Services

Business Development →

Let us put our connections and project management skills to work to connect you to your next client or partner, write a request for proposal to work with a school district, or apply for a grant to take your work to the next level. We have worked with multiple clients to apply for multiple grants and RFPs with foundations, school districts, and the federal government. We also have developed business development strategies for segments of customers and wrote partnership plans to help launch new ed technology companies. Finally, we can also help you with marketing, branding, and develop engaging original art for your outreach with a local Richmond artist.

Expansion/Scaling/Growth Planning →

Our team expanded organizations to new cities and states and has extensive experience working for state government and school districts. Let us help you design and execute your expansion, scaling and growth efforts. We know how to get things done.

Connecting to other Resources →

We are growing our team of consultants. But we also can connect you to other great people and organizations in marketing, development, data analysis and evaluation, finances, and curriculum development.

Recruitment & Talent Acquisition →

We have led recruitment, selection and onboarding strategies for teachers and staff for school districts and non-profits. Let us help you develop or improve your recruitment strategy. Let us help build your selection process. Let us build your onboarding process. Let us help you find diverse talent.

Designing for Equity with a Focus on Family Engagement →

We have experience building programs and plans designed for equity. We can create trainings, facilitations, policies, practices and programs for you and your organization. Kerry's dissertation created an intervention to help schools use family feedback to create more equitable schools including developing an Equity Noticing Tool that can be replicated in your school or district.

Organization & Employee Learning Plans →

What does your organization need to learn to get better at their work? Let us help you craft that agenda and help you and your team learn to do their jobs better and be an innovator in their field.

Strategic Planning/Key Performance Indicators/Research Agendas →

Let us help your organization write a strategic plan to align your work to reach the key performance indicators and performance goals that matter most to your organization and ensure the greatest impact of your work through design for justice practices.

User Experience & Alumni Engagement →

We have experience looking at organization through the lens of prospects through alumni. Taking a customer perspective is a great way to improve the work of your organization—particularly around equity.

Project Management →

Our team has their Project Management Certification so we can manage new work better. We can use those skills for your organization to get more done efficiently and effectively.

Leadership & Team Development →

BloomEd’s CEO has been a leader and manager in education and non-profit sectors for almost 30 years. She has led teams and managed offices for CEOs of a billion-dollar public school system. She can provide leadership development and mentorship to you and your staff to help them learn and grow.

Organizational Development →

We have helped build non-profits and worked for large public school districts while managing large scale reform. Let us help you design your next phase of your organization to help you prepare and plan for growth.

Qualitative Research →

We have extensive experience doing qualitative interviews, focus groups and benchmarking with other organizations to fast forward learning from your customers, employees, partners and understand how your organization fits into the marketplace.

Short Term Executive/Manager for Hire →

We are quick learners and can help your organization as a substitute or fractional executive or manager for hire while you grow.

Policy & Advocacy →

We have experience working with local school districts and state government. Kerry Swarr has her Masters in Public Policy and her Ed.D. in Education Policy and Leadership. We can support your policy and system change and would love to work with you on your efforts to build more equitable policies and systems. We have also support a school district execute an Advocacy Day in Sacramento, CA.

Strategic Partnerships & Relationship Building →

We know that organization should only do what it can only do and you should partner with other organizations to get more done together. We are connectors. Let us help strategize potential partnerships and build strategic relationships for you for win win outcomes.