PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Whether your organization is creating something new, expanding its footprint, or evolving an existing program, service, or curriculum, Bloom can partner with you on a project design and management process that is clear, thorough, and collaborative, setting up your organization for independence in later implementation and execution phases. Bloom team members each have individual histories of managing diverse and challenging “special projects” from their prior jobs. We take pride in our organizational and systems-creation skills.

  • 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.

  • Bloom loves making tools that people love to use. We customize the resources you need to wrangle all the important details of your project and get everyone on the same page. We also believe in creating tools that are easy to use and easy to maintain so they can live on for your organization beyond Bloom’s engagement.

  • Bloom believes in inclusive processes, but that means more people to manage. Let us help with building resources to connect and communicate with your team members and support with convenings and critical conversations.

  • Many planning processes result in a lovely plan, but then what? Bloom can offer accountability and project management support to help you bring your plan to life. You’ll have access to our suite of tracking tools and dashboards to create visual representations of your progress and keep stakeholders informed and excited.

  • Whether you need support with applying for grant funding, or you’ve been awarded a grant and need support with design, planning, or implementation, Bloom can help you manage the process and ensure you meet your requirements.

“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

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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 practices and provide opportunities 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 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

Working with the county district attorney’s office in its role as a “backbone” entity, Bloom helped steward a safe schools working group, formed to create a new initiative focused on developing and enacting a strategic plan to 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.

Over the course of 16 months, Bloom stewarded a multi-agency collective impact project, designing and conducting numerous cross-county research activities, facilitating myriad collaborative and community input-driven planning sessions, and ultimately managing production of the Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools Initiative’s strategic plan and implementation framework.

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 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.