MSG serves as the lead communications partner under the U.S. Department of Justice’s $83 million Communications Support Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). Through eight active task orders, MSG supports strategic communications, content development, event planning, and public education initiatives across multiple DOJ offices, including the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

MSG supports States, U.S. territories, tribes, and localities in delivering an effective mental health and substance use-related response to disasters through the delivery of disaster behavioral health training and technical assistance, resources, and consultation.

A multifaceted training and technical assistance project supporting the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) and their 110 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) and 8 Tribal TANF Child Welfare nationwide grantees that provide structured programming and wraparound services to individuals, couples, and families to support participants in attaining self-sufficiency and improving outcomes for children. Manhattan Strategy Group (MSG) manages communications, project development, virtual and in-person group events, and individualized technical assistance.

MSG worked with the U.S. Department of Education to improve access to and quality of professional development and training content for 21st CCLC practitioners. MSG designed an online portal and used it to prepare and distribute research-based professional development, training, industry promising practices, and technical assistance materials. MSG also developed a Community of Practice that included online webinars, discussion threads, and a coaching module to enable peer-to-peer learning and exchange.

Develop a solution to showcase how alternative payment networks networks (Square Cash, Google e Wallet, etc.) can be stitched together and incorporated into existing payment processes, with an end-goal of making all payments entirely electronic.

MSG developed a tool to measure the combined cost of housing and transportation in 950+ metropolitan regions nationwide, as well as investigated potential uses to improve policy and funding decisions.

Management Information System (MIS) analysis and evaluation of Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) system capabilities relating to structure, data storage, and retrieval; data collection and reporting procedures; and data elements used for assessment and monitoring.

Comprehensive training infrastructure to support Treasury Certifying Officers in making payments that are legal, proper, and correct.

Develop a benchmarking methodology and tool that will enable federal agencies to compare the performance and cost of managing transactions inhouse against the industry leaders (federal shared service providers (SSPs)).