Need an Extra Set of Hands?

I provide flexible contract and project support for nonprofits, community organizations, small businesses, coalitions, and other mission-driven groups.

My sweet spot is the work that needs to get done — but doesn’t necessarily require another full- or part-time employee. I can step in for a specific project, a few hours a week, during a busy season, or on an ongoing basis.

I bring decades of experience in nonprofit and community work, communications, websites, events, publications, outreach, and project coordination — along with a knack for figuring things out and getting things done.

Communications & Content

  • Newsletter creation, editing, and distribution
  • Email communications and campaigns
  • Writing and editing website content
  • Press releases and media communications
  • Social media content and posting
  • Flyers, announcements, event promotions, and outreach materials
  • Donor, sponsor, member, and community communications
  • Copywriting, proofreading, and editing
  • Turning complicated information into clear, readable content

Website & Digital Support

  • WordPress website maintenance and content updates
  • Adding and updating pages, events, resources, staff, and other content
  • Website cleanup and organization
  • Troubleshooting everyday website issues
  • Content migration and restructuring
  • Resource directory and online calendar management
  • Basic HTML/CSS and Bootstrap
  • Search engine optimization (SEO) fundamentals
  • Website usability, readability, and content organization
  • Working with plugins, forms, event calendars, and other common website tools

I’ve designed, developed, maintained, or supported hundreds of websites over the years — from small business sites to nonprofit websites, community calendars, and large resource directories.

Events & Community Engagement

  • Event planning and coordination
  • Venue and catering coordination
  • Registration and Eventbrite management
  • Event promotion and participant communications
  • Sponsors and vendor coordination
  • Event schedules and logistics
  • Networking and community-building events
  • Workshops, trainings, fundraisers, and community events
  • Community outreach
  • Presentations and stakeholder engagement
  • Partnership development and relationship building

I especially enjoy the intersection of events + communication + community connection — bringing the right people together and making the details work behind the scenes.

Nonprofit & Coalition Support

  • Board and committee support
  • Meeting coordination and materials
  • Agendas, minutes, reports, and organizational documents
  • Membership and contact databases
  • Volunteer communications and coordination
  • Community resource development
  • Partner and stakeholder outreach
  • Program and project coordination
  • Research and information gathering
  • Special projects
  • Filling the miscellaneous gaps that inevitably appear in small organizations

I understand how nonprofits actually operate — including limited staff, limited budgets, volunteer boards, grant-funded projects, collaborative partnerships, and the reality that everyone tends to wear several hats.

Grants, Fundraising & Sponsorship Support

  • Grant research
  • Letters of inquiry (LOIs)
  • Small and mid-sized grant applications
  • Grant narrative development and editing
  • Project descriptions and supporting materials
  • Sponsor recruitment and communications
  • Sponsorship materials
  • Donor communications
  • Fundraising event support
  • Organizing information needed for grant applications and reports

I’m not a full-time professional grant writer, but I have practical experience developing and submitting grants and funding requests for community and nonprofit projects.

Publications & Design

  • Newsletters
  • Flyers and promotional materials
  • Reports and informational documents
  • Event materials
  • Magazine/publication production
  • Layout and print preparation
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Basic Adobe Illustrator
  • Coordinating content from multiple contributors through final production

Resource Directories & Community Information

This is a particularly unusual niche in my background.

I have experience creating, organizing, maintaining, and promoting community resource directories and event calendars, including:

  • Researching and organizing community resources
  • Maintaining hundreds of listings
  • Developing categories and taxonomy
  • Gathering updates from providers
  • Identifying outdated or missing information
  • Creating submission/update processes
  • Community outreach to increase participation
  • Calendar aggregation and event management
  • Making large amounts of information easier for the public to actually use

Administrative & Project Support

  • Project coordination
  • Document creation and formatting
  • Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
  • Google Workspace
  • Zoom and virtual meeting support
  • Database and spreadsheet maintenance
  • Scheduling and coordination
  • Research
  • Proofreading and editing
  • Process organization
  • Vendor and partner communications
  • General administrative overflow

Technology I Work With

WordPress • HTML • CSS • Bootstrap • CMS platforms • Eventbrite • Google Workspace • Microsoft Office • Adobe InDesign • Photoshop • Acrobat Pro • Illustrator • Zoom • email/newsletter platforms • online calendars • directory/database systems

And I’m comfortable learning new platforms when a project requires them.

A Few Things I’m Especially Good At

Connecting people and organizations. I naturally see potential partnerships, resources, and opportunities for collaboration.

Making information usable. Whether it’s a website, newsletter, directory, grant application, or event invitation, I like turning scattered information into something people can understand and use.

Wearing multiple hats. My background crosses communications, technology, nonprofit administration, events, design, outreach, and project management.

Working independently. I’ve spent many years managing projects and businesses, so I don’t need a lot of supervision to move something forward.

Figuring things out. Sometimes you don’t need a specialist — you need someone experienced enough to research the problem, learn the system, talk to the right people, and get it handled.

How We Could Work Together

You don’t necessarily need to create a position to get some help.

I may be a good fit if your organization is saying:

  • “Our website desperately needs updating.”
  • “Nobody has time to get the newsletter out.”
  • “We have an event coming up and need someone to coordinate it.”
  • “We need someone to keep our calendar/resource directory current.”
  • “We should be doing more outreach, but nobody has time.”
  • “We have a grant opportunity but need help pulling everything together.”
  • “We need communications help, but not 20 or 40 hours a week.”
  • “There are twelve little projects sitting around that nobody owns.”

That’s the kind of work I like.

I’m available for short-term projects, ongoing contract support, special projects, and fractional/part-time support, particularly for nonprofits, community organizations, coalitions, and small businesses.

Based in Port Angeles, Washington | Available for local and remote projects