§00 / Bloom For Good

I'm a CTO. Four DMV nonprofits a year get me free.

A community tech sprint: one painful operational workflow, solved through automation, internal tooling, reporting, or practical AI. Same depth as paid work, no invoice.

Currently accepting applications for the next quarter. No active sprint yet — your nonprofit could be the first.

§01What a sprint actually fixes

Each sprint is built around a specific bottleneck — the kind of operational friction that quietly eats hours every week and pulls energy away from the mission. The shape varies, but the work usually looks like:

  • Intake

    Getting clients, volunteers, or applicants in the door without a manual paper trail.

  • Volunteer coordination

    Scheduling, communication, hour tracking.

  • Donor reporting

    Pulling data out of spreadsheets and platforms and into something a board or grantor can actually read.

  • Spreadsheet cleanup

    Turning the one spreadsheet your whole operation depends on into something durable.

  • Manual admin work

    Anywhere a staff member is doing the same thing by hand every week.

  • Practical AI enablement

    Using AI for the parts of the job where it actually saves time, not where it sounds impressive.

§02What I'll do · won't do

One painful workflow at a time.

I'll do: one painful operational workflow at a time, scoped tightly around a specific bottleneck. Automation, internal tooling, reporting, practical AI enablement. The goal is to save your team hours every week and redirect that energy toward the people you serve.

I won't: fix your printer, manage your IT vendor, build a brochure website, or be your ongoing tech person. The point is to remove one bottleneck and leave you running it — not to become your ongoing tech department.

§03The exchange

Bloom For Good is free. In exchange, I ask permission to document the impact — a tasteful case study, a testimonial, or a local community story. The work belongs to your org; the right to tell the story is something we agree on together at the end.

§04 / Qualifiers

Who this is for.

Four filters. If you check all four, apply.
01 / Geography
DMV area — DC, Maryland, Northern Virginia. In-person meetings should be possible.
02 / Org size
Under $2M annual operating budget.
03 / Structure
You're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
04 / Project shape
One defined operational bottleneck with a clear end-state.
§05 / Apply

The form is the qualifier.

Four sprints per year, one at a time. Apply early.

Because the work is free, this form is how I qualify fit — there's no screening call before the sprint. Give me enough to evaluate honestly. I read every application by hand.

Response within 2 weeks.