Business Communications
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Great content legitimizes your business or brand.
It connects customers with what you do and why you do it. I can help clarify your story and broadcast it better. I can also revise your existing content so it's precise and current.
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SBDC Counseling
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In 2019, I joined my local Small Business Development Center as a business development counselor. In addition to mentoring referral clients in areas of business start-up and development, I was part of a team in Northeast Iowa that ran a triage helpline through the COVID-19 shutdown and reopening.
Over nine months we served more than 1,000 clients applying for pandemic-related assistance. As a result, Northeast Iowa businesses who received SBDC consultation were awarded more than $22.3M in state funding alone and exponentially more in federal funding. Now located on the Nature Coast of Florida, I specialize in the following areas (and if I'm not the ideal resource, I'll connect you with what you need!):
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Grant writing
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Small businesses need working capital. Grant programs provide it.
But making the match requires thorough planning and bullet-proof writing. I specialize in hearing where a business is 'at' and writing a strong application for programs that will serve its needs -- not the other way around. Services include drafting or revising a business plan specific to grant-funded activities, financial projections, and the writing and compilation of the grant application, including required materials, such as letters of support. To date, grants I've written or co-authored have been awarded more than $500,000. In 2023, I was also part of a project that was awarded $1.4M by the U.S. Department of Energy. |
Creative nonfictionSome people know their grandparents only as shuffling, off-smelling residents of nursing homes. I’m a little luckier. |
I admit, I'm happiest when I'm weaving words together. Or revisiting and revising what I've written. Of course, I hope my work speaks to others, but first, it speaks to me.
If you like what you've sampled here, want to read more, or have a project you'd like me to contribute to, I'm game. |
Freelance journalism
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My first full-time employment was with a start-up magazine publishing company. I had the great luck and privilege of covering the mountain communities of Driggs, Idaho, and Jackson, Wyoming, through all stages of print production: story assignment, writing, editing, art direction, layout, and distribution. Eventually I was a managing editor, with a hand in issue planning, management of contributing writers and photographers, and several layers of operations.
I love the pace and space afforded by magazine--both in print and online--but I've also contributed to newspapers, blogs, technical publications, newsletters, and more. I can also take supporting photos on location as needed. Throw me a lead, a word count and a deadline, and I'll run with it. |
My spirit food?
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I never tire of interviewing people--about what they do, what they've learned, what they've endured, what they hope, and what they've achieved--recently, or long into the past.
Ask enough good questions, and you've got a fascinating record, whether transcribed to written form, tailored into a finished audio clip, or organized as narrative for corresponding photographs. This field of work has endless multimedia potential, but it's rooted in practiced, focused interviewing--the asking of meaningful questions and the distilling of valuable truths from complex answers. If you have a person or a topic in mind, I'd love the opportunity to learn more. I'll record and shape it to meet your goals. I am also trained as a death doula and hospice volunteer to be the story-gatherer in that rare space. |