Helping you make positive change through advocacy & philanthropy
Progress Advisors supports individuals and organizations seeking to increase their impact through public policy, strategic communications, and political and philanthropic giving.
Public Policy & Advocacy
Nonprofits have a critical role in educating policymakers and ensuring they understand the needs and challenges from the frontline. We will provide strategic guidance on policy and advocacy to advance program goals, identify key stakeholders, and create an outreach and engagement plan that will secure better understanding of your issues and long-term support. We have deep experience translating complex policy issues into straightforward language.
Strategic Communications
From drafting documents to developing a comprehensive communications plan, we will help you create compelling messaging to raise your visibility, engage stakeholders, and inform long-term strategy development. We will build strong and meaningful cases for public and private support, amplify organizational visibility and influence policy change.
Financial Support
With decades of experience, we can help individuals, families and others create a thoughtful and effective giving program leveraging both charitable and political contribution making. We will develop an approach that maximizes the impact of your generosity and investments in issues, organizations and political causes consistent with your values and priorities.
Nancy Volpert is an experienced, passionate change-maker
Nancy has spent her career working to advance social justice and invest in social services. She has built connections with external stakeholders, influenced policy decisions at all levels of government, and coached board members, staff and others to be effective advocates. She is committed to supporting individuals and institutions seeking to increase their impact through public affairs, communications and political and philanthropic giving.
Nancy has worked on local, state and federal public policies to enhance quality of care for older adults, foster a skilled and supported workforce, address gender violence, and reduce hunger and poverty across the lifespan. In her time as an advocate, Nancy has secured more than $60 million for programs serving Holocaust Survivors, survivors of domestic violence and people who are food insecure. In addition, she built a robust non-partisan voter engagement program to increase understanding of, and participation in, the electoral process by underrepresented voters.
Prior to launching Progress Advisors, Nancy held leadership positions at Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and other non-profit organizations. Working in close partnership with program colleagues, legislative leadership and coalition partners across California, Nancy ensured that the complex needs of high-risk populations were considered when designing programs and policies to address long-term systemic inequities.
In previous roles, she led efforts to create a board-adopted strategic plan for advancing equity and agency-wide policy statement on diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. She has worked in programs, fundraising, communications and operations at political policy, civil rights and health care non-profit organizations. Nancy has presented at numerous local and national conferences about using advocacy, policy change and civic engagement to advance critical issues.
She is a member of the Los Angeles City Domestic Violence Alliance (DVA), LA County Domestic Violence Council Executive Board, Elder Index Advisory Council, Los Angeles Development Fund Advisory Board and Food Forward Advisory Council.
Nancy has an MBA from the Amos Tuck School and an BA from Amherst College.
