S2 Ep1631: GOOD DEEDS Hypatia Collaborative Supports Tampa Bay Non-Profits

In this episode of GOOD DEEDS, host Nanette Wiser chats with Hypatia Collaborative's Bradlie Nabours, Research and Evaluation Director about the work they are doing for non-profits in St. Pete. Nabours works with CEO Linsey Grove, DrPH, MPH, CPH and the team on cultivating a community of successful, sustainable organizations that make a difference in St. Petersburg & beyond. We talked about the history, services and organizations and how Hypatia helped those organizations. 👉Hypatia believes that providing coordinated capacity and administrative support to small, historically marginalized community-led and serving organizations can advance systems-change in our community.  They use a Shared Services Organizational Model that coordinates pooled services and resources to drive down costs and creates a supported ecosystem for the folks closest to our community’s needs. Systems change can be achieved by community-led investing, planning, and implementation while creating sustainable methods to build capacity and administrative infrastructure to support slow, thoughtful growth. 👉The Hypatia Collaborative was one of  23 local innovators to receive the Tampa Bay 2025 Innovation Award, in recognition of its transformative partnership with the City of St. Petersburg and the Pinellas Community Foundation. This award celebrates local organizations driving creative impact and institutional change across the Tampa Bay region. The Hypatia Collaborative was one of three organizations in the Partnership of the Year category for its pioneering Shared Services Organization (SSO) model in St. Petersburg, which pools capacity resources and administrative support for small community-serving nonprofits. In collaboration with municipal and philanthropic partners, Hypatia has launched an SSO that offers free or subsidized access to grant writing, legal and financial consulting, technology, training, and strategic planning services leveraging a network of regional small businesses and contractors. 👉 Examples of capacity building services case studies for non-profits here. Examples of workforce development case studies here.  LinkedIn | YouTube  HISTORY This project started with the IGNITE! The Deuces initiative. Ignite! the Deuces is focused on concurrent economic and community development in a historically black corridor by investing in physical, organizational, and community infrastructures. Funds raised were to be used to complete capital projects that have an existing narrative, budget, and execution plan created by and for nonprofits on the corridor to share resources in seeking funding and investment together rather than individually. Concurrently, we believed completing capital projects on this historic corridor could stave off gentrification as the existing community develops its own neighborhood. In 2022, the founding partners of IGNITE! The Deuces formed a 501(c)4 organization called Hypatia Collective as a non-profit structure to fundraise for nonprofit services.  In 2023, The Hypatia Collaborative, LLC was founded to house future non-capital projects like a Shared Services Organization (SSO). We were awarded a significant American Rescue Plan Act grant from the City of St. Petersburg and the Pinellas Community Foundation in 2024 to implement the Shared Services Organization model as a 3-year pilot.#BradlieNabours #LinseyGrove #hyptiacollaborative #sharedservices #gooddeeds #workforcedevelopment #cityofstpetersburg #gooddeeds #non-profits #nonprofitsolutions #nanettewiser #stpete #stpetefl  #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #cityofstpete  #dtsp #downtownstpete