and how [...]
Outcomes of survey measuring public support sway long-term plans of Board
Situation: Hanser & Associates was retained in 2005 by the Harrison County Conservation Board, when the board sought public input to substantially influence the Master Plan and other long-range plans being developed for the board. The Harrison County Conservation Board, established in 1967, oversees staff that operates 18 county conservation areas located on 1,316 acres. [...]
Health care system generates support and funds for service expansion
Situation: Catholic Health System (CHS), a five-hospital health care system based in Buffalo, NY, serves the cardiac and other health care needs of Western New York. The successful system, formed by the 1998 merger of three Catholic hospital systems, has consolidated hospitals and services, introduced advancements in cardiac, neonatal and other services; increased patients served, [...]