Our Clients

From education and the arts to environmental and social causes, nonprofit organizations partner with Mission Minded to bring their inspiring visions to life.

Featured Projects

California ChangeLawyers

California ChangeLawyers

We co-created a bold new name, indeed a new word – California ChangeLawyers  – breaking new ground and positioning them as social justice leaders.

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JVS

JVS

Simple site architecture, inclusive easy-to-understand language, and a dynamic new visual identity and graphics guide users to embrace a new future for themselves.

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Raise the Future

Raise the Future

By focusing on their “why”, and keeping their mission and vision at the forefront of these discussions, we guided them to realize that this wasn’t about incremental steps forward, it…

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Clients By Sector

Animal Welfare

  • Best Friends Animal Society
  • Guide Dogs for the Blind
  • Pets Unlimited

Capacity Building

  • Association of Fundraising Professionals
  • Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
  • Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership
  • Colorado Nonprofit Association
  • Community Arts Stabilization Trust
  • Community Initiatives
  • Harder + Company
  • Informing Change
  • Make the Road New York
  • O2 Initiatives
  • Results for America
  • Social Policy Research Associates
  • The Leadership Investment
  • Tides
  • Tides Canada
  • Voqal
  • ZeroDivide

Cause-Focused Funds

  • Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
  • Denver Public Schools Foundation
  • Green Beret Foundation
  • Kempe Foundation
  • Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
  • Making Waves Foundation
  • NALP Foundation
  • REI Cooperative Action Fund
  • Sierra Club Foundation
  • The Leakey Foundation

Children and Youth

  • Raise the Future
  • Alfond Youth & Community Center
  • Alternatives in Action
  • Bay Area Disc Association
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver
  • Building Bridges
  • CASA of San Mateo County
  • Children of Shelters
  • Children’s Council of San Francisco
  • Children’s Home Society of California
  • EPACENTER Arts
  • First 5 Alameda County
  • First 5 Humboldt
  • Healthier Kids Foundation
  • Huckleberry Youth Center
  • Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco
  • Judi’s House
  • Kempe Foundation
  • New Ways to Work
  • Savio
  • The Grable Foundation
  • Transitional Age Youth Initiative
  • Wu Yee Children’s Services
  • Youth Outside

Community and Social Services

  • Raise the Future
  • We Don’t Waste
  • Aldea Children & Family Services
  • American Red Cross
  • Bakersfield Homeless Center
  • Bay Area Community Services
  • Berkeley Food and Housing Project
  • Bread & Roses
  • Canal Alliance
  • Children’s Home Society of California
  • Green Beret Foundation
  • Guide Dogs for the Blind
  • Housing Trust Silicon Valley
  • Ibis Reproductive Health
  • Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program (IVROP)
  • Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco
  • Make the Road New York
  • Mile High United Way
  • Prospera
  • Puente
  • Richmond District Neighborhood Association
  • SAVE: Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments
  • St. Anthony’s Foundation
  • St. Vincent de Paul Society, San Francisco
  • Sunny Hills Services
  • The Practice Space
  • The Shanti Project
  • Uplift Family Services
  • World Affairs Council
  • Wu Yee Children’s Services
  • YMCA of San Francisco

Community Foundations

  • The San Francisco Foundation
  • Community Foundation Sonoma County
  • East Bay Community Foundation
  • Episcopal Charities
  • Napa Valley Community Foundation
  • Santa Barbara Foundation
  • Seattle Foundation
  • Tides
  • Tides Canada
  • Vesper Society
  • Women’s Funding Network

Community Investment and Microfinance

  • Enterprise Community Partners
  • Hebrew Free Loan
  • Mission Federal Credit Union
  • Opportunity Fund
  • Pacific Community Ventures
  • Piton Foundation / Gary Community Ventures
  • Renewal Partners
  • RSF Social Finance
  • Tides

Corporate Foundations

  • Blue Shield of California Foundation
  • Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation
  • Levi Strauss Foundation
  • REI Cooperative Action Fund

