Suffolk County Government

In 2017 Suffolk County passed Charter Law 42, a matching grant fund program that provides public funds to County citizens in an equitable and transparent way. The County’s landmark program empowers everyday citizens to run for city office by providing them with campaign finance supports from their community, mitigating the limitations of access to wealth or special interest groups, providing threshold requirements, spending limits and strictly ensuring enforced reporting requirements are met.

In partnership and support of the Suffolk County CFB, PivotPath provides promotion efforts to increase the visibility and communications of Suffolk County’s campaign matching fund program to engage, educate, and empower grassroots citizens by providing them with the opportunity to become an agent of change in the county through a political leadership role.

Impact: Though the PivotPath team poured tirelessly into the program by providing website content, public relations, crisis management, social media planning, strategic planning, and graphic design, the Suffolk County Legislature overrode County Executive Steve Bellone’s veto of IR 1416, a law that eliminates the county’s public campaign financing program in July 2022.