Collaborative Network Partners
Our network of administrative vendors and services provides an array of administrative services.
Meet our Partners
Building Capacity through a Diverse Network
Hypatia Collaborative has established relationships with nonprofit capacity-building consultants and agencies across St. Petersburg and beyond. Below are the primary consultants and agencies that are active members of the Collaborative Network.
Financial management, bookkeeping, tax preparation
Jodi Chemes is a Certified Public Accountant with a Master’s in Taxation located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Her firm specializes in bookkeeping and tax preparation, payroll, Quickbooks training, corporate entity formation, nonprofit or business growth, tax planning, and financial structuring.
grant writing, research, and evaluation
Carriage House Consulting provides organizations with access to additional tools and resources to do more daily – grant research and writing, special event logistics, strategic planning, research, and evaluation, as well as marketing and communication planning and execution.
Program management, professional development, and coaching
Empact Solutions (ES) is a certified veteran-owned and for-profit-woman-owned small business company. As a consulting organization, ES provides supportive leadership, management training, coaching, project management, and speaking to organizations that want to add value to the people with which they serve and work. ES is uniquely suited to assist targeted businesses to achieve excellence in leadership, management, diversity, change, racial equity, customized training, and growth via its certification and positive past performance in the above-noted areas.
In a world where many times leadership development and training are lecture-based presentations, ES facilitates organizations resourceful, dynamic, and introspective for current and upcoming leaders or trainers who want a value-add shift in performance results.
ES offers leadership modalities that give tools for personal and organizational achievement and makes the participants feel connected, empowered, and enriched to make a powerful life-transforming contribution to the people and the organization they serve.
Empact Solutions (ES) has achieved excellence in its tailored programs and training in the areas of strategic leadership, diversity, inclusion, and management to help organizations build a culture of learning. As a result, the civilians and employees receiving these services learn to identify how they can create more impact, change, and growth within their organizations.
The CEO and President of Empact Solutions is Elizabeth V. Siplin. She is a highly respected professional and is a 100% Disabled Military Veteran who served our nation as a Military Police for 27 years while performing in positions of increased responsibility.
While in the United States Army, she served as the Directorate of Emergency Services Sergeant Major and possesses an MBA in Business and Sports Management. She has experience as both a Project Manager and Physical Security Specialist who contributed to enhancing an agency’s readiness by providing a wide range of installation management and human services support to civilians, Soldiers, and their family members.
This type of background is vitally important when working with governmental agencies and their management and human services structures. She has subject matter expertise, as it relates to all of Empact Solutions’ projects in the areas of critical thinking and problem solving, strategic planning, and coaching and mentoring.
Our team is also filled with professionals to cover every part of your business needs. Each professional team member holds many years of formalized education and experience in their respective fields.
We provide the following services:
Professional Development
Training: Detailed Leadership Skills, Behaviors, and Preferences:
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Financial Readiness
- Leadership Training
- Customized Training
Leadership Development Program: Explore Key Concepts such as Identity, Power, Privilege, and Communication:
- Professional Development
- Leadership Development
- Business Development
- Youth Development
Coaching: Make Dramatic Shifts in Leaders Critical Thinking From Leadership Experts:
- Entrepreneurial Coaching
- One-on-One Mentoring Sessions
- Group Mentoring Programs
Organizational Management
Project Management: Defining the Right Type of Project Using Strategic Analyses, Research, and Analytics
- Planning and Development
- Visualizing
- Identifying Goals
Program Management: Provide a Broad Range of Educational Programs and Project Management Software Operations
- Management
- Designing
- Training of People, Property and Logistical Management
- Maintenance Management
Research and Marketing Analysis: Extract More from Your Data, Gain Insights and Make Actionable Decisions
- Assessments
- Understanding Organization’s Culture
- Understanding Its People
- Understanding Its Needs and Motivations
Strategic Planning
- Implementation
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Creating Meaningful Collaborations
Public relations, marketing, and communications strategy
Madeira Public Relations opened its doors in 2011 and has a rich history of serving respected local and national nonprofit organizations. Locally, our clients have included the American Heart Association, Gulfcoast Legal Services, Early Learning Coalition, PARC, Healthy Bones Tampa Bay, Meow Now, Florida Dream Center, Friends of Strays, and the Nonprofit Leadership Center.
