We Are Strategic Communicators, Creative Thinkers, and Trusted Partners to Organizations Working Toward Meaningful Change.
What We Do
We see what isn't fully formed yet.
Some of our best work begins before there's a communications brief. We help clients find the story underneath the work, see connections across priorities, identify opportunities that haven't quite been named, and understand the communications challenge inside a larger organizational question.
From there, we can carry an idea from early strategy through narrative, brand, design, and content to a finished product.
Strategy +
Counsel
Narrative +
Messaging
Brand +
Creative
Convenings +
Placemaking
How We Work
Strategy and creativity belong together.
Our work often starts upstream, helping clients determine what they need to communicate, why it matters, and who needs to hear it. We listen, ask questions, connect dots, and bring an outside perspective to work that can be difficult to see clearly from inside an organization. Then we bring that thinking to life.
Our strategic and creative capabilities live under one roof, allowing us to move from an early idea to a clear narrative, compelling brand, useful communications strategy, or beautifully executed product without losing the thinking that inspired it.
This approach works particularly well for organizations navigating growth and change, leadership transitions, complex initiatives, cross-departmental priorities, equity-centered work, and opportunities that don't yet come with a tidy communications brief.
Who We Work With
Partners doing work that matters.
We work primarily with foundations and philanthropic organizations, nonprofits and community-based organizations, collaboratives and coalitions, and mission-driven organizations advancing equity and systems change.
Our partners come to us for more than communications capacity. They want people who will think with them, challenge assumptions when needed, see opportunities they may have missed, and stay close enough to the work to help bring good ideas to life.
Kindred Communications
Kindred Communications is a strategy and creative firm helping foundations, nonprofits, collaboratives, and mission-driven organizations communicate with clarity, creativity, and purpose.
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