Services Overview
Rural communities carry the same compliance burdens, reporting standards, and stakeholder complexity as metropolitan ones, with a fraction of the staff. A town of five thousand people administering a $1,000,000 federal award answers to the same auditors as a city of five hundred thousand. My practice supplies the project discipline and technical depth those communities need, without the cost of a permanent hire.
Four service lines.
Most engagements draw on two.
Planning & Strategy
Place-based investment strategy, downtown and economic development plans, community and developer surveys, stakeholder engagement design, and relationship mapping across corridors and jurisdictions.
See planning and strategy
Project & Program Management
Contract and fractional project management for grant-funded initiatives. Scope, schedule, and budget control, risk registers, partner accountability, and documented closeout.
See project management
Grant Strategy & Administration
Funding strategy, proposal development, capital stack assembly, compliance monitoring, audit-ready recordkeeping, and funder reporting.
Small Business Technical Assistance
One-on-one counseling, workshops, lender readiness, and outreach delivered on behalf of CDFIs, chambers, and regional programs.
Hourly Focused support, a specific problem, or advice when a question lands
Monthly Retainer Ongoing guidance where continuity matters, fractional project management
By Deliverable Defined scopes with a clear endpoint, priced up front
How engagements are structured