Our work for these organizations included developing marketing and communications strategies; campaign planning and execution; research; media relations; social media campaigns; policy campaigns; content development; video production; graphic design; web design; coalition building; core skills training; and more.
Each of the aforementioned clients hired Madeira PR to lead projects that would positively impact all members of our community. Our work with the American Heart Association included outreach specifically targeting the public health needs of local black and brown residents. An example of this work included developing a relationship with The Weekly Challenger and ghostwriting articles on timely heart health topics.
Our work with GulfCoast Legal Services included a bilingual video project and research to determine how best to formulate a campaign that would effectively reach vulnerable populations.
The coalition we created for American Bone Health specifically focused on health equity and involved our seeking input and participation from such entities as the Center for Health Equity, Metro Health, military veterans, the Pinellas County Urban League, and the Hispanic Services Council, among numerous others.
One of our core service areas includes researching and evaluating an organization’s functional processes as it relates to its core mission. This commonly includes guiding nonprofit leaders on how to more effectively manage their team. These findings and recommendations are then built into the strategies we develop for our clients. This can include multi-year marketing and communications plans as well as crisis mitigation strategies.
Our work with Meow NOW, a local nonprofit dedicated to reducing the community’s stray cat population by spaying and neutering feral cat colonies, serves as an example of how we integrated management consulting services into our communications and marketing strategies.
When we first met with the organization, they shared specific fundraising goals, particularly around staffing and operational infrastructure. Through extensive research and consultation with leadership, a more nimble and cost-effective operational strategy was devised for this organization.
These operational changes redirected the focus of the marketing and communications plan we developed and presented to Meow NOW’s board of directors.
Legal consulting and government affairs
I am born and raised in St. Petersburg and I have an extensive history of supporting and receiving benefits from local nonprofit organizations. When I was 14 years old, I was a student of Les Jeunes Danseurs, a nonprofit organization that allowed ballet students to take classes free of charge. In order to provide payment to the ballet teachers, family members and those old enough to, would work concessions at Tropicana Field and the former Bayfront Center. Since graduating law school, I work continuously with Community Law Program, a legal aid society in St. Petersburg. There, I counsel on the issues of non-profit organizations, family law, and bankruptcy. Community Law Program selected me as the recipient of their Young Lawyer Volunteer of the Year in 2012 and their Lawyer Volunteer of the Year in 2019.
My experience in working with nonprofits stems from my volunteer work at Community Law Program. As a legal aid society, Community Law Program serves the needs of St. Petersburg’s disadvantaged clients. Since 2020, I personally handled 21 pro bono matters for Community Law Program, in the areas of family law, bankruptcy, and non-profit organizations. Most of St. Petersburg’s poorest residents, who meet the income criteria of Community Law Program, are Black and Brown. I have handled their divorces, their paternity cases, their bankruptcies, and I have assisted them in establishing and governing non-profit organizations.
I have experience evaluating a range of non-profits. My work with Community Law Program allowed me to work with larger non-profit organizations, which receive federal funding and have various entities within them, as well as organizations that are run by a single person. My nonprofit experience with nonprofit entities includes churches, non-partisan groups, cheerleading, animals, and therapy, to name a few. I have been able to evaluate the individual organization’s needs, complete the necessary forms to obtain 501(c) status, and determine what continuing level of support each organization will need to continue its operations.
Technology, Database development, and systems change
Fetch Data provides web systems development, operations consulting, platform integration, data analysis, and Quick Base support. Fetch Data will be the lead agency developing and managing our client database to share technology resources.
dei training, grant writing, event planning
At Invincible Summer Enterprises, we are committed to providing the highest level of service and best possible outcomes for our clients. We take the time to develop a close relationship and understand each client’s unique needs. We pride ourselves on prompt, clear, and efficient communication. We’re always striving to deliver creative, thoughtful, and practical solutions to our client’s concerns.
We have over 15 years of experience in providing exceptional services and can’t wait to work with you!
