SERVICES

Practical support for meaningful work.

Concrete Flowers Grow helps nonprofits, advocacy organizations, coalitions, faith-based groups, and community-centered teams expand their capacity, strengthen communications, coordinate projects, improve internal systems, maintain digital platforms, and pursue funding opportunities.

Services can be used individually or combined into a focused project or ongoing scope of work. Each engagement builds on your organization’s strengths, goals, priorities, and preferred ways of working.

HOW I CAN HELP

Choose the support that fits your project.

Open any service for details about the support and deliverables available. Many projects combine more than one area.

What Does Nonprofit Project Leadership and Coordination Include?

Project leadership and coordination turn ambitious ideas into practical plans that help staff, partners, consultants, and contributors work together toward a shared result.

This support is especially useful when a project has multiple workstreams, contributors, approvals, and deadlines—but no one has the capacity to maintain the full picture.

Support may include

Project scope, priorities, and work plans
Strategic planning and implementation roadmaps
Timelines, responsibilities, and milestone tracking
Coordination across staff, partners, and vendors
Meeting preparation, decisions, and follow-up
Progress tracking and status reporting

Typical deliverables

Project plans, timelines, responsibility matrices, task-tracking systems, meeting structures, decision logs, shared-file systems, status reports, and documented workflows.

Where this support ends

Project leadership strengthens the structure around the work. It does not replace organizational leadership, subject-matter expertise, or the decision-making authority your team and partners need to retain.

See project leadership examples · Learn when a cross-team project lead helps · Discuss your project

How Can a Nonprofit Improve Its Systems, SOPs, and Team Capacity?

Practical systems, standard operating procedures, and shared tools make recurring work easier to manage, explain, transfer, and sustain.

This support can help when important processes live in one person’s memory, staff handle the same task differently, files are difficult to find, or a transition has disrupted how work gets done.

Support may include

Workflow review and improvement
Standard operating procedures and decision guides
Onboarding materials and role-based instructions
Project-management systems and workflow design
Digital asset organization and file-management systems
Templates, trackers, calendars, and shared resources

Typical deliverables

Workflow maps, standard operating procedures, file structures, task-management systems, template libraries, checklists, documentation guides, and implementation plans.

Where this support ends

Operational systems and documentation do not replace legal, human-resources, financial, cybersecurity, or regulatory expertise when the work requires those specialists.

See systems and capacity-building examples · Learn how support is structured · Discuss your capacity gap

What Does Strategic Nonprofit Communications Support Include?

Strategic communications support helps nonprofits plan, create, organize, and distribute clear, engaging information aligned with their audiences, priorities, and goals.

This support can help when communications are spread across staff and partners, a publication or campaign needs coordination, or urgent information must give the public a clear path to understand and act.

Support may include

Communications planning and editorial coordination
Message development and audience-focused writing
Newsletters, blogs, website copy, and social content
Annual reports, toolkits, and campaign materials
Event communications
Content calendars, analytics, and distribution workflows

Typical deliverables

Communications plans, content calendars, messaging guides, newsletters, annual reports, toolkits, campaign materials, website copy, social media packages, and documented workflows.

Where this support ends

Your organization provides accurate information, timely decisions, and final approval. Paid advertising, media buying, and round-the-clock crisis response are not included unless they are specifically defined in the scope.

See communications examples · Learn how collaboration works · Discuss your communications needs

What WordPress and Digital-Presence Support Can a Nonprofit Outsource?

A nonprofit can outsource WordPress content organization, page improvements, visitor pathways, routine maintenance, resource publishing, and practical update procedures.

This support is useful when a website is outdated, difficult to maintain, disconnected from current priorities, or dependent on one person who no longer has the capacity to manage it.

Support may include

Website content strategy and page organization
Website copywriting and editing
WordPress updates and routine maintenance
Page, link, image, and mobile-display review
Search metadata and on-page content improvements
Coordination with designers, developers, and staff

Typical deliverables

Revised website copy, new or improved pages, content inventories, updated page structures, website reviews, maintenance checklists, metadata recommendations, and documented update procedures.

Where this support ends

This service focuses on WordPress content, structure, usability, maintenance, and coordination. Custom software development, server administration, and cybersecurity incident response may require specialized technical providers.

See website and digital examples · Use the nonprofit WordPress maintenance guide · Discuss your website

What Does Nonprofit Grant Research and Collaborative Writing Include?

Grant research and collaborative writing help a nonprofit identify opportunities, evaluate fit, organize requirements, and develop proposals grounded in the organization’s real work.

This support can help when a team lacks the capacity to research funders, coordinate contributions, manage application requirements, or turn program information into a cohesive proposal.

Support may include

Funder and opportunity research
Eligibility and fit review
Grant calendars and requirement tracking
Collaborative proposal development and writing
Coordination of staff and partner contributions
Editing, reporting, and submission support

Typical deliverables

Funding research summaries, opportunity trackers, application plans, proposal narratives, supporting-document checklists, reusable organizational language, and completed application materials.

Where this support ends

This service centers on grant research, proposal planning, and collaborative writing. Your organization contributes the program expertise, organizational documents, financial information, and final approvals that make each application accurate and authentic. It does not include donor-relations management or general fundraising management, and no grant writer can guarantee funding.

See grant and collaborative-writing examples · Learn what collaboration requires · Discuss a funding opportunity

When Should a Nonprofit Bring In Special-Project or Cross-Team Support?

Special-project or cross-team support provides focused leadership and additional capacity for work that crosses departments, organizations, or areas of expertise.

This can be a good fit during a transition, campaign, launch, urgent opportunity, or high-volume period—or for a time-sensitive initiative that does not require a permanent position.

Support may include

Research and project development
Advocacy campaigns and practical toolkits
Event and convening coordination
Multi-organization and coalition projects
Short-term capacity for timely opportunities
Coordination of communications, systems, and deliverables

Typical deliverables

Project plans, research summaries, campaign resources, event materials, partner workflows, practical toolkits, shared systems, and coordinated deliverables.

Where this support ends

Special-project support works best with an agreed outcome, scope, timeline, and division of responsibilities. It is not an undefined catch-all role or a substitute for permanent operational capacity when the work clearly belongs inside the organization.

See special-project examples · Decide whether outside capacity fits · Discuss your initiative

FLEXIBLE SUPPORT

The structure should fit the work.

A defined project

A clear purpose, agreed scope, realistic timeline, and specific deliverables.

Short-term capacity

Focused support for a transition, deadline, campaign, opportunity, or high-volume period.

Ongoing strategic support

A continuing relationship with a defined role, priorities, hours, and communication expectations.

Learn more about project structures, collaboration, timing, and pricing on the Working With Us page.

Find the support that fits your vision.

Tell me what your team is working toward, what is already in place, and where additional partnership would be most useful. See selected work in my portfolio. You can also explore practical resources related to project leadership, digital systems, and organizational capacity.

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