• Project: Yes. Every Kid. Foundation

• Length: One year

• Focus Area: Designing + Implementing Policy Agendas

• Category: K-12

HCM worked alongside the Yes. Every Kid. Foundation to implement a new approach to assessing state readiness for education policy change.

• Project: Lumina Foundation / Strategy Labs

• Length: 2010 - present

• Focus Area: Design, Implement and Assess Evidence-based Policy Agendas

• Category: Postsecondary

Since 2010, Lumina Foundation has drawn upon the state policy team at HCM Strategists to manage Strategy Labs initiatives and offer non-partisan content expertise and facilitation aligned with Lumina’s state policy agenda to increase attainment and close equity gaps.

• Project: Promising Policy

• Length: 2018 - 2019

• Focus Area: Market + Policy Research and Analysis, Designing, Evaluating and Implementing Policy Agendas, Strategic Communications, Campaigns and Coalitions

• Category: Postsecondary

HCM Strategists’ mission is to inform the development, adoption and refinement of impactful policies that make a difference in advancing equitable student outcomes. We launched the Promising Policy series to offer materials that highlight good policy and to examine the differences between impactful, lasting policies and those that fail to deliver on their promises.

• Project: Realizing Black Learner Excellence in Higher Ed

• Length: 2021 - Present

• Focus Area: Market + Policy Research and Analysis, Designing, Evaluating and Implementing Policy Agendas, Strategic Communications, Campaigns and Coalitions

• Category: Postsecondary

Together with EducationCounsel, Achieving the Dream, and with support from Lumina Foundation, HCM Strategists is building a coalition to enact a national call to action that addresses decades-long declining enrollments among Black learners.

• Project: American Dream 2.0 Coalition

• Length: 2012-2014

• Focus Area: Strategic Communications, Campaigns + Coalitions, Designing, Evaluating and Implementing Policy Agendas

• Category: Postsecondary

HCM established and led an unprecedented coalition to address how financial aid can play a role in advancing the American Dream, comprised of diverse national leadership—college and foundation presidents; civil rights leaders; top state policymakers; student activists; former budget and higher education officials; college access advocates; business leaders; and the nation’s foremost authorities on financial aid.

• Project: HCM Outcomes-Based Funding Framework

• Length: Ongoing

• Focus Area: Strategic Advice + Counsel, Market and Policy Research + Analysis, Designing, Evaluating and Implementing Policy Agendas

• Category: Postsecondary

A thought leader with deep experience in tracking, analyzing and working with states to improve state postsecondary policy, HCM Strategists has developed an unparalleled understanding of the state postsecondary policy and funding landscape.

• Project: Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery (RADD)

• Length: 2013 - 2017

• Focus Area: Designing + Implementing Policy Agendas

• Category: Postsecondary

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery (RADD) initiative yielded important policy and seeded collaboration around federal financial aid improvement options.