Project management & Consulting
If you are looking to find your voice, then look not further than Dr. Loretta Caldwell-aka The Mgmt. Dr. of Caldwell Management Solutions. As a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker, Dr. Thompson focuses on leadership growth and business development.
Dr. Thompson continues to motivate audiences to be the best version of themselves and add value and worth to others. By bringing a fresh perspective to her trainings; her wit and humor is certain to add a spark to any meaningful conversation.
Dr. Thompson received her undergraduate education from the University of Pennsylvania where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Urban Studies; she furthered her formal education by receiving her Master of Arts Degree from Howard University in Criminal Justice and Urban Studies. Dr. Thompson completed her dissertation in December 2016 for her doctoral degree from Nova Southeastern University in Organizational Leadership and Management.
Since opening her leadership and management consulting firm in 2007, Dr. Thompson has served on both national and international leadership teams. She has stayed abreast on new and transformational modalities that can be tailored to fit her clients. Believing that ‘everything rises and falls on leadership,’ this certified women-owned business company is available to move you and your team forward.
“Let the size of your belief determine the size of your goal.”
Strategic planning, project management, research, evaluation, & process improvement
Strategic, tactical, and practical leader with demonstrated success in building and enhancing internal and external partnerships. An advocate for stronger communities, recognized for skills in strategic planning with successful execution and measurement. Project management professional and certified change management practitioner adept at collaborating with multiple stakeholders to facilitate improvements. Strong background in budgeting, cross- departmental project management, training, and team development.
strategic planning, facilitation, & professional development
Collaborative leader with experience working with multiple sectors including corporate, government, nonprofit, and philanthropy. Advancing collective action, social change, and racial equity. Skilled in strategic planning, meeting design, program development, coalition building, network theory, relationship building, and community engagement. Strong analytical business professional with a Masters of Science in Environmental Science from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
Professional experience includes: designing and implementing a community led listening project, leading community engagement efforts for a private foundation, supporting a national equity and social justice network to improve oral health access and outcomes, managing a local multi-county nonprofit focused on improving community health and wellness, serving as the project director for a large multi-year federal maternal and child health grant program, supporting a community consortium, coordinating a countywide coalition to address teen pregnancy, implementing youth development programs, and working as a business consultant for a worldwide management and consulting firm.
DEI training & professional development
Inclusivity, LLC. is an organizational development and marketing advisory firm that passionately believes a diverse workforce fuels creativity, innovation and economic growth. Our mission is to work with clients and organizations to advance cultural competencies in the workplace and amongst the workforce. We believe in the innovative potential of inclusive organizational culture. Our subject matter experts and experienced consultants are committed to developing sustainable DEI praxis across a wide range of industries and organizations.
professional development & nonprofit capacity training
Merit provides capacity assessment, building, and curated support services.
We help nonprofits go from good to great through our quick-yet-robust, metrics-oriented capacity assessment.
Through our signature product, Merit, we give nonprofit teams a powerful tool to improve how they do what they do.
We are a one-stop-shop for team development, offering coaching, custom workshops, and strategic facilitation.
grant writing, fund development, strategic planning, financial management, & nonprofit consulting
SDC Strategies LLC was founded on the belief that community-rooted organizations are powerful agents of change. What sets us apart is our unique understanding and relatability to the challenges faced by our clients. As experienced nonprofit professionals with a background in public service, we connect with our clients on a personal level, enabling us to truly comprehend your needs and provide tailored solutions.
We collaborate with small to mid-sized organizations dedicated to addressing complex community issues. Our areas of expertise encompass housing and homelessness, health inequity, tackling root causes of poverty, and bridging community connection gaps. We empower and support community leaders who are passionate about driving positive change but may encounter obstacles in time, capacity, or expertise to support their organization’s growth.
Together, we are committed to helping you realize your vision and make a lasting impact within your organization and the communities you serve. SDC Strategies LLC is here to champion your success and accelerate your impact!
Join Our Collaborative Network
Are you interested in being a part of The Hypatia Collaborative and helping local nonprofits? Contact us using the form to the right.