https://hawthornstrategy.com/home daily 1.0 2023-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be31f3e96e76fa6e93c2665/1542235498950-VUKYBI6IATZBDFIO6NJ6/Hewlett+Cyber+Map.jpg Strategy | Advocacy | Action - Cyber Policy Reform STRATEGY | Refined a philanthropy's $50 million strategy to influence and improve cyber policy. Complex trade-offs in cyber policy between civil liberties, national security, and commerce remain unresolved. Since 2014, the Hewlett foundation has led the effort to create a multi-disciplinary network of experts capable of bridging the gap between tomorrow’s tech and today’s policies. Hawthorn principal Josh Drake led a strategic evaluation of the Hewlett Cyber Initiative's first 3 years resulting in significant strategy shifts, a board-approved 5-year extension, and a doubling of Initiative resources. Specific work included: field, actor, and policy influence mapping, development of 10 case studies with actionable lessons-learned, 50+ evaluative interviews, and distillation of all findings into a set of actionable next steps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be31f3e96e76fa6e93c2665/1542301966959-VLLPN007IQDA7HK6V6BD/Beach+Aerial_iStock-840741130.jpg Strategy | Advocacy | Action - About Hawthorn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be31f3e96e76fa6e93c2665/1546573093906-BNCPYZ73V6S1W0X9A6C2/Josh%252BDrake%252BHeadshot_20190102.jpg Strategy | Advocacy | Action - Josh Drake Hawthorn Principal Josh Drake is a social impact advisor with 15 years combined experience in strategy and management consulting, non-profit leadership and effectiveness, and public sector policy, advocacy, and field implementation. He started his career as an American diplomat in Washington DC and Sub-Saharan Africa, and subsequently worked as an advisor to the CEO and Board of international relief and development NGO Mercy Corps. Before Hawthorn, Josh led project teams for 5-years at Camber Collective, a boutique strategy and management consulting firm. Josh holds an MA in Public Policy from Harvard University, a BA in Political Science and Geography from Middlebury College, and was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be31f3e96e76fa6e93c2665/1542236456414-IRWZ0HQMN56CPQ33345P/Data_to_End_Hunger_Square_7_Sept.png Strategy | Advocacy | Action - Data to End Hunger ADVOCACY | Helped build a $300 million coalition bringing Ag data to policymakers in 50 countries. 800 million of the world's poorest and hungry rely on farming to survive. Policies that could improve their lives remain hobbled, however, by persistent gaps in the agricultural data needed for better decision-making. Hawthorn principal Josh Drake helped the Gates Foundation conceive and launch the $300 million 'Data to End Hunger Initiative,' a multi-stakeholder coalition bringing state of the art agricultural surveys to 50 low and lower middle income countries. Specific work included researching and co-authoring the initial pitch / proposal from which the Data to End Hunger initiative was born, as well as follow up support to coalition building and political negotiations to ensure its funding, launch, and ongoing implementation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be31f3e96e76fa6e93c2665/1546570250909-RJO9YASMCZEQU07O7VLY/Hiring%252BHawthorn.jpg Strategy | Advocacy | Action - Hiring Hawthorn Josh Drake is deeply involved in every project Hawthorn takes on. He provides advisory and consulting services directly to clients, and builds and leads larger teams from a network of consultants if clients’ desired outcomes require additional bandwidth or subject matter expertise. You can learn more about Hawthorn’s engagement model and rate by contacting us directly (below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5be31f3e96e76fa6e93c2665/1542301838085-9M0EFOA1OKLKNMM8PNOQ/Sudan_iStock-525720629.jpg Strategy | Advocacy | Action - Sudan Peacekeeping Support ACTION | Translated U.S. Sudan policy into $450 million in peacekeeping grants and contracts. Conflict causes most of the world's extreme hunger and displacement. Hawthorn principal Josh Drake developed and managed $100 million in annual U.S. programs to reduce the violence in Darfur, Sudan by training, equipping, deploying, supporting, and providing advisory services to 10,000+ African peacekeepers. The resulting African Union and later United Nations peacekeeping missions reduced (but did not end) what was then the world's largest humanitarian, refugee, and security crisis. 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