How to Get Gender Right in Your School’s Brand and Messages
Many independent schools are inadvertently reinforcing the gender stereotypes they intend to break. Three actions your school can take to make its brand and messaging genuinely inclusive.
Many independent schools are inadvertently reinforcing the gender stereotypes they intend to break. Three actions your school can take to make its brand and messaging genuinely inclusive.
Resonant messages and a strong visual identity matter — but how do your audiences actually feel when they encounter your organization? Here’s how to design brand experiences that deepen connection and build loyalty.
The individual-transformation story is a nonprofit staple — but it often reinforces a narrative of weakness. Metaphor offers a more honest, more resonant way to communicate your organization’s impact.
Your most passionate donors, board members, and volunteers are already telling your story. Here’s how to give them the tools to do it better — and turn their enthusiasm into a real brand asset.
A strong brand helps your nonprofit attract support — but it also means being thoughtful about whose support you accept. Here’s how to evaluate funding partnerships before they create a values conflict.
Visual identity isn’t accidental — it’s the deliberate sum of color, type, imagery, and form that tells your brand’s story before a single word is read. Here’s why it matters and how to get it right.
Better communications doesn’t always mean a full brand overhaul. These six habits — most of which you already know — are worth committing to today.
After years of working with mission-driven organizations, we’ve heard a consistent theme: leaders wish they’d invested in their brand sooner. Here’s the advice we hear most — and why it still holds.
A seal looks backward; a logo looks forward. If your organization’s historical seal is standing in for a visual identity, here’s how to make the case for change — even when the seal carries real emotional weight.