Common Goal Consulting partners with nonprofits, government agencies, and community organizations to design and implement programs that measurably improve public health outcomes and reduce homelessness.
Explore Our Services Get in TouchWe believe that every community deserves access to the best thinking in public health and homelessness services. Our consultants bring academic rigor and frontline experience together to create strategies that are both evidence-backed and human-centered.
From needs assessments to program evaluations, we work alongside our partners — not above them — to build capacity that lasts long after the engagement ends.
Strengthening community health infrastructure, disease prevention, and health equity initiatives.
Housing First approaches, outreach program design, and cross-sector coordination.
Rigorous impact evaluation, HMIS data support, and performance management systems.
Facilitating multi-agency partnerships and community engagement for lasting change.
We work with nonprofits, Continuums of Care, county health departments, Federally Qualified Health Centers, community development organizations, and philanthropic foundations committed to systemic change.
Start a ConversationFlexible, expert-led engagements spanning strategy, evaluation, training, and implementation support.
We conduct comprehensive community needs assessments using mixed-method approaches — combining quantitative data analysis with qualitative community engagement. Our assessments provide a clear, actionable picture of gaps and opportunities in your service landscape.
From Housing First pilot programs to integrated care models, we help organizations design programs with fidelity to evidence-based best practices while remaining adaptive to local context. We stay engaged through launch and beyond.
Rigorous, participatory program evaluation that goes beyond counting outputs. We help you understand what's working, for whom, and why — producing findings that are useful internally and compelling to funders and policymakers.
We facilitate inclusive strategic planning processes that align your team, board, and community stakeholders around a shared vision. Our facilitators are skilled at navigating complex organizational dynamics and building durable consensus.
We help you identify the right funding opportunities and craft compelling, evidence-backed proposals. Our team has supported successful applications to HUD, CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA, and major private foundations.
Translating data into policy. We provide decision-makers with accessible, rigorous analysis and equip advocacy organizations with the evidence they need to make their case to legislators and the public.
We hold ourselves to the same evidence standards we bring to our clients.
Our consulting practice draws on established frameworks in public health, social epidemiology, and implementation science. We are skeptical of one-size-fits-all solutions and committed to co-designing approaches with — not for — the communities we serve.
All of our work explicitly addresses social determinants of health, structural racism, and the root causes of disparate outcomes. Equity is a lens, not an afterthought.
We prioritize lived experience as expertise. Our assessments, planning processes, and evaluations center the voices of people most affected by the issues being addressed.
We use evidence-based implementation frameworks (like EPIS and CFIR) to identify barriers and facilitators to adoption, ensuring that good programs actually stick.
Quantitative rigor paired with qualitative depth. Numbers tell you what is happening; stories help you understand why. We use both to give clients the full picture.
For homelessness engagements, we maintain fidelity to Housing First principles as validated by decades of research, while adapting to local regulatory and funding contexts.
Our goal is always to make ourselves unnecessary. We build internal knowledge, tools, and systems so your team can sustain the work independently after engagement ends.
"Common Goal didn't just hand us a report — they helped us understand our own data and build the internal capacity to keep using it. That's a different kind of consulting."— Director of Programs, Regional Continuum of Care
Common Goal Consulting is led by a practitioner who has worked at the highest levels of public health, housing, and social innovation.
Eddie Turner brings a rare combination of national leadership, on-the-ground implementation experience, and strategic vision to his consulting practice. He founded Common Goal Consulting to put that experience to work for the organizations and communities that need it most.
At the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Eddie served as Senior Director for Equity and Population Health, where he led the organization's California portfolio — overseeing complex initiatives in Medicaid innovation and community health clinics. His work helped health systems translate equity commitments into measurable operational change.
As Senior Strategy Lead at Community Solutions, Eddie led coaching and improvement programs that empowered 14 U.S. cities and counties to measurably end homelessness for key populations. This groundbreaking work earned the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change grant — a $100 million award — and was featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the documentary The Way Home.
Earlier in his career, Eddie worked at Habitat for Humanity International, where he focused on global revenue strategy and architected a significant increase in resources directed to low- and middle-income countries.
Eddie holds a Master's degree from Yale University, where he studied social ethics and change movements — the intellectual foundation that continues to shape how he thinks about systemic transformation and the role of institutions in creating equitable communities.
"The communities facing the greatest challenges deserve the best thinking, the best tools, and genuine partners — not just vendors. That's what Common Goal is built to be."
— Eddie Turner, Founder
Justice and lived experience are centered in every engagement.
We tell clients what the evidence says, even when it's complicated.
We work alongside communities — not above them.
We are obsessed with whether our work actually moves the needle for real people.
We defer to community expertise and know what we don't know.
We respond to all inquiries within two business days.
Whether you're exploring a new program, seeking evaluation support, or just want to think through a challenge with someone who gets it — we'd love to hear from you. Initial consultations are always free.