Taylor Patrice
Writer and community development strategist exploring what helps people and places thrive.
Essays
My writing explores belonging, mobility, identity, and civic life in contemporary America through personal narrative, cultural observation, and lived experience across communities often overlooked by the national conversation. I also provide grant resources and strategic support for nonprofits and small businesses working in community and economic development.
- The before and afters on the unglamorous truth of old houses, hard work, and building what lasts. A renovation project.
- On moving, becoming, and the strange grace of starting again.
- Lets talk about importance of cool leaders, and how a soapbox issue led to SB0767
- What my grandmother passed down without ever naming it.
- $250 to $2.5M+ in funding inside – currently available for organizations supporting small businesses, workforce development, and community economic growth.
Strategic Consulting
I partner with organizations working to strengthen communities and create lasting local impact. My work spans strategic planning, grant funding, project management, partnerships, and organizational development—helping nonprofits, civic institutions, and place-based initiatives build the capacity to thrive.
From downtown revitalization efforts to community development programs, I help turn good ideas into sustainable systems, stronger organizations, and healthier local economies.
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in Partnership Value Secured
Grants Secured & Managed
Full-time Jobs Created & Sustained
Organizations Transformed
Years of Nonprofit Business Leadership
About
Through my consulting work, I help communities, nonprofits, and local leaders secure resources, manage complex initiatives, and strengthen local economies. Through my writing, I explore the deeper questions of belonging, mobility, identity, and civic life that shape the places we call home.
Over the past decade, I’ve lived across the United States and abroad as a military spouse, working in economic development offices, churches, refugee support organizations, historic downtowns, and communities navigating poverty, displacement, and institutional change. My work has spanned nonprofit leadership, fundraising, advocacy, emergency response, and place-based economic development.
Across both disciplines, I’m interested in the relationship between people and place: how communities are shaped, what helps them endure, and why some create the conditions for belonging while others struggle to do so.
I write about those questions. I help communities put the answers into practice.
For consulting, collaboration, or conversation, feel free to reach out.
I work with nonprofits, small businesses, and place-based organizations navigating growth and community impact, and welcome thoughtful collaborations and conversations about civic life, belonging, and local community development.