Public Health Communications Agency in Connecticut

A real communications partner is the agency or contractor who knows your mission well enough to draft in your voice without supervision, who hits deadlines without reminders, and who pushes back when an idea will not serve your community. Vendors execute. Partners think.

Key Takeaways

• A vendor takes orders. A partner brings ideas.
• The cost of switching agencies is months of context loss. Pick one and invest.
• Ask candidates how they say no. The answer reveals everything.
• One contact, one rate, one team. Not a different account manager every quarter.
• The right partner saves enough staff time to pay for itself in the first quarter.

I spent half of my day on the phone with program staff who are basically drowning. They are great at their work, but they currently spend many hours a week fighting with a website builder, Canva documents, or trying to figure out why their last three social posts got zero traction.

Your nonprofit's mission is too important to leave exposed. Most small nonprofits are one ransomware event, one data breach, or one misplaced laptop away from a community trust crisis. Three protections close most of the gap: multifactor authentication, a written data inventory, and cyber insurance.

Key Takeaways

• Small nonprofits are common ransomware targets, not exceptions.
• Multifactor authentication on every staff account is non-negotiable.
• You cannot protect what you have not inventoried.
• Cyber insurance is a business expense now, not a luxury.
• Mission-critical data needs the same care as the mission itself.

Cyber criminals aren't just targeting corporations anymore. They're targeting nonprofits because nonprofits hold sensitive information and often lack the resources to protect it.

Nonprofit Marketing, Built for the way you work.

You know your mission. You need someone who knows your board, your funders, and your community just as well.

We've worked inside the nonprofit sector for over 20 years. Not as an outside vendor guessing at your world, but as a team that has sat in your meetings, read your grant reports, and understood why your board asks the questions it asks.

We build the marketing that nonprofits actually need: campaigns that respect a tight budget, brand work that survives a leadership change, and copy that speaks to donors, clients, and funders without sounding like three different organizations.

Our work earned a U.S. Surgeon General Champion Award for the Healthy Hartford campaign. Talk to us about your next campaign.