Have you ever needed more time for storytelling?
With my nonprofit copywriter and strategist hat on: I’m guessing you answered an enthusiastic “Yes!”. Like many organizations, charities and social cause businesses, you may be missing the resources you need to actually do storytelling. You may be a professional who is:
- Short on time and energy
- The only person on your team who is responsible for marketing and communications
- Stressed out by competing priorities and deadlines
- Unclear about how to increase engagement with storytelling
You’re in the right place.
As a nonprofit copywriter and strategist, I’m someone who truly understands. I have ~10 years of experience wearing several hats in the sector such as program coordinator, facilitator and grant writer, working in areas such as community development and youth leadership. I’ve taken this experience and built my insights and perspectives into the services I offer to you.
My services
If you’re not sure what you need yet, start with my Strategic Discovery Roadmap service.
Strategy👇🏿: Build a strong foundation for your storytelling
Messaging👇🏿: Clarify your stories to reach the right audiences
Brand consistency👇🏿: Establish trust and credibility with solid proof
Here’s a few clients I’ve worked with:
Learn more about my work with these clients and more by visiting my portfolio.
5 key benefits of me joining your team
- Save thinking and doing time for other priorities because I carefully respond to your needs and take the heavy lifting of consistent storytelling off your plate.
- Save money and energy outsourcing storytelling because my services focus on delivering end-to-end support for entire storytelling processes.
- Build your capacity for better storytelling because I use a three-pronged approach that starts with the fundamentals such as core strategies and clear messaging
- Achieve brand consistency because I ensure that everything you’ll do is aligned with everything you’ve done.
- Reach the right audiences because your stories will be equipped with clear messaging and aligned with strong strategies that help your organization stand out among the crowd.
Learn more about what you can expect as a client visiting my professional practice page.
End-to-end storytelling, not just storytelling.
Nonprofit storytelling is not easy. That’s why you’re here. You know that storytelling is an approach to strategically engaging with your audiences, building trust and brand recognition, demonstrating authenticity and thought leadership and making easier sells for donations. Storytelling in the non-profit sector is more than crafting stories. Storytelling starts long before you contact anyone for a story. It starts with your current capacity, needs, goals, strategy and messaging.
But it’s hard to get buy-in from key stakeholders, including your own team. Trust me, I’ve been there. It’s hard when the buy-in is fractional. It’s especially hard when the labour needed for effective storytelling only includes the creation of the stories. This kind of thinking is a surefire way for you to experience consistent burnout and for costs to balloon.
My services are the ones that help you build your capacity for storytelling through strategy, messaging and brand consistency. Storytelling should bring you ease, enjoyment and healthy curiosity, not stress, headaches and ballooning budgets. You should feel ready at all times to bring your stories into the world. If you work with this nonprofit copywriter and strategist, that’s what I’ll help you achieve. But don’t take my word for it.
Testimonials
“Jean got in touch right as we were looking to build more organization into our communications streams. She refreshed our brand guidelines, social media guidelines for volunteers and interns, and built a new social media strategy. With having these documents, we were able to better understand our needs moving forward. I’d recommend Jean to anyone looking for similar services. She’s extremely organized, responsive and knowledgeable in the fields of communications and marketing.”
Sophie Lyons, Communications Manager, Story Planet
“Jean worked very hard to understand the project (which was vague in all sorts of options and possibilities being presented to her). She mirrored back what we were saying and wrote concise and articulate emails outlining her understanding of the parameters of the project. Her work was meticulous.
Susan Steward, Manager of Canadian singer-songwriter Jane Siberry