Public Health runs on people.
We help them run it better
Collabor8tive is a women-owned public health consulting firm serving small nonprofits across North Carolina — with strategy, communications, and the systems to make it stick.
Most NC organizations doing real community work face the same set of problems.
- Grants that don't connect to a larger strategy
- Partnerships that exist on paper but don't move anything
- Programs doing meaningful work with no infrastructure underneath them
- Decisions that have to happen fast with no one to think them through with you
You didn't get into this work to manage fragmentation. But that's often what it becomes.
What We Do
Three ways we show up for public health.
Consulting
Grant writing, strategic planning, program design, policy advocacy, and operational support for small nonprofits that don't have the staff to do it alone.
See services →The Collabor8tive Collective
A membership model for NC nonprofits — shared grant research, group strategy sessions, peer learning, and coalition funding opportunities. Stronger together than alone.
Join the interest list →Health Communications & Design
Policy briefs, event materials, flyers, and advocacy documents that actually get read. Built for orgs that have something to say and need help saying it clearly.
See our work →NC-based. Systems-focused. Implementation-obsessed.
We work alongside organizations to build what makes everything else possible — funding strategy, operational clarity, coordination systems, and partnerships that hold when the pressure is on.
We know this landscape. The funders. The coalitions. The gaps. The realities that don't show up in grant applications but determine whether programs survive.
We're not here to hand you a report and disappear. We're here to help you build something that works after we're gone.
This is what implementation-focused looks like.
- Secured and managed $500K+ in concurrent federal funding for older adult programs in North Carolina
- Wrote the first fall prevention grant ever awarded to the High Country — now the foundation of the Aging Well Program at Appalachian State University's Institute
- Developed a 1:1 caregiver support model — including home safety equipment, resource coordination, and end-of-life planning — when every other region was running a standard respite program
- The standards from that caregiver work are now used statewide for North Carolina's Family Caregiver Support Program
Built programs that outlasted the consulting — because the infrastructure was designed to hold.
Not sure what you need? Start here.
You don't have to know exactly what you're looking for — just find where you are.
The Collabor8tive Collective
A curated network for North Carolina nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and coalitions doing cross-sector work. Members get a vetted directory, funding alerts, and direct matchmaking. This not an algorithm — an actual person who knows the field.
Get notified when we launchWhether you know exactly what you need or you're still working that out — this is a good place to start.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
amber@collabor8consult.com