Policy Strategy & Leadership
Levin Policy Strategies helps Illinois health and human services organizations develop, advance, and implement effective policy strategies. We work with organizations at whatever point they are in the policy process—from identifying a policy challenge or opportunity to developing a solution, building support for change, and ensuring that policy achieves its intended impact.
Policy Development
Effective policy starts with understanding the problem, listening to the people affected by it, and developing solutions that are both meaningful and achievable.
Levin Policy Strategies helps organizations move from an idea or concern to a well-developed policy strategy. We conduct policy research and analysis, engage stakeholders and people with lived experience, identify and evaluate policy options, and help organizations build consensus around solutions. When appropriate, we also develop legislative or regulatory proposals and the supporting rationale needed to advance them.
The goal isn't simply to develop a policy position. It's to help organizations develop sound, actionable policy solutions that can move forward.
Advocacy, Lobbying & Coalition Strategy
Good policy ideas don't advance on their own. Effective advocacy requires a clear strategy, strong relationships, and the right people engaged at the right time.
Levin Policy Strategies helps organizations translate policy priorities into effective advocacy strategies. We develop legislative and lobbying strategies, engage policymakers and government officials, build and strengthen coalitions, and support grassroots and grasstops advocacy. We help organizations determine where they can have the greatest influence, build support for their priorities, and adapt their strategies as the policy environment changes.
Whether the goal is advancing legislation, influencing a budget decision, shaping an administrative initiative, or building broader support for policy change, we help organizations turn their policy goals into action.
Policy Implementation & Monitoring
Enacting a law or policy is not the end of the policy process. Implementation determines whether a policy actually produces the change it was intended to create.
Levin Policy Strategies helps organizations understand and navigate what happens after a policy is enacted. We monitor implementation, identify opportunities and barriers, engage with policymakers and government agencies, and help organizations develop strategies to address implementation challenges. We also help organizations assess whether policies are being carried out effectively and as intended—and identify where additional policy or administrative action may be needed.
Our work helps organizations move from policy on paper to meaningful results on the ground.
Fractional Policy Strategy & Leadership
Many organizations need experienced policy leadership but don't need—or aren't ready for—a full-time policy executive. Fractional policy strategy and leadership provides ongoing senior-level policy capacity without adding a full-time position.
Levin Policy Strategies works alongside organizational leaders and teams to provide the policy expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership needed to advance priorities over time. We help organizations anticipate policy developments, identify and pursue opportunities, develop policy and advocacy strategies, build relationships with policymakers and partners, and respond strategically as the policy environment changes.
This can be especially valuable for organizations that are growing their policy work, navigating a significant policy opportunity or challenge, or need experienced leadership to develop a more strategic and sustained approach to policy.
Rather than simply responding to what's happening in policy, fractional policy leadership helps organizations anticipate what's coming and position themselves to act.