Services
BWZ specializes in people and project management and development, thriving when building relationships that allow innovative organizations to do great work.
Bonnie supports clients in education and related fields with:
Project Planning, Management, & Implementation
Let me herd the cats and keep the train on the track. Between launching a new initiative from start to finish, rolling out a new product or piece, organizing all of the details of an upcoming event, or simply creating a project plan to hand off to someone else, I can ensure your project is successfully completed.
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Creating a project plan
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Setting roles & responsibilities, timelines, and processes
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Managing all workstreams to completion
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Checking in with team members
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Monitoring progress
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Event management and operations support
Fundraising &
Grant Management
The funding drives your work and funder relationships are a lot to manage. I support development teams to get asks made and manage the dollars that come in the door.
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Writing grant proposals and applications
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Managing a development team (i.e., grant writer, development coordinator) to set up systems, track a pipeline, and execute work
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Supporting CEOs/chiefs with funder calls, including setting overall strategy, research, prep, joining calls, and follow-up
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Creating pitch decks and collateral for funders
Chief of Staff-Style
Leadership
You’ve got the vision, I’m here to help make it a reality! Let’s work side by side and I can be your direct support to make your top priorities happen.
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Directly supporting the CEO and/or executive leadership team on strategy and organizational development
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Creating plans and executing on internal communication and team readiness, including ghost writing comms
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Prepping and running team meetings
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Acting as a bridge between an exec and other teams to facilitate progress
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Advising CEO on external affairs
External Affairs & Communications
There’s endless marketing and external work you could be doing; let me help you prioritize it, staff it, and get it done.
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Drafting, reviewing, copy editing, formatting, and sending internal and external communications, including through platforms like MailChimp
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Directly overseeing communications contractors, including website developers, marketing firms, social media firms, and graphic designers
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Managing communications plans through platforms like Hubspot
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Tracking MarComms metrics and making adjustments based on progress
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Working with marketing executives to bridge their plans with other teams
Adding Capacity on
Special Projects
Are you building the plane as you fly it? Do you need help figuring out what to do? I’ll plug in wherever you need and together, we’ll get it off the ground.
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Supporting leaders on specific, time-bound projects; adding capacity as needed
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Expertise in working with start-ups and building new teams
Select Work:
Creating RPPL's Affiliate Network
In the spring of 2022, I worked with RPPL’s co-chairs to outline a process to bring on affiliate organizations. I drafted what it would mean to be an affiliate, the requirements and criteria, the application, the systems for adding and communicating with them, and the types of events and learning opportunities we’d engage in with them.
I then executed on this plan, personally communicating with, reviewing applications from, accepting, onboarding, and managing the 50+ affiliate organizations RPPL welcomed into its network.
Since then, I’ve continued to be the main point of contact for the affiliates, managing and running the Brown Bag Lunches that garner 60+ attendees each month and sharing what RPPL is learning with them on a regular basis.