Education

  • The Rhodes Trust
  • 10,000 Degrees
  • AltaSea
  • Aspire
  • Brooklyn STEAM Center
  • California Competes
  • Challenge Success
  • CityWorks DC
  • Collaborative for High Performance Schools
  • College Futures Foundation
  • CollegeSpring
  • Colorado “I Have A Dream” Foundation
  • Colorado Charter School Institute
  • connectEd – The California Center for College and Career
  • Denver Public Schools Foundation
  • Education Commission of the States
  • Education Outside
  • Edutopia—The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • Get Smart Schools
  • Global Glimpse
  • HERE to HERE
  • Jobs for the Future (JFF)
  • Khan Academy
  • Los Angeles Unified School District
  • Making Waves Foundation
  • National Association of Independent Schools
  • National Association of Independent Schools
  • National Equity Project
  • One Schoolhouse
  • PEBC Teacher Residency
  • Promise Scholars
  • Results for America
  • Santa Clara County Office of Education
  • Summer Search
  • The Boettcher Foundation
  • The City Fund
  • The Enrollment Management Association
  • Thrive Scholars
  • WestEd—Carnegie Math Pathways
  • WestEd—STEM

Environment and Agriculture

  • Marin Agricultural Land Trust
  • We Don’t Waste
  • Adamah
  • AltaSea
  • American Rivers
  • Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment
  • Baykeeper
  • California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
  • California State Parks Foundation
  • Center for Environmental Health
  • Change Chemistry
  • Community Action Works
  • Energy Outreach Colorado
  • Give Green Canada
  • Global Greengrants Fund
  • Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
  • OceanSpaces
  • Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association
  • Peninsula Open Space Trust
  • REI Cooperative Action Fund
  • Roots of Change
  • Save the Redwoods League
  • Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District
  • Sonoma Land Trust
  • Sustainable Conservation
  • The Recycling Partnership
  • Western Resource Advocates

Health and Healthcare

  • Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment
  • Boarding for Breast Cancer
  • Center for Care Innovations
  • Center for Health Progress
  • Center for Youth Wellness
  • Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS
  • Colorado Health Foundation
  • Diabetes Hands Foundation
  • Donor Network West
  • Face to Face
  • Family Voices Colorado
  • Global Health Group at University of California San Francisco
  • Grand View Health
  • Headwaters Foundation
  • Healthier Kids Foundation
  • Ibis Reproductive Health
  • Jefferson Center for Mental Health
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Laguna Honda Hospital Foundation
  • LiveWell Colorado
  • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
  • Marin Community Clinic
  • National Network for Oral Health Access
  • Northwest Colorado Health
  • Nurse-Family Partnership
  • OLE Health
  • Petaluma Health Center
  • Rush Medical Center Education and Career Hub
  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation
  • Santa Rosa Community Health
  • Share Our Selves
  • Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation
  • The Shanti Project
  • University of California San Francisco Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Housing and Jobs

  • JVS (Jewish Vocational Service)
  • Abode Services
  • Bakersfield Homeless Center
  • Berkeley Food and Housing Project
  • Brilliant Corners
  • Brooklyn STEAM Center
  • CCH
  • CityWorks DC
  • Eden Housing
  • Enterprise Community Partners
  • First Community Housing
  • Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco
  • HERE to HERE
  • HOPE SF
  • Housing Colorado
  • Housing Trust Silicon Valley
  • Jobs for the Future (JFF)
  • Juma Ventures
  • Pacific Community Ventures
  • REDF
  • Rush Medical Center Education and Career Hub
  • SFMade
  • Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

Jewish Culture and Education

  • JVS (Jewish Vocational Service)
  • Adamah
  • Harold Grinspoon Foundation
  • Hebrew Free Loan
  • Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion
  • Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco
  • Jewish LearningWorks
  • Jim Joseph Foundation
  • Judaism Your Way
  • San Diego Jewish Academy
  • Selfhelp Community Services
  • Sinai Akiba Academy (Los Angeles, CA)
  • The Brandeis School of San Francisco
  • The Forward
  • UpStart

LGBTQ+

  • COLAGE
  • Los Angeles LGBT Center
  • Out & Equal Workplace Advocates
  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation

Media

  • ActiveVoice
  • Center for Investigative Reporting
  • KQED Public Media
  • National Alliance for Media Art and Culture
  • The Forward
  • University of California Press

Membership Organizations

  • American Association of Law Libraries
  • California Association of Nonprofits
  • National Association for Law Placement
  • Pension Real Estate Association
  • San Francisco Village
  • The Enrollment Management Association
  • Village Movement California

Museums and Visual Arts

  • Bay Area Discovery Museum
  • Children’s Museum of Denver
  • Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
  • Denver Art Museum
  • EPACENTER Arts
  • Foothills Art Center
  • Headlands Center for the Arts
  • Lindsay Wildlife Museum
  • Norman Lear’s Declaration of Independence Road Trip
  • Oakland Museum of California
  • San Francisco Maritime National Park

