Frontline Impact works with unions, nonprofits, campaigns, public-sector leaders, government agencies, and mission-driven organizations navigating complex, high-stakes challenges.

Our goal is simple: help organizations and agencies become more effective to create a positive and lasting impact.

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Planning & Problem Solving

We help leaders meet complex challenges with practical plans that can actually be implemented. Whether you’re navigating organizational change, advancing a major initiative, responding to a crisis, or preparing for what’s next, we bring experienced judgment, honest advice, deep connections, and a relentless focus on execution. We pride ourselves in being always available to problem solve and act as your sounding board.

Building Alignment

We help organizations build relationships and facilitate productive conversations across labor, government, nonprofits, business, and community organizations. We have broad experience helping leaders convene coalitions and navigate difficult stakeholder dynamics. We help build trust, create alignment, and create stakeholder buy-in to move projects forward.

Union Capacity Building

We work alongside union leaders and Taft-Hartley benefit funds to strengthen member engagement, improve operational planning, support leadership, navigate organizational change, and tackle ambitious campaigns. Having spent our careers leading unions ourselves, we bring practical experience and an understanding of what it takes to build strong institutions and support longterm growth.

Analysis & Implementation

We provide the research, analysis, and practical work products that help organizations move from ideas to action. Our work includes organizational assessments, stakeholder mapping, policy and bargaining research, campaign plans, board presentations, briefing materials, and strategic reports. We specialize in turning stakeholder feedback into clear insights and practical recommendations.

Our Services

  • Bringing structure, clarity, and strategic thinking to difficult decisions and organizational goals.

    • Strategic planning

    • Organizational assessments

    • Labor movement outreach and relationship building

    • Executive advising

    • Governance and board strategy

    • Crisis planning and response

    • Public policy and advocacy strategy

    • Initiative and campaign planning

    • Leadership transitions

    • Scenario planning

    • Facilitation of strategic planning processes

    • Power mapping

    • Strategic connections

  • Building the relationships, stakeholder processes, and consensus needed to move important work forward.

    • Coalition building

    • Labor organization outreach and engagement

    • Stakeholder engagement

    • Community engagement

    • Executive facilitation

    • Board retreats and planning sessions

    • Partnership development

    • Consensus building

    • Cross-sector collaboration

    • Public engagement strategies

    • Government relations

    • Political strategy

    • Strategic communications support

  • Helping labor organizations build the systems, leadership, and engagement needed for long-term success.

    • Organizational development

    • Executive leadership support

    • Governance and executive board development

    • Strategic planning for unions

    • Trustee and Taft-Hartley governance

    • Professional trustee services

    • Staff negotiations

    • Benefit fund strategy and coordination

    • Organizational structure and staffing

    • Collective bargaining preparation and support

    • Staff mediation and conflict management

    • Internal policy review and drafting

    • Member engagement and leadership development strategies

    • Political and legislative programs

    • Organizing and growth strategy

    • Leadership transitions and succession planning

    • Campaign planning and execution

    • Government relations

    • Endorsement process assistance

    • Operational improvement

  • Turning ideas into practical work products that drive decisions and action.

    • Policy research and analysis

    • Stakeholder mapping

    • Organizational assessments

    • Landscape and environmental scans

    • Best practice research

    • Strategic reports and white papers

    • Briefing memos and executive presentations

    • Implementation plans and roadmaps

    • Framework development

    • Meeting summaries and recommendations

    • Turning stakeholder feedback into clear insights and practical recommendations

    • Project management and implementation support

Meet Frontline Impact

Sarah Cherin

Sarah Cherin has spent more than two decades leading successful public policy and advocacy campaigns across Washington State. Her strategic leadership has helped secure some of the state’s most significant policy victories, including Marriage Equality, Paid Sick Leave and Minimum Wage, and Paid Family and Medical Leave. From city halls and county councils to the state legislature and statewide ballot campaigns, Sarah has built and won campaigns that deliver lasting change. With a background in social work, Sarah brings a people-centered approach to her work. Her areas of expertise include coalition building, government relations, independent expenditure campaigns, collective bargaining, legislative strategy, stakeholder engagement, and campaign management.

Joe Mizrahi

Joe Mizrahi has spent more than two decades leading complex campaigns, organizations, and public policy initiatives that strengthen workers, communities, and public institutions. As a union leader, organizer, and elected member of the Seattle School Board, he has led high stakes negotiations and overseen large organizations and multimillion dollar budgets. Joe has helped build broad coalitions to challenge corporate grocery mergers, secure funding for K-12 public education, and win stronger staffing standards for grocery and healthcare workers. With a legal education and extensive executive leadership experience, his areas of expertise include strategic planning, collective bargaining, research and analysis, campaign development, organizational governance, fiduciary oversight, and stakeholder engagement.

Sarah and Joe

Sarah Cherin and Joe Mizrahi have worked together for more than 17 years, partnering on some of the most significant labor, political, and public policy campaigns in Washington State. Together, they have helped lead successful efforts to advance landmark legislation, win high stakes political and ballot measure campaigns, negotiate transformative collective bargaining agreements, and build durable coalitions capable of achieving a lasting impact. Their combined experience spans government, labor, nonprofit, and community leadership, giving them a unique ability to navigate complex challenges and deliver practical, results driven strategies. Through Frontline Impact Group, they are excited to bring that experience to organizations looking to solve difficult problems, build stronger partnerships, and turn ambitious goals into meaningful outcomes.

More About Us

  • We believe the best work happens when values are aligned. That’s why we choose our partners carefully, working only with organizations, leaders, and coalitions whose goals strengthen workers, communities, and the public good. Our goal is to help leaders, agencies, and organizations do great work by building lasting capacity, trusted relationships, and meaningful impact.

  • Every project we take on is different, so there is no one size fits all. We begin by listening, understanding your goals, your stakeholders, and the challenges you face. We pair that with our own experience of where we can add value. We will never promise something that we are not confident we can deliver. From there. we strive to work alongside our clients as trusted partners, not “outside consultants.”

  • Over the last 20 years we have worked on too many projects to name, but some highlights are:

    • Led successful campaigns to pass Marriage Equality, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Family and Medical Leave, and minimum wage increases in Washington.

    • Helped build the coalition that successfully challenged the proposed Kroger Albertsons merger.

    • Negotiated and implemented collective bargaining agreements covering tens of thousands of workers.

    • Directed statewide electoral, legislative, and public affairs campaigns.

    • Oversaw multimillion dollar organizations, budgets, and benefit trust funds with strong fiduciary governance.

    • Helped fight for increased funding for K-12 public education and strengthen labor standards across Washington.

    • Successfully help implement one of the largest local union mergers in recent history, including navigating the complexity of merging staff, finances, dies systems, and infrastructure

    • Helped elect local, statewide, and federal candidates with organizational goals at the center of our approach.

  • While we are a new firm, we are already working with some of the largest labor organizations in the state, mission aligned employers, public agencies, elected officials, and union officers. We are working on both single projects and serving as long term strategic partners. Representative client lists and professional references are available upon request.

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