Community engagement
Find credible advocates, host the right events, and turn real local support into action.
Make the caseMove the city
Strategy, community engagement, and digital campaigns for consequential work in Los Angeles
Discuss a project
Public support is built
before the hearing
Bridge combines local knowledge, stakeholder research, campaign discipline, and hands-on digital execution. We work with developers, campaigns, nonprofits, civic institutions, and companies—especially when the audience is skeptical, the stakes are high, and the outcome matters.
What clients say
The people in the room remember the work
“With a project as complicated as ours—Crossroads Hollywood—in a neighborhood as controversial as Hollywood, Bridge did an incredible job of bringing out supporters, controlling the social media narrative and, at the end of the day, delivered six times as many speakers to City Hall as our opposition. We highly recommend them to anyone who has a NIMBY problem.”
Founder / Strategy lead
Senior attention
not a handoff
Bridge is led by Josh Gray-Emmer. Clients work directly with Josh from strategy through execution, with trusted specialists brought in to match the demands of each engagement.
Josh on LinkedInWhat we do
Six disciplines
One coordinated campaign
Public affairs
Shape the narrative around complex land-use, policy, and civic issues before the decisive moment.
Digital campaigns
Reach the audiences who matter across social, email, text, search, television, and streaming.
Campaign infrastructure
Build NationBuilder databases, automations, and supporter journeys that turn attention into coordinated action.
Identity + web
Create persuasive identities and action-oriented websites built around the result.
Research + narrative
Understand the terrain, pressure-test the opposition, and build a story that can withstand scrutiny.
Selected clients
Trusted with work that has stakes
Case studies
Strategy that survives
contact with reality
The Alexan
Turn neighborhood support into undeniable evidence
Against organized opposition, Bridge used NationBuilder, community events, targeted communications, and direct outreach to identify, mobilize, and document visible support for new housing.
11,467Email and text opt-ins
210Supporters at City Hall
1,245Letters to local officials
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The goal
Identify and mobilize local supporters, counter misinformation, and motivate people to take action through a coordinated website, database, social, email, and text program.
The approach
Bridge identified and ranked advocates by real behavior, created supporter events at neighborhood venues, and kept the community engaged as the project moved through the approval process.
The outcome
At the final hearing, a map built from the supporter database showed support distributed throughout the neighborhood while opposition was concentrated around a single building. The result was a clear public mandate.
DTLA Nation
Use smart data to make a fragmented neighborhood feel local
Bridge built a platform that matched Downtown residents with nearby businesses, events, and offers based on where they lived and what they genuinely cared about.
7,468Residents in about a year
22%Of Downtown participating
2×Higher engagement by text than email
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The idea
Residents wanted good local experiences. Restaurants wanted patrons on slower nights. DTLA Nation created a direct, mutually useful connection between them.
The system
NationBuilder replaced a patchwork of tools with a single database that tagged people by neighborhood and interests, then automated relevant text invitations and RSVPs.
The outcome
Businesses filled empty tables, residents found worthwhile experiences within walking distance, and Downtown became a more connected, responsive community.
Selected digital work
Websites designed to produce action
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Start with the real problem.