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Your nonprofit’s story deserves to be told, and we want to help you tell it as effectively as possible. Our team of experienced, full-service communications consultants provides the fundraising strategies, marketing copy, and empathetic storytelling you need to perfect your messaging. We create campaigns that not only touch donors’ hearts but also inspire them to become long-term supporters.

Reach more people, acquire more donors, and strengthen supporter relationships with Meyer Partners.

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Reach Hearts and Minds with Your Nonprofit’s Story

We’ll work with your team to craft genuine, heartfelt messages that support your donor acquisition and stewardship goals. Using a foundation of the real, compelling stories that make up your nonprofit’s work, we’ll infuse every communication with resonance, relevance, and respect—the three key components of successful nonprofit storytelling.

Then, we’ll help you widen your organization’s reach with data-driven audience targeting strategies and integrated, multichannel marketing campaigns. Harness the storytelling power of direct mailandthe immediacy of email and website copy to connect with supporters and inspire giving.

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Our Nonprofit Communications Consulting Services

Direct Mail Fundraising

Reach more potential donors with revenue-driving direct mail campaigns. We’ll cultivate your donor list and leverage prospect lists to get your story in front of audiences who are ready to give.

Planned Gift Marketing & Fundraising Consulting

Inspire long-time, multi-gift donors to increase their impact with planned gifts. We’ll design targeted legacy marketing campaigns that appeal to donors genuinely and respectfully.

Donor Analytics & Segmentation

Personalize fundraising appeals and improve audience targeting with our insightful data analytics services. Predictive modeling drives our decision-making, providing you with more personal communication strategies and better results.

Integrated Print & Digital Communications

Improve donor outreach and acquisition efforts with cohesive messaging across print and digital channels. We’ll strategically create content, design, and timelines tailored to your donor base.

Creative Storytelling

Tell your nonprofit’s story with genuine, compelling communications designed to resonate with different segments of your audience.

Donor Cultivation Campaign Strategy

Move donors up the donor pyramid with data-driven, personalized upgrade campaigns. We’ll design mid-level donor stewardship plans that strengthen relationships until they’re ready to give more.

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Our Work

Direct mail appeal created by our nonprofit communications consultants for MAP International

MAP International—New Donor Acquisition

MAP International, a Christian organization that provides medicine to populations in need across the globe, partnered with our consultants to expand their direct response fundraising. With our expertise, we provided:

  • Cooperative databases and predictive models to identify donors with the highest long-term revenue potential

  • Ask strategies optimized for different fundraising campaigns throughout the year

  • A complete creative package with new attention-grabbing visuals, storytelling, and personalization

By working with us, MAP International increased its total number of active donors by 85% year-over-year.

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Concordia University—Donor-Centered Storytelling

Development staff at Concordia University, Nebraska came to us looking to tell a compelling story in their direct mail appeals. We designed standout fundraising appeals featuring:

  • The heartfelt story of a scholarship recipient, complete with her photo and her own words about donors’ impact

  • Donor-centric language designed to resonate with readers and inspire them to support the next generation of students

  • Additional information about ways donors can increase their impact with matching gifts and monthly giving

Ultimately, this appeal put giving to Concordia University’s annual fund 13% ahead of where it was the prior year.

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Marketing content created by Meyer Partners’ nonprofit communications experts for Concordia University
Direct mail envelope and appeal designed by Meyer Partners’ nonprofit communications consultants

St. Labre Indian School—Planned Gift Marketing

St. Labre Indian School sought a communications consultant to spread awareness of its non-cash and planned giving opportunities. To boost legacy giving, the Meyer Partners team:

  • Created a multi-channel annual marketing strategy to promote legacy donation methods

  • Used predictive modeling to analyze and target 500,000 donors for specialized appeals

  • Designed direct mail packages, quarterly newsletters, emails, and a new webpage with planned gift information

With our help, St. Labre Indian School achieved more than six times growth in direct responses to planned giving appeals.

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Why Choose Meyer Partners’ Communications Agency?