Older Adult Services

  • Bay Area Community Services
  • CCH
  • Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco
  • San Francisco Village
  • Selfhelp Community Services
  • Village Movement California
  • Whistlestop

Performing Arts

  • American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)
  • California Symphony
  • Curious Theater
  • Denver Center for the Performing Arts
  • Los Angeles Music Center
  • Los Angeles Unified School District
  • Magic Theater
  • Performing Arts Workshop
  • San Francisco Ballet
  • San Francisco Opera
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • Shotgun Players

Private and Family Foundations

  • The Rhodes Trust
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation
  • Buell Foundation
  • Gates Family Foundation
  • JF Maddox Foundation
  • John & Marcia Goldman Foundation
  • Kempe Foundation
  • Kenneth Rainin Foundation
  • Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
  • Pace Able Foundation
  • Pinpoint Foundation
  • Piton Foundation / Gary Community Ventures
  • Pritzker Traubert Foundation
  • Skoll Foundation, Social Edge
  • The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation
  • The Boettcher Foundation
  • The City Fund
  • The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
  • The Grable Foundation
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  • Walter & Elise Haas Fund

Social Justice and Legal Advocacy

  • California ChangeLawyers
  • Evident Change
  • Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment
  • Building Bridges
  • California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
  • Canal Alliance
  • Center for Health Progress
  • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
  • Forward Together
  • HerJustice
  • Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy
  • Ibis Reproductive Health
  • Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program (IVROP)
  • Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
  • Make the Road New York
  • NALP Foundation
  • NARAL Pro-Choice California
  • National Federation of the Blind
  • OneJustice
  • Pacific Community Ventures
  • Pars Equality Center
  • Puente
  • University of California Berkeley, Human Rights Center

Social Responsibility and Entrepeneurship

  • Business for Social Responsibility
  • Net Impact
  • REI Cooperative Action Fund
  • Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund
  • Social Venture Network
  • Voqal

Technology and Innovation

  • AltaSea
  • B612 Foundation
  • Benetech
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Seasteading Institute

