Health centers have spent six decades earning trust. The next sixty starts with being ready for what comes next.
LINK Strategic Partners helps health centers navigate this moment and build toward the next sixty years of service and excellence — combining deep knowledge of the movement with whatever mix of strategy, engagement, and communications fits your needs.
We know this work — and share the same commitment to the cause.
Why LINK
Health centers have spent decades earning something most institutions in American healthcare never fully win: real trust, built one relationship at a time. Meeting this moment doesn't call for one fixed playbook — it calls for someone who understands the movement well enough to know which combination of tools actually fits your circumstances.
That's what six-plus years partnering directly with NACHC and the health center movement has given us — fluency in the funding pressures, the workforce questions, the governance realities, and the policy environment health centers navigate every day. We don't come in needing an education on 340B or PPS or what a board actually needs from a strategic plan. We already speak the language of this movement.
So we don't lead with a fixed lane. Strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, and organizational strategy are equally central to what we do — sometimes all three for one client, sometimes just one, depending on what will genuinely move your organization forward.
How We Help
A menu, not a prescription.
Every organization’s circumstances are different, so we don't start with a fixed package. These are the three key areas we're experts in — pick one, combine all three, or start with a conversation and figure it out together.
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Message development, storytelling, media relations, and creative that reflect your health center's real strategy — not a marketing push disconnected from it.
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Grassroots-to-grasstops engagement built on real listening: board facilitation, staff and patient interviews, ambassador programs, and ongoing feedback loops that keep strategy honest.
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Organizational assessments, strategic planning, governance support, and workforce strategy for health centers and networks navigating growth, transition, or a changing policy landscape.
These are three areas where we’ve been most helpful in the health center movement, but it’s not all that organizations need. We also specialize in:
Cost shouldn't be the reason this conversation doesn't happen.
NACHC SELECT PARTNER
As a NACHC Select partner, we've built flexibility into how we work with health centers, including preferred terms for NACHC Select members. But the number matters less than the intent behind it — we're committed to this movement, and we'd rather figure out how to make a partnership work than let budget be the reason it doesn't.
If you're a NACHC member — or just figuring out whether we’re the right fit for your health center — let's start with a conversation about what you're facing, not a rate sheet.
From national associations to regional networks to the agencies that fund and regulate this work, we've built lasting partnerships across every level of the health center movement:
Trust we've earned across the movement.
Local Insight, National Know-How.
About LINK
LINK Strategic Partners is a strategic communications, stakeholder engagement, and social impact consulting firm. We understand and respect the communities we work in — because our team reflects them.
Let’s Talk
Tell us where your health center is headed.
Whether you're thinking about a rebrand, a governance transition, a stakeholder engagement push, a strategic plan, or you just want a second opinion on where things stand — we'd love to hear what you're working on.
We'll follow up within two business days. No pressure, no boilerplate proposal — just a real conversation about what would actually help you build for what's next.
LINK Strategic Partners
Washington, D.C. (HQ)
Proud NACHC Select Partner