Fako Research & Strategies, Inc.

02/21/2023

Just FYI, for those who have our long time phone number 630-243....I have cancelled that line and its no longer in use. My contact info is easily found or you likely already have it.

That "630" number has been ours since September 2001 when I moved to Lemont and it traveled with us to the office building we bought in 2007 and to my current location back in Lemont, but my cell phone is all we use over the last decade so no need for it anymore.

03/19/2021

Our friends at The Campaign Workshop asked us to answer a few questions for their blog about polling. Here it is:

We talk with Dave Fako, Founder of Fako Research & Strategies, about how to use polling in the age of COVID-19 and what he’s learned in his 30-year career.

02/05/2021

A brief article outlining our innovations in public opinion research using online methods:

February, 2021 Public Opinion Research: Moving Forward with Innovative Methods The research profession has always experienced change over time. Sometimes this change happened at an incremental pace an

12/02/2020

Great Read...

I’m the chair of the local Democratic Party in a Wisconsin county that Donald Trump won. It wasn’t for a lack of progressive organizing. It was because national Democrats have failed communities like mine.

11/03/2020

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07/01/2020

An article FR&S wrote about regarding changes in public opinion research methods and the utility of mixed mode surveys.

03/18/2020

To Our Clients, Supporters and Partners:

“We will either find a way or make one.”

Everybody has been impacted by the health crisis due to the COVID 19 Pandemic and understand that all of us are being inundated with messages about it.

So to be brief, Fako Research & Strategies remains fully operating, with some obvious adjustments in timelines for projects based on the current situations. Our firm has been operating under a virtual / dynamic model for nearly a decade, so this is not new to us and we have significant experience with remote working.

We continue to proceed with our public opinion research projects, with some likely adjustments in timing of a few projects.

We will take on new opinion research projects. In these cases we will be very upfront with our clients on recommendations regarding what is in their best interest to proceed. We won't push clients to proceed if its not in their best interest.

Our strategic, organizational and communications consulting services may fit a need for organizations navigating this challenging time.

This has impacted all of our daily, personal and professional lives and as the husband of a school librarian and parent of an 8th Grader and Senior in HS, I am directly seeing the impact on their generation and students in general.

As has been stated throughout our firm's nearly 25 years of operation, we will professionally and personally continue approaching all challenges and find solutions to problems based on the winning philosophy espoused by the ancient Carthaginian General Hannibal and quoted by Saul Alinsky in his famous book, Rules for Radicals: “we will either find a way or make one”.

Thank you and take care.

--Dave

11/05/2019

Reflecting Back on the 2016 Election - Looking Toward the 2020 Election

09/10/2019

The core point of this article is spot on.

This simply isn’t the time to bet on an untested hypothesis that sounds good but has never resulted in a real-life win.

08/29/2019

As the 2020 presidential campaign ramps up, we’re getting hit almost daily with new candidate polls, often with wildly different results. Case in point, the most recent CNN poll shows Democratic candidate Kamala Harris plunged from second place with 17% support in June, to 5% support and tied for ...