Our work
Public Goods Group works from a simple but stubborn conviction: communities deserve real, workable solutions, not generic playbooks dressed up as strategy. We partner with hospitals, health systems, funders, governments, and nonprofits across North America, bringing data analysis, visualization, strategic planning, grant expertise, and policy knowledge to the work that matters most. No two clients are alike. Neither are our solutions.
Our impact
With more than 20 years of experience, Public Goods Group partners with a wide range of clients, all with one shared goal: strengthening communities in smart, thoughtful, and sustainable ways.
in nonprofit grants awarded through our work globally
economic and community health needs assessments conducted
in community health programming overseen each year
Our partners
Our partners span sectors and borders, united by a common goal: building stronger, healthier communities. These are a few of the organizations we work with that create a strong impact within their communities.Â
Our take on key issues
From the Field is our ongoing look at the ideas, people, and policies shaping health, granting, economic development, and the organizations that serve us all. Here you’ll find Backgrounders that unpack the issues shaping our field, Features that go deeper on questions without easy answers, In the Field pieces drawn from our own engagements, and Field Guides built for practical use. You’ll also find The Data, where we break down numbers worth understanding better, the Rolodex, our running list of organizations and publications we value and respect, and Book Club, where we pair fiction with its nonfiction counterpart to help us all better understand the issues affecting our communities.
First in our series of reports: nonprofit hospitals maintain their tax-exempt status by demonstrating community benefit to the communities they serve, but a bill now moving through Congress could significantly change what that actually means. In this Backgrounder, learn what’s in the bill and why it’s shaping up to be one of the more consequential health policy debates happening today.