 

Fundraising communications consultants with 40+ years of experience

 

Our consultants aren’t just marketing experts—they’re well-versed nonprofit professionals with decades of experience in fundraising.

Our team members have been in your shoes, serving as development directors, board members, and volunteers for a range of nonprofits facing the same challenges you are. As communications consultants, they’ve helped countless nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and higher education institutions surpass their fundraising goals and do more of what matters.

We keep relationships at the heart of everything we do, and that includes forming true partnerships with the organizations we serve. Our consultants bring empathy, expertise, and passion to every client relationship and communication we create.

 

Data-backed, relationship-driven communications

 

At Meyer Partners, our nonprofit communications consultants use the power of data to strengthen donor relationships.

Through data analysis and predictive modeling, we’ll determine which donors may be ready to upgrade and which are at risk of lapsing to segment your communications effectively.

From there, we’ll help you design targeted donor stewardship campaigns that communicate your nonprofit’s appreciation and need for donors’ continued support. Data drives our personalization strategies, fundraising appeals, and strategic outreach so you can better engage and retain donors long-term. By combining data with emotionally resonant storytelling, you’ll make donors feel more connected to your nonprofit than ever.

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What Clients Say About Our Communications Consultants

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Janice Bryant, Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Public Relations, MAP International

“Meyer Partners has been an invaluable ally in our mission and success. Their expertise in strategy and implementation of our acquisition program has been a game-changer, leading to massive growth in our donor file. Their meticulous commitment to excellence has been instrumental in driving our organization forward and accomplishing more than we ever dreamed possible.”

Mark Hofman, Executive Director, LCMS Mission Advancement The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

“We consider Meyer Partners to be a full-fledged member of our team, and have been very pleased with this partnership. They understand our context, challenges, and strengths. Denny, Bonnie, Alyssa and the rest of the firm bring insights, experience, and capabilities we would be hard-pressed to duplicate, and deliver helpful insights into how we can better serve, communicate with, and engage with our constituents.”

Drew Forster, Director of Communications and Public Relations, National Coast Guard Museum Association

"With a long history in the industry, Bonnie, Dennis and their group are capable of managing sizable accounts. Bottom line, Meyer Partners is a highly productive, effective agency with a smart, engaged team that listens and produces."

Ileana Daly-Bronstein, Executive Director of Development, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute

“I’m thrilled to see the growth in our donor base. I like to spend my time visiting donors personally, but my time is limited! The communications strategies we’ve developed and implemented in concert with Meyer Partners are very important to our program.”

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Our consultants provide data-backed fundraising strategies, marketing copy and design, and empathetic storytelling to help you engage donors. Specific services include:

    • Direct mail fundraising: Revenue-driving campaigns that leverage prospect lists and your housefile to inspire giving

    • Integrated print and digital communications: Cohesive, brand-aligned messaging across channels

    • Creative storytelling: Emotional appeals that tell your story with resonance, relevance, and respect

    • Marketing data analytics: Precise audience targeting and predictive modeling for more personalized, high-ROI communications

    • Donor stewardship communications: Comprehensive plans for thanking donors and updating them on impact

  • Yes, our team provides fully integrated print and digital marketing communications. We believe in a multichannel marketing strategy that integrates direct mail with email, optimized landing pages, and digital advertising to engage your donor base and motivate them to give.

  • Yes! Donor acquisition is a key goal we structure our communications services around. We use data analytics and cooperative databases to identify donors with the highest long-term revenue potential. 

    For example, we helped MAP International acquire nearly 9,000 new donors and increase their active donor count by 85%. One new donor even gave $30,000!

  • We serve 501(c)(3) organizations of all kinds, including local organizations, faith-based nonprofits, higher education institutions, healthcare research orgs, and more. Explore our case studies to see the powerful results we’ve achieved with nonprofits across cause areas.

 
 

Start improving your communications strategy today.

Contact our team of experienced nonprofit communications experts to get started. Let’s work together to achieve more for your mission.

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