Experience Grounded in Practice
BridgeWorks is built on more than 15+ years of experience working across housing, homelessness, human services, and community systems.
Founder and Principal Megan Burt has led complex initiatives from early strategy and program design through implementation, operations, evaluation, and continuous improvement. Her experience spans public agencies, nonprofit organizations, housing systems, healthcare and community partnerships, providing a practical understanding of what it takes to move ambitious ideas into action.
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Turning new resources and policy priorities into programs that can operate in the real world.
Led the development and implementation of housing instability prevention initiatives, translating funding and policy objectives into program guidelines, eligibility frameworks, operational processes, partnerships, and service delivery models.
Experience includes designing programs from the ground up, identifying implementation challenges, refining program models based on early lessons, and coordinating across agencies and community partners to strengthen housing stability.
Areas of impact:
Program Design • Homelessness Prevention • Housing Stability • Implementation Strategy • Cross-Sector Coordination -
Connecting housing development, property operations, services, and tenant stability.
Led cross-departmental efforts to improve coordination around permanent supportive housing, with a focus on tenant retention, vacancy reduction, operational problem-solving, and stronger alignment between housing and supportive services.
This work required bringing together teams with different responsibilities and priorities to identify systemic barriers and develop practical solutions that improved how supportive housing operated in practice.
Areas of impact:
Permanent Supportive Housing • Tenant Retention • Vacancy Reduction • Systems Coordination • Operational Improvement -
Looking beyond compliance to understand whether programs and systems are working as intended.
Experience reviewing supportive housing projects, program models, policies, funding proposals, and system processes to assess alignment with requirements, identify operational gaps, and strengthen performance.
This includes serving on competitive funding review processes for supportive housing projects and bringing an implementation-focused lens to program and system evaluation.
Areas of impact:
Program Evaluation • Compliance • Supportive Housing • Funding Review • Performance Improvement • Policy Analysis -
Creating alignment when responsibility is shared across organizations, departments, and sectors.
Throughout her career, Megan has worked at the intersection of public agencies, nonprofit organizations, healthcare partners, housing providers, funders, and community stakeholders.
Her work has included facilitating cross-sector initiatives, aligning partners around shared objectives, navigating competing priorities, and translating broad strategies into defined roles, decisions, and implementation plans.
Areas of impact:
Systems Strategy • Facilitation • Stakeholder Engagement • Organizational Alignment • Cross-Sector Partnerships • Change Management
Experience Across the Full Implementation Lifecycle
STRATEGY → DESIGN → IMPLEMENTATION → IMPROVEMENT
BridgeWorks brings experience across the full lifecycle of complex initiatives, from identifying the problem and developing strategy to building programs, navigating implementation, evaluating performance, and adapting based on what is learned.
A Cross-Sector Perspective
Complex community challenges rarely sit within the boundaries of a single organization or system. BridgeWorks brings experience working across:
Local Government
Housing & Homelessness Systems
Nonprofit Organizations
Healthcare & Human Services
Philanthropy & Funders
Community-Based Partners
That cross-sector perspective helps BridgeWorks identify where systems intersect, where implementation breaks down, and where stronger coordination can produce better outcomes.
Bring Experience to Your Next Challenge
Whether you're designing a new initiative, strengthening an existing program, navigating organizational change, or trying to understand why a system isn't producing the results you expected, BridgeWorks can help move the work forward.