Hope Street Group is fortunate to work with engaged leaders from politics, civil society and business, as well as volunteer practitioners lending new and important voices to the policy debate.  Here's a sampling of their experiences with Hope Street Group:

BIPARTISAN WORKING GROUP MEMBERS

"How many organizations are 5 years old, spent a little more than 1 million with their budget and get major pieces of legislation signed into law? I would say that is a pretty good return on your investment and the return on investment of what Hope Street Group makes."

– Ken Mehlman

Managing Director for Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

"In today's world there is too much partisanship and too much ideological divide that prevents progress from happening.  Hope Street Group is able to bring together diverse individuals both of political and ideological perspectives, crossing different sectors of the economy to come up with sensible solutions to some of the real challenges facing America. We have to be able to speak directly to each other in order to make progress and Hope Street Group helps us to do that."

– David M. Walker

President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

VOLUNTEERS

"Hope Street Group is collaborative and results-oriented. They start with getting results as the main priority, then work backwards from there."

– Marc Boxser
Head of Business Development, World Economic Forum
Communications Advisory Board Member


"Hope Street Group brings together a wide range of professionals who are committed to advancing equal access to the basics - education, health care, and social mobility."

– Amelia Thompson
Project Administrator, Prisoner Reentry Institute
Policy Team Contributor


"HSG’s emphasis on creating opportunity is very powerful.  Every American, no matter what their income or political affiliation, can support opportunities for health, education, and economic success.  (Due to travel) it is often difficult for me to participate in traditional volunteer work which requires my physical presence on a regular basis.  Hope Street Group is different.  I can make significant contributions to the HSG health team whether I'm in Geneva; Nairobi; Washington, DC; or my living room couch."

– Dr. Kate Tulenko, Health Policy Specialist and Coordinator of the Africa Health Workforce Program, World Bank


"Hope Street Group is action-oriented and not just another "think tank" which produces paper after paper, with no real results. (It is) focused on research and able to engage a group of field-based professionals within a very innovative virtual community. After 32 years as a professional educator, it is hard to get my attention but Hope Street did with their approach to education and educators."

– Douglas H. Clark, Ed.D.
Teacher and Department Chairperson, Special Education, Mina Elementary School, Bastrop, Texas
Teacher Evaluation—Team Leader for the Outcomes Team

"Hope Street Group empowers teachers to speak and be heard!  Educators and other professionals sit around a “virtual table” with access to literature, research, and expert drop-in sessions right at our fingertips! Synthesizing our collaborative work into a document to reach leaders in Washington and begin to make change and reform in education policy is both exciting and fulfilling.  This innovative process keeps me connected and involved; allowing me to make a difference in education both inside and outside the classroom."

– Dina Rock

Teacher Evaluation—Team Leader for the Measures Team

HEALTH CARE SIGNATORIES
(Open Letter to President Obama)

"This group tackles the tough issues -- expanding access while still controlling cost. It was precisely this kind of wide-ranging coalition that was able to move our state forward. I believe that we can provide the same result for every American."

– Phil Edmundson
Chairman & CEO, William Gallagher Associates, ACT! Coalition of Massachusetts


"To reward higher value and efficient resource use, we need a health care financing and delivery system in which individuals are allowed to choose efficient delivery systems and keep the savings for themselves."

– Alain Enthoven
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University


“The Catholic Health Association is pleased to be part of the Hope Street Group, and will continue to work with the collaborative as well as its participants to move forward substantive health care reform. The Hope Street Group’s reform principles largely reflect those developed by Catholic health care providers, and represent a helpful step in building a bipartisan solution to our nation’s health care challenges.”

– Sr. Carol Keehan
President & CEO, Catholic Health Association


"The only successful path to substantive, patient-centered health care reform in the United States is going to be a collaborative path, with stakeholders coming together to compromise and gain consensus on priorities; that's what we have done here. It's similar to the process we've used here at Mayo- bringing together more than 2,000 people outside our walls to gain consensus on direction for health care reform. From our perspective, creating value -- and paying for it -- is an essential component in providing better health care to more people. Expanding coverage without creating and paying for value will not improve get us there."

– Jeff Korsmo
Executive Director, Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center


“These recommendations chart a course for reform that offer a solution the current health care mess that is breaking the bank of government, business and individual Americans. They reflect the coming together of a very diverse set of groups around the common agenda of assuring that health reform builds on what works, while creating a new and better health-care system. If we don’t take action now, we’ll never get these horrendous costs under control or make insurance affordable for everyone.”

– Peter Lee
Executive Director, National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health


"I am pleased to endorse these common sense principles that can serve as a foundation for health reforms that ensure all Americans enjoy affordable, high quality health coverage; control overall health care costs, and establish a platform for long-term economic growth. While we will continue to debate the fine points, achieving our larger goals-- as espoused by these principles, is critical for American families and the American economy.”

– John Podesta
CEO, Center for American Progress


“The fact that such a diverse group could agree on so many fundamental tenets of comprehensive reform gives me great hope about our nation's prospects in the months ahead. In particular, agreeing that individuals must be required to obtain coverage, even though it is necessary to make insurance markets work for all and to make sure that all pay their fair share, is a major bipartisan step forward past a key philosophical barrier. Also, agreeing that all should have access to affordable high quality basic and preventive care, not just catastrophic financial protection, shows that this group understands the centrality of appropriate care and personal responsibility to achieving far more health value per dollar than we have been getting as a nation.”

– Dr. Len Nichols
Director, Health Policy Program, New America Foundation


“At U.S. Engineering Company, we believe healthcare is a partnership between the Company and our people. Healthcare reform is also a partnership that involves shared responsibility between the business community, government, providers and individual patients. Effective reform must foster more transparent costs, promote innovation, and increase the overall quality of care. The task is monumental, but achievable if all parties come to the table.”

– Tyler Nottberg
Chairman & CEO, U.S. Engineering Company