PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Whether your organization is creating something new or evolving an existing program or curriculum, Bloom can partner with you on a project design process that is thorough and collaborative, setting up your organization for independence in the implementation and execution phases.
-
You might know where you want to go, but not quite how to get there. Leave that to Bloom. We specialize in articulating a thoughtful and customized approach that will match your goals and lead you to your intended outcome.
-
Before we dive into the work, Bloom values an opportunity to get to know you, your organization, and the ecosystem in which you work. We build a strong foundation at the start of the project to ensure we can be effective and nimble partners to you through each step of the process.
-
Whether it’s with a small leadership check-in or a session with 100 staff members, Bloom will lead the design, facilitation, and reporting for each engagement. We always come prepared with a clear agenda, accessible materials and slide decks, and experienced facilitators.
-
Bloom believes that no detail is too small when it comes to your project. From agendas to one-pagers, slide decks to final reports, every Bloom output is polished and professional.
-
Bloom doesn’t create plans that sit on shelves. Through our myriad of accountability strategies and our toolbox of implementation and progress monitoring supports, we make sure you have the tools you need to bring your vision to life.
“Working with Bloom will not only support your organization in developing a plan, the work enriches relationships among all stakeholders.”
-President & CEO, Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative
Let’s talk! Tell us about your needs and Bloom can advise on the best approach to fit your organization, your timeline, and your budget.
Project Management Spotlights
Client names have been withheld to respect confidentiality, but client references are always available upon request.
“We are enormously grateful to the entire Bloom team for their work on this project. Thanks to their efforts we were able to develop a strategic roadmap for a critical area of our work. They ensured that our partners were deeply involved in the planning process throughout which I believe led to a stronger final product that built on the collective expertise of everyone involved.”
-Director of Strategic Partnerships, Read by 4th
Strategy Design
School District
A school district’s Office of Early Childhood Education chose Bloom to lead a strategy design process to create “best practice sites” for teaching early literacy across the district. These sites would serve as a network of K-3 classrooms that demonstrate exemplary early literacy practice and provide the opportunity for educators to observe and engage in professional learning that advances their early literacy instructional practice.
Over the course of nine months, Bloom facilitated a series of research and planning activities, engaging both internal district stakeholders and external partners and peers across the country doing similar work. In collaboration with a cross-departmental district working group, Bloom researched best practices, facilitated vision-setting, led strategy design groups, and engaged with stakeholders through teacher focus groups and interviews. This process resulted in the creation of a comprehensive blueprint laying out a model for Best Practice Sites for Early Literacy and a detailed multi-phase implementation plan.
Coalition-Building
County
Led by the county’s district attorney’s office, a safe schools working group was formed to create a new initiative focused on developing and enacting a strategic plan that will serve as a roadmap for ensuring school-aged youth in Delaware County receive the behavioral health, mental health, and substance misuse services they need.
The working group partnered with Bloom Planning as the project lead to drive forward feasibility research, coalition-building, and strategic planning for the initiative.
[Add more text]
Over the course of 16 months, Bloom designed and conducted numerous research activities, facilitated myriad collaborative and community-input driven planning sessions, and ultimately managed production of the initiative’s strategic plan.
Strategic Roadmap
Nonprofit
A local nonprofit focused on promoting the importance of early literacy initiated a seven-month process to build a strategic roadmap for increasing student access to high-quality, targeted reading tutoring in out-of-school-time (OST) spaces, specifically for K-3 students who require one-on-one assistance or small group instruction from a trained reading tutor.
Led by Bloom and guided by monthly meetings with a cross-sector working group, the strategic design process included hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and feedback sessions through collaboration across and beyond the organization’s expansive network of partners.
The four-phase planning process ultimately yielded a three-pronged strategic approach and implementation roadmap. Informed by both local and national models and best practices, the roadmap articulated a plan for building partnerships, capacity, and funding to create a service-delivery model that maximizes impact for Philadelphia’s highest need readers.