Community & Economic Development Strategic Consulting
I work with nonprofits, small businesses, and place-based organizations to strengthen local economies, build organizational capacity, and create stronger communities.
My approach is shaped by more than a decade of experience across economic development, nonprofit leadership, community revitalization, and civic engagement in communities navigating growth, instability, disinvestment, and transition. I’m especially interested in the institutions, partnerships, and local systems that determine whether people are able to stay rooted, connected, and economically secure where they live.
The work is practical: funding strategy, organizational development, partnership building, project management, systems, sustainability, and implementation. But the goal extends beyond organizational performance alone. Strong organizations are essential to strong communities—and healthy communities are built by the people and institutions willing to invest in them.
Who I Work With
Nonprofits
Funding strategy, grant development, organizational systems, program design, partnership building, and long-term sustainability planning for organizations serving communities in complex and changing environments.
Small Businesses
Community-centered business strategy, partnership development, programming, and local economic initiatives that strengthen both business sustainability and civic life.
Place-Based Organizations
Support for Main Street programs, downtown revitalization efforts, district management, community development initiatives, and place-based economic strategy in both rural and urban settings.
How We Can Work Together
You Need Funding
Grant research, grant writing, funding strategy, and resource development.
You Need A Plan
Organizational systems, strategic planning, process improvement, and sustainability planning.
You Need Extra Capacity
Project support, implementation, and fractional support when your organization has more opportunity than bandwidth and you need experienced help without a full-time hire.
You Need a Project Led
Project and initiatives management, partnership development, and timelines.
You Need Community Impact
Economic development initiatives, project design, downtown revitalization, community engagement, and place-based strategies for long-term growth and pride.
The Exchange
The Exchange is a newsletter about place, belonging, and the systems that shape American life. Part personal narrative. Part civic observation. Part field notes from community and economic development. Subscribers receive essays, grant opportunities, practical resources, and occasional reflections from the work itself.
Because the story and the strategy are rarely separate.