Healthy Community Strategies partners with mission-driven organizations and individuals to accelerate their impact in achieving policy and systems-change to promote thriving communities.
Our unique approach to providing strategic communications and advocacy consulting services is designed to prepare clients for long-term sustainability and operational effectiveness, regardless of resource constraints. We apply a strengths-based lens to working with clients, identifying how they can leverage their unique skills, perspectives, and relationships while developing key strategies, capacities, and tools to achieve their goals.
Lauren has thirteen years of experience working with small business owners, social enterprises, grassroots activists, and national advocacy organizations to secure policy victories in states across the political spectrum and at the federal level. Her policy expertise includes small business finance, community and cooperative development, and the socio-political determinants of health. Having worked in diverse and highly collaborative roles throughout her career, Lauren takes pride in her ability to adapt and innovate quickly, employing the best combination of skills, strategies, and resources to build effective and scalable movements.
Healthy Community Strategies brings on additional team members as needed through Lauren’s diverse network of mission-aligned consultants, allowing us to leverage the strength of our community to achieve client goals.