SERVICES

At Let It Shine Communications, we help small nonprofits communicate with more clarity, confidence, and consistency. Some organizations need expert guidance to figure out what to say, where to focus, and what to fix. Others need hands-on help creating the materials, stories, and systems that bring their mission to life. Many need both. That’s why our services are organized into two core lines:

Consulting

Strategic guidance, expert feedback, and practical recommendations to help you strengthen your communications, fundraising, and visibility.

Projects

Done-for-you or done-with-you deliverables that help you tell your story, reach your audience, and show your impact.

Whether you need a roadmap, a second set of expert eyes, or a trusted team to bring something important to life, we’re here to help.

Consulting

Our consulting services are designed for nonprofits that need clarity, strategy, and trusted support before jumping into execution. These engagements help you make better decisions, strengthen what you already have, and move forward with confidence.

Visibility Readiness Review

A strategic review of how clearly and effectively your organization is showing up.

This signature service helps nonprofits identify what is working, what is missing, and what may be keeping them from connecting with donors, partners, funders, volunteers, or the community. We assess your messaging, brand visibility, digital presence, communications materials, and overall readiness to tell a strong, consistent story.

You’ll come away with practical recommendations, clear priorities, and a better understanding of what to fix first.

Best for: organizations that feel scattered, outdated, inconsistent, or unsure how they’re coming across.

Communications Plans

A realistic roadmap for stronger, more consistent outreach.

We create communications plans that help nonprofits prioritize their efforts, clarify their audiences, align their messaging, and build systems that are actually manageable. Rather than handing you a generic template, we develop plans grounded in your goals, capacity, and real-world constraints.

These can include campaign strategy, core messaging, content priorities, channel recommendations, timelines, and implementation guidance.

Best for: organizations that need a clearer direction, stronger structure, or a more intentional communications strategy.

Redline Reviews

Expert feedback on the materials that matter most.

Sometimes you do not need a full project. You just need a sharp, experienced communications professional to review what you already have and tell you how to make it better. Our redline reviews provide detailed feedback on drafts and existing materials such as grant proposals, websites, brochures, appeals, reports, press materials, and more.

We look at clarity, strategy, messaging, tone, structure, and audience alignment, then provide concrete suggestions you can use right away.

Best for: teams that already have a draft but want stronger messaging, clearer structure, or a more polished final product.

Office Hours

Flexible access to expert support when you need it.

Office hours (consultation by the hour) give your team dedicated time with a communications strategist, grant consultant, or messaging expert to work through challenges, get feedback, brainstorm ideas, or make progress on priority tasks. This is a great fit for organizations that need ongoing support but are not ready for a larger retainer or project.

Think of it as practical, high-value guidance without the long-term commitment.

Best for: lean teams that need a trusted sounding board, occasional strategy support, or help navigating communications decisions in real time.

Projects

Our project services are for nonprofits that need tangible, high-quality deliverables created with strategy, storytelling, and audience connection in mind. We bring together the right mix of communications strategists, grant writers, storytellers, copywriters, designers, photographers, videographers, and web professionals depending on the scope of your project.

Story Banking

Capture the stories your organization needs before you need them.

Story Banking is one of our most valuable custom services for nonprofits that know they have meaningful impact but struggle to gather stories in a usable, organized way. We help you identify potential storytellers, collect promising leads, conduct interviews, and transform those conversations into a bank of story snippets, quotes, themes, and narrative assets your team can use across appeals, grant proposals, websites, newsletters, annual reports, social media, and more.

Instead of scrambling for stories every time you need one, you’ll have a thoughtful library of mission-centered content ready to go.

Best for: organizations with strong impact but no consistent system for capturing and using stories.

Websites and Microsites

Digital spaces that tell your story clearly and move people to action.

Your website should do more than exist. It should help people understand who you are, why your work matters, and what they should do next. We create websites and microsites that are strategic, audience-aware, and grounded in strong messaging.

This may include website copy, site structure, messaging development, content planning, design collaboration, and launch support. Microsites are also a great option for special campaigns, events, fundraising initiatives, or major storytelling projects that need a focused online presence.

Best for: organizations with outdated websites, unclear messaging, or campaign-specific needs.

Annual and Impact Reports

Reports people actually want to read.

We create annual reports and impact reports that go beyond compliance or obligation. These pieces are designed to clarify your impact, honor your community, and help donors, funders, and stakeholders understand why your work matters.

Depending on your needs, we can support content strategy, interviews, data review, copywriting, editing, design direction, photography coordination, and final production. Whether you need something simple and polished or something more narrative and custom, we help make sure the final product feels both credible and compelling.

Best for: organizations that need to demonstrate results, strengthen donor trust, and communicate impact with greater clarity and heart.

Graphic Design

Custom visual materials that support your message and strengthen your brand.

We offer custom design support for nonprofits that need professional, mission-aligned materials without the overhead of a full in-house creative team. This can include brochures, one-pagers, sponsorship packets, event materials, fundraising collateral, social graphics, slide decks, reports, and other communications assets.

Our design work is rooted in strategy, not decoration. We make sure materials are not only attractive, but also clear, purposeful, and aligned with how your organization wants to be understood.

Best for: organizations that need polished visual materials that communicate clearly and reflect the quality of their work.

Who We Bring to the Table

Let It Shine is built to scale the right expertise to the right project.

Depending on your needs, your engagement may include support from communications strategists, grant writers, storytellers, copywriters, videographers, photographers, graphic designers, and web designers. We assemble the right mix of talent for each scope so you get thoughtful, specialized support without paying for more than you need.

That means you get the flexibility of a collaborative team and the personalized care of a trusted partner.

Let’s Work Together.

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Visibility Readiness Review

This signature service helps nonprofits identify what is working, what is missing, and what may be keeping them from connecting with donors, partners, funders, volunteers, or the community.