Heartwired: A Strategy Guide for Change-Makers
With our partners at Wonder: Strategies for Good, we have developed a new strategy guide examining how change-makers have used research to hasten a tipping point on pressing issues of the day.
Goodwin Simon Strategic Research is an independent opinion research firm with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco’s East Bay. GSSR Partners Paul Goodwin and Amy Simon and Senior Research Directors John Whaley and Rebekah Orr have decades of experience in polling, social and political marketing, policy analysis, program evaluation, and communications strategy for clients in the public and private sectors.
We are hiring! GSSR is seeking a Project Manager/Research Analyst to engage in strategic political and communications research with the firm’s Oakland, CA-based partner and senior research directors. More details here.
Changing Minds on Tough Issues
Over the last decade, we have developed a cutting-edge approach to unpacking emotional reactions and developing effective messaging around complex and socially controversial issues.
Cutting-Edge Methodologies
A polling firm is only as good as the numbers it provides. We apply rigorous methodological standards to all of the research we do, since accurate numbers are critical for a winning strategy.
What We Do Works
Our clients come back year after year, and refer others to us. More importantly, our clients have been succeeding in their election campaigns, public sector programs, and union or nonprofit advocacy efforts.