Who We Are
The 2030 Collaborative focuses on promoting awareness, providing education, and encouraging advocacy for the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including those related to poverty, health, hunger, education, clean water, sanitation, and peace and justice.
The moral rationale to protect and increase U.S. governmental funding for global health and development is a critical argument for our policymakers. For this reason, galvanizing the faith community and its leaders is an essential component to a strong advocacy strategy for any issue. With longtime relationships across the nation, The 2030 Collaborative nurtures, educates, and activates notable leaders across the faith community (actors, athletes, authors, pastors, professors, non-profit leaders, speakers, etc.) to take a stand for the expediency of addressing global health and development policy and funding goals to achieve a better, safer, and more sustainable world for everyone.
We aid in building relationships to strengthen advocacy for social justice issues in the faith, university, and private sector arenas, and we will advise and implement strategies to influence policy and funding.
Staff
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Jenny Eaton Dyer, Phd
Founder
Jenny Dyer is the Founder of The 2030 Collaborative. As such, she directs the Faith-Based Coalition for Global Nutrition with support from the Eleanor Crook Foundation. She also directs the Faith-Based Coalition for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with Friends of the Global Fight.
Dyer teaches Global Health Politics and Policy as a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, and she has taught Religion and Global Health as a Lecturer at Vanderbilt School of Divinity.
Dyer formerly served as the executive director to Senator-Doctor Bill Frist’s humanitarian organization, Hope Through Healing Hands, in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to that, she served as the National Faith Outreach Director for the DATA Foundation and The ONE Campaign, Bono’s organization, from 2003-2008. In this role, she worked with religious leaders, authors, artists, and other faith-based leaders to promote awareness and advocacy for extreme poverty and global AIDS issues.
Dyer has written several academic articles and opinion pieces on the intersection of religion and global health. She has been published in TIME, Forbes.com, Huffington Post, Roll Call, Christianity Today’s Her.meneutics, Patheos, Relevant Magazine, Christian Post, Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, and The Tennessean to name a few.
She is a co-editor for the newly released The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (2019). She also is a contributor of Why Save Africa: Answers from around the World (2011) and a co-compiler of The Mother & Child Project: Raising Our Voices for Health and Hope (2015) and The aWAKE Project: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis (2002).
Dyer holds a B.A. in Religion from Samford University (1999), a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School (2001), and a Ph.D. in History and Critical Theories of Religion from Vanderbilt University (2007).
She lives in Franklin, Tennessee with her husband, John, and two boys, Rhys and Oliver.
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Jane Lynch Crain
Director of Operations
Jane Lynch Crain currently serves as the Director of Operations of The 2030 Collaborative. In this role, she is responsible for organizational management and logistics, including financial and administrative oversight as well as event production and execution. Prior to her work at The 2030 Collaborative, Jane Lynch served as Director of Operations of the global humanitarian organization Hope Through Healing Hands, founded and chaired by Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
Jane Lynch specialized in political fundraising and event management for ten years for a multitude of notable figures, including U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, and U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann. During that period, she developed her noteworthy diplomacy skills, as well as her acute attention to detail and keen situational awareness.
A proud graduate of The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ, she holds as Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY as a double major in English and Spanish. Jane Lynch is a native of Houston, TX and currently resides in Nashville, TN.
Advisory Board
Senator Bill Frist, MD
Chairman of the board
