The Branding and Creative Agency for Growing Nonprofits
We partner with nonprofits ready to scale, giving you a dedicated creative team to build the brand, website, and campaigns you need to raise more money and grow your impact.
Three Ways to Work Together
We offer three partnership models depending on where your organization is and what you need right now. Book a call and we'll help you figure out which path makes the most sense for your situation.
Option 1: Start with Strategy
Audit & Growth Roadmap starting at $10,000
Get complete clarity on what your organization needs before committing to any major project. We'll immerse ourselves in your organization, audit your brand and digital presence, and deliver a comprehensive 12-month roadmap showing you exactly what to prioritize.
Best for:
Organizations exploring major changes but not sure where to start, or those who want strategic clarity before investing in execution.
You can take the roadmap and implement it with your team or other partners, or you can hire us to execute it with you.
Timeline:
4 weeks from kickoff to delivery
Option 2: Focused Project
Starting at $35k
Tackle a specific priority right now. Whether it's a complete brand refresh, website redesign, or comprehensive campaign, we'll deliver a focused project over 3-4 months with clear deliverables and timeline.
Best for:
Organizations with a clear, specific need and budget ready to execute now.
Timeline:
3-4 months, depending on scope
Option 3: Ongoing Partnership
Starting at $15k/mo
Work with a dedicated creative team that brings deep expertise, pattern recognition across dozens of nonprofits, and fresh outside perspective you can't get from internal staff.
Best for:
Organizations that are scaling quickly and need consistent creative support to keep up with their ambition.
Timeline & Commitment:
All partnerships start with a 3-month pilot to prove we can deliver value. After that, we convert to month-to-month.
Elkhorn Slough Foundation just completed its first-ever capital campaign raising more than $13 million. Cosmic was instrumental in this success.
Why Growing Nonprofits Struggle to Meet Their Mission's Ambition
Your Brand Feels Generic
When you've pieced together your brand, website, and content over time with different freelancers and vendors, everything feels disconnected. Donors can't quickly understand who you are or why you matter. Your mission deserves better than a forgettable brand.
Your Team Is Doing Too Many Jobs
Your Communications Director is also your social media manager, your email marketer, your website editor, and your designer. The reality is, most growing nonprofits can't afford the 5+ person creative team that established organizations like charity:water have built. Your team can't do it all.
You Can't Connect Marketing to Results
You've invested in websites, campaigns, and content, but without a cohesive strategy, you can't tell what's working and what's not. Every investment feels like a leap of faith instead of a strategic bet on growth.
What you Actually Need
You need a creative team that understands nonprofits and can deliver the strategic thinking and design quality that moves the needle. That's what we do.
We've spent 15 years partnering with growing nonprofits, helping them build the brand and communications infrastructure they need to compete for attention and support. Whether you need strategic clarity, a focused project, or ongoing creative partnership, we'll help you find the right path.
A Brand That Truly Represents Your Mission
We help you clarify your message and express your impact in a way that donors, partners, and community members immediately understand. No more explaining what you do in five different ways.
A Website That Drives Action
Your website should be your hardest-working fundraising and communications tool—not just a digital brochure. We build sites that drive email signups, increase donations, and tell your story compellingly.
Campaigns That Get Results
From strategy through creative execution, we design and produce the emails, social content, videos, and collateral you need to move people from interested to invested.
Not Sure Which Partnership Fits?
Most organizations start with the Audit & Growth Roadmap to get strategic clarity before committing to larger investments. It's the lowest-risk way to work with us and gives you a clear plan regardless of what you do next.
If you have a specific, urgent need like a website that needs to launch for a campaign, a focused project might make more sense.
If you're ready to scale and need consistent creative support to build momentum quarter after quarter, the Growth Partnership could be the right fit.
Book a call and we'll help you figure it out based on your situation.
FAQ's
What if we already have someone doing communications?
Perfect. We're not here to replace your team, we're here to make them more effective. Think of us as the senior creative layer above your coordinator or manager. We provide the strategy, design, and production capacity that lets your staff focus on execution and relationship-building instead of trying to do everything.
How long do projects and partnerships typically last?
Projects: 3-4 months with clear deliverables and timeline.
Partnerships: All partnerships start with a 3-month pilot to prove we can deliver value. After that, we convert to month-to-month. We don't believe in locking you into long contracts—we'd rather earn our place on your team every month.
How do you manage priorities in an ongoing partnership?
Your roadmap guides everything. We plan work quarterly based on what matters most right now. If priorities shift, we adjust during our quarterly planning sessions. You'll always know what we're working on and why.
Can we start with a project and convert to a partnership later?
Absolutely. About a third of our project clients convert to ongoing partnerships after seeing the results. The project is a great way to test how we work together before committing to a longer-term relationship.
What kind of results can I expect?
Every nonprofit is different, but you should expect to see both tangible and intangible results. Tangible: more website traffic, better email open rates, increased donations from specific campaigns. Intangible: stronger team confidence, clearer positioning, less time spent explaining what you do.
What to expect:
- We'll learn about your organization and recommend the right path forward
- If it's a fit, we'll outline next steps
- If not, we'll recommend other partners who might be a better match
- Just an honest conversation about what you need.
You'll hear from us within 24 hours to schedule your call.