Firm Facts: Founded: February 2001 Private Corporation Corporate Location: Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. Principal and Chairman: Keith D. Carr, MPA. Mission To provide our clients with high quality services that optimizes their productivity and ensures that their objectives are achieved in an efficient and expeditious manner. Vision We are committed to quality service delivery at the highest levels and deliver our services with an uncompromising integrity that is trusted and respected by our customers, employees, and community. About the Firm Forefront Consulting LLC (Forefront) works with government agencies, institutions, and non-profit organizations throughout the nation, providing a broad range of professional business services. Forefront combines a deep understanding of the client’s mission and environment with expert services and an absolute commitment to client success. The firm’s public sector work has significant impact—enhancing cost effectiveness, social well-being, and health and safety of youth, families and communities around nation. The Forefront team’s years of professional experience totals more than fifty (50) years. Today, each of the company’s consultants average fourteen (14) years of experience. And Forefront’s service areas include program audits, compliance monitoring and evaluation, performance measures and indicators, screening services, organizational assessments, training and staffing. Among the many strengths that distinguish Forefront in the consulting marketplace are our: • Extensive business and human/social service industry expertise. • Broad service offerings. • Proven and experienced consulting team. By enhancing our consulting and outsourcing expertise with alliances and other capabilities, we help clients succeed in every part of their businesses, from planning to implementation to day-to-day operations. Core Values Our Core Values have shaped the culture and defined the character of our company, guiding how we govern ourselves and make decisions: • Quality People: Attracting and developing the best talent for our business, stretching our people and developing a "can do" attitude. • Integrity: Inspiring trust by taking responsibility, acting ethically, and encouraging honest and open debate. • Respect for Others: Valuing diversity, ensuring an interesting and inclusive environment, and treating people as we would like to be treated ourselves. • Client – Consultant Value Creation: Improving our clients’ and consultants’ business performance, creating long-term, client-consultant win-win relationships and focusing on increasing the quality of life and the execution of excellence. Client and Consultant Focused Among other distinctive qualities, Forefront utilizes an employee-focused approach to improving job satisfaction and the quality of life for its personnel. Forefront practices a local business model that utilizes consultants living and working in the same communities as the clients they serve. This model affords several benefits including increased job satisfaction for our consultants and responsiveness to our clients. To this end, Forefront has created a team approach that creates greater and more long-term employee job satisfaction and increased performance and productivity. The outcome of this method has created stronger client-consultant relationships, which has resulted in increased growth for the company.