Moving systems,
not just needles.
A strategy, capital, and policy practice that takes complex public problems from the whiteboard to the close — across housing, energy, education, and economic development.
The biggest challenges no single institution can solve alone.Do Good · Utah · Lasting Impact
We do the hard part.
Big civic ideas are easy to announce and hard to land. The work that matters — affordable housing that pencils, education that scales, energy and infrastructure that actually get built — lives in the gap between ambition and execution.
Do Good works in that gap. We bring the strategy, the capital stack, the policy, and the coalition to one table, then push the work past the point where most efforts stall: to a decision, a dollar committed, a bill passed, a project closed.
A method built for work no single
institution can solve alone.
Diagnose
Map the system, the incentives, the stakeholders, and the real opportunity window.
Align
Bring public, private, and philanthropic partners into one shared operating frame.
Structure
Design the policy, the capital stack, the governance, and the message together.
Move
Convert strategy into decisions, funding, legislation, and execution on the ground.
Partners & Platforms
A curated showcase —
not an engagement list.
Active & recent
Civic Backbone Entity Staffing
A collective-impact model knitting seven Wasatch Front cities and myHometown hubs into one neighborhood-scale engine — anchored by a Leader in Me initiative in Title I schools.
Senior Advisor & Legislative Strategy
An evergreen fund that buys and preserves naturally occurring affordable housing before it converts to market rate — designed to recycle capital indefinitely.
Economic Insights & Strategic Advisory
Positioning and public narrative for the Green River Energy Center, a utility-scale solar-plus-storage project, with the economic and community case for Utah's energy transition.
Communications & Data Support
A statewide DOGM economic-impact study and coalition platform making the case for the aggregate and construction-materials industry that quite literally builds Utah.
Economic & Market Research Aligned with Policy
Ongoing economic analysis tying construction, transportation infrastructure, and materials operations to jobs, growth, and Utah's long-horizon build-out.
Capital Stack & Policy Design
Preservation, modular workforce homeownership, and capital-readiness work with a set of nonprofit housing developers stretching scarce dollars further per door.
Legislative Intelligence
Real-time legislative tracking and analysis for EDCO — monitoring family-law reform and development policy, and turning the signal into strategy before bills move.
Historic Tax Credit Finance
Structuring Historic Tax Credit financing for the adaptive reuse and preservation of Trolley Square — activating a landmark Salt Lake property for its next century.
Past engagements
Three shown here — but the past record runs far wider: a pooled philanthropic fund, a chamber fundraising platform, a legislative review standard, a statewide agency overhaul in Nebraska, economic analyses for a foundation and an arts institution, renewable-energy finance, and a data-journalism lab. Different clients, different instruments, one throughline: systems built to keep running long after we stepped away.
Domains
8Client types
6Instruments
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Pooled Fund Leadership & Management
A ~$30M pooled philanthropic fund that turned catalytic grants into deeply leveraged affordable-housing production — a template for doing more with concentrated capital.
Editorial Strategy & Data Journalism
A data-journalism initiative modeled on the NYT's Upshot, covering Utah's emerging industries and economic trends — strategy, staffing, and a run of published op-eds.
Innovative Finance & Philanthropic Guarantees
Innovative financing and philanthropic guarantees to help unlock Salt Lake City's renewable-energy commitment — making the clean-power math work for residents.
Framework Design & Fundraising
Framework, fundraising, and strategic lens for the Salt Lake Chamber's statewide free-enterprise vision — a business-led plan to make Utah the nation's top-performing economy ahead of the 2034 Winter Games.
Government Efficiency & Program Review
A governor-aligned review of state economic-development and agency operations — spending discipline, efficacy audits, and results-oriented government reform, delivered across state lines.
Economic Impact & Public Finance Analysis
An economic-impact analysis with public-finance and tax overlay, plus district-growth implications, for one of Utah's largest arts institutions.
Higher-Ed Governance Strategy
Policy strategy and philanthropic alignment with the Eccles Foundation on higher-education governance — advancing a durable vision through legislative and board-level engagement.
Trusted across sectors
Four ways we move the work.
Economic Strategy & Policy Design
Grounded frameworks and economic analysis for cities, states, and coalitions navigating growth, affordability, and resilience — built with the legislative path in mind.
- Strategic planning
- Economic analysis
- Policy design
- Legislative strategy
Capital Stack Design & Investment Readiness
Public-private tools that move projects from concept to close without diluting the mission — gap financing, fund structuring, and the match strategy to back it.
- Gap financing
- Fund structuring
- CRA & philanthropy
- Government match
Campaigns & Communications
Clear civic storytelling, donor narrative, and stakeholder alignment — the message work that turns a sound strategy into public support and committed capital.
- Campaign planning
- Donor decks
- Op-eds & narrative
- Public affairs
Coalition Management & Execution
The connective tissue that holds multi-party efforts together — keeping business, government, philanthropy, and community rowing in the same direction through delivery.
- Coalition building
- Governance
- Stakeholder mgmt
- Execution support
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can.— John Wesley
Small by design.
Senior on every file.
Michael Parker
Has run strategy across a $1B+ homebuilder, co-founded a ~$200M housing fund, and carried bills at the Utah Capitol. A systems strategist who'd rather build the lever than push the rock. Gardener and history reader off the clock.
Amie Parker
A public-affairs operator forged at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, the Utah Broadband Plan, the Governor's Office of Economic Development, and a congressional office. Keeps the trains running and the standards high.
Kenzie Miller
A strategic-communications specialist with statewide campaigns and placements from the WSJ to the NYT. Turns complexity into language people will actually move on.
Let's move the work.
If you're tackling a complex public problem with business, government, or philanthropic partners, Do Good is built for exactly that.