Practical policy for small places.
Catalyst Public Policy Advisors is an Oregon limited liability company headquartered in John Day, working with rural local governments, hospital and school districts, tribal governments, and mission-aligned developers across the state.
Catalyst Public Policy Advisors is an Oregon limited liability company headquartered in John Day, Oregon. We were founded in June 2022 by Nick Green — a former city manager and veteran policy advocate — on a simple premise: small cities and rural counties are systematically disadvantaged in policymaking, capital allocation, and state and federal investment, and that gap is closeable with the right tools and the right partners.
We work with rural local governments, hospital districts, school districts, tribal governments, and mission-aligned developers to make their projects financeable and their policy positions defensible.
What we do
- Rural opportunity zone development — structuring deals, performing GP functions, and assembling capital stacks for OZ projects in qualifying rural census tracts.
- Municipal finance and budget strategy — multi-year financial modeling, reporting, and policy analysis for small jurisdictions.
- Housing and land-use — portable housing catalogs (see R3 Home Plans), UGB and infrastructure strategy, and workforce-housing development support.
- Healthcare and workforce education — curriculum design and training programs, including the 4Ms geriatric-nursing framework, for rural health systems.
We benchmark our success by our clients' success. Our goal is to bring home the wins.
Founder
Nick Green
Nick is the founder and president of Catalyst Public Policy Advisors. He is the former City Manager for the City of John Day and former Executive Director of the Grant County Digital Network Coalition, Grant County's public broadband consortium. Before John Day, Nick was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he managed a multi-billion-dollar technology investment portfolio; a Project Manager with Jacobs Engineering; and an intelligence analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Nick holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington and a Certificate in Technology Entrepreneurship from the Foster School of Business. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from Brigham Young University and is beginning a PhD in Public Policy at the University of Oregon. He is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences on rural policy, technology, and innovation.
Nick lives in John Day with his wife and two children, Kaden and Penelope.