Blue Sky co-founder Tim Gage served as fiscal adviser to California Forward, which sought expertise on how to reform California's budget process. The effort included analyzing various proposals to mitigate the impact of volatile state revenues on budget planning. With this assistance, California Forward created a 6-point platform for fiscal reform. This effort was just one of numerous fiscal advisory projects undertaken by the Blue Sky Consulting Group, which range from delineating higher education funding challenges to modeling changes to the state's "rainy-day" fund mechanisms.