Training and Speaking Engagements

  • American Marketing Association
  • Asia Foundation
  • Association of California Symphony Orchestras
  • Association of Children’s Museums
  • Association of Fundraising Professionals
  • Bay Area Directors of Admissions
  • California Advancement Partnerships for Schools
  • California Association of Independent Schools
  • California Association of Nonprofits
  • Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership
  • Colorado Nonprofit Association
  • CompassPoint
  • County of Santa Clara, Division of Equity and Social Justice
  • Craigslist Foundation
  • Development Executives Roundtable
  • Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
  • Finalsite University
  • Foundation Center San Francisco
  • Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System–University of Denver
  • Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership
  • Marin Community Foundation
  • Napa Valley Coalition of Nonprofits
  • National Association of Independent Schools
  • National College Access Network
  • National Conference of Bar Foundation
  • Nonprofit Cultivation Center
  • Nonprofit Learning Lab
  • Northern California Nonprofits
  • NTEN
  • Opera America
  • Paradigm Healthcare
  • Pepperwood Preserve
  • Red Rocks Community College
  • Regis University
  • San Francisco State University
  • The Communications Network
  • University of California Santa Cruz
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
  • University of San Francisco School of Business
  • Volunteer Center of Sonoma County
  • Western Boarding School Association
  • Young Nonprofit Professional Network
  • Carolina Friends School (Durham, NC)
  • Chatham Hall (Chatham, VA)
  • Curtis School (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Flint Hill School (Oaktown, VA)
  • Georgetown Preparatory School (North Bethesda, MD)
  • Marin Country Day School (Corte Madera, CA)
  • Severn School (Severna Park, Maryland)
  • Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School (Saint Louis, MO)
  • Army and Navy Academy (Carlsbad, CA)
  • Aspen Country Day School (Aspen, CO)
  • Aurora School (Oakland, CA)
  • Bentley School (Oakland, CA)
  • Berkwood Hedge School (Berkeley, CA)
  • Boulder Country Day School (Boulder, CO)
  • Branson School (Ross, CA)
  • Brookwood School (Manchester, MA)
  • Carondelet High School (Concord, CA)
  • Castilleja School (Palo Alto, CA)
  • Cathedral School for Boys (San Francisco, CA)
  • Chandler School (Pasadena, CA)
  • Churchill School and Center (New York, NY)
  • Columbus School for Girls (Columbus, OH)
  • Crane County Day School (Santa Barbara, CA)
  • Crystal Springs Uplands School (Palo Alto, CA)
  • Drew School (San Francisco, CA)
  • Echo Horizon School (Culver City, CA)
  • Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
  • Epiphany School (Seattle, WA)
  • Flintridge Preparatory School (La Cañada Flintridge, CA)
  • Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy (La Cañada Flintridge, CA)
  • French American International School and International High School (San Francisco, CA)
  • Friends Academy (Locust Valley, NY)
  • Friends School of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
  • Hackley School (Tarrytown, NY)
  • Holy Trinity High School (Chicago, IL)
  • Julia Morgan School for Girls (Oakland, CA)
  • King School (Stamford, CT)
  • La Scuola International School (San Francisco, CA)
  • Laguna Blanca School (Santa Barbara, CA)
  • Lycée Français La Pérouse (San Francisco, CA)
  • Marin Academy (San Rafael, CA)
  • Marin Horizon School (Mill Valley, CA)
  • Marin Montessori School (Corte Madera, CA)
  • Marin Primary & Middle School (Larkspur, CA)
  • Marlborough School (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Menlo School (Atherton, CA)
  • Mount Tamalpais School (Mill Valley, CA)
  • New Garden Friends School (Greensboro, NC)
  • New School of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
  • North Country School (Lake Placid, NY)
  • Nysmith School for the Gifted (Herndon, VA)
  • Prospect Sierra School (El Cerrito, CA)
  • PS1 Pluralistic School One (Santa Monica, CA)
  • Roland Park Country School (Baltimore, MD)
  • Rolling Hills Prep and Renaissance Schools (San Pedro, CA)
  • Rowland Hall (Salt Lake City, UT)
  • Saint Mark’s School (Altadena, CA)
  • San Diego Jewish Academy (San Diego, CA)
  • San Domenico School (San Anselmo, CA)
  • San Francisco Day School (San Francisco, CA)
  • San Francisco University High School (San Francisco, CA)
  • San Francisco Waldorf High School (San Francisco, CA)
  • Santa Cruz Waldorf School (Santa Cruz, CA)
  • Sinai Akiba Academy (Los Angeles, CA)
  • St. Mary’s School (Aliso Viejo, CA)
  • St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School (San Mateo, CA)
  • Sterne School (San Francisco, CA)
  • Taipei American School (Taipei City, Taiwan)
  • The Agnes Irwin School (Rosemont, PA)
  • The Athenian School (Danville, CA)
  • The Brandeis School of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
  • The Buckley School (Sherman Oaks, CA)
  • The Bush School (Seattle, WA)
  • The Oxbow School (Napa, CA)
  • Urban School of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
  • Ventana School (Los Altos, CA)
  • Vistamar School (El Segundo, CA)
  • Stanford Humanities Center
  • The Rhodes Trust
  • University of British Columbia
  • Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University
  • Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion
  • Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System–University of Denver
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Skyline College
  • Stanford University Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
  • UC Berkeley Division of Equity and Inclusion
  • University of California Berkeley, Human Rights Center
  • University of California Berkeley, Townsend Center for the Humanities
  • University of California Hastings College of the Law
  • University of California San Francisco Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology
  • University of California San Francisco, Library & Center for Knowledge Management
  • Wesleyan University
  • Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Mission Minded is infectiously passionate and incredibly smart. We are delighted with our new brand, and our overall communications moved up several notches.

LaShawn Route Chatmon, as Executive Director,
National Equity Project

I had very, very high expectations, and you exceeded them. There’s nothing about this I don’t like. From the words to the pictures, it perfectly conveys our brand, and it’s amazing. Wow, just wow.

Major General Arthur Bartell, as President,
Army & Navy Academy

Needless to say, we are thrilled with our new logo and could not have done it without all of you!

Mike Yankovich, as President & CEO,
Children’s Museum of Denver

Mission Minded has been nothing short of extraordinary in developing a narrative with supportive creative for our campaign.

Patrick Coyle, as Director of Marketing & Communications,
Georgetown Preparatory School

In the past I’ve hired a writer and a separate designer to create my capital campaign brochure. I’m so glad I hired Mission Minded for everything because you’re helping us create something so much more powerful.

Rehana Abbas, as Director of Philanthropy,
Oakland Museum of California

Every single penny that we have spent with Mission Minded has been doubly worth its value. It is astoundingly good work.

Travis Brownley, as Head of School,
Marin Academy

Mission Minded was able to succeed in a multi-cultural environment because they came from a place of not presenting themselves as teachers, but as learners. They created a space where everyone was able to speak and be heard.

Omar Carrera, as CEO,
Canal Alliance