Research and Consulting Center

GFOA’s Research and Consulting Center (RCC) is nationally recognized for its comprehensive analytical and advisory services, as well as for research on issues specific to state and local governments’ financial, human resource, procurement, payroll and operational management. Since beginning operations in 1977, the RCC has assisted hundreds of cities, counties, public utilities; and other forms of government to create best practice solutions to meet their unique challenges.

Research and Consulting

RCC uses a unique combination of both "research" and "consulting" to leverage better outcomes. Our consultants engage in research to ensure we understand best practice, can advise clients based on data, and continually work to improve our services. Our researchers also engage in consulting projects to better understand the needs of local government. We fully understand that for recommendations to have value, they must be implemented and work to focus on pragmatic solutions to solve problems.

Together with its practitioner-focused, highly skilled staff and unparalleled access to the profession of public management, GFOA leverages its member network, ongoing research initiatives and lessons learned from our past consulting engagements to each new project. As a not-for-profit membership association, our mission-driven orientation means that we place your government's success above all else.

GFOA’s consulting services work in partnership with research and educational initiatives. The consulting work that we do provides real-world experience to inform research. The research provides resources to power consulting. With both research and consulting our goal is to improve capacity among or members and their organizations. Recently, GFOA has invested heavily in building our Financial Foundations Framework, which we expect to leverage on this engagement as a change management framework for promoting project collaboration, change management, and effective sustained governance.