Your nonprofit’s fullstack strategic creative partner.
20+ years of communications and development expertise helping environmental and social justice nonprofits secure funding, engage stakeholders, and amplify their missions.
My interdisciplinary background in art, writing, tech, systems, science, public affairs and development brings innovation and creativity to nonprofit teams.
Strategic Services
Communications Strategy
Comprehensive communications planning that maps your objectives, audience, channels, and key messages—resulting in actionable roadmaps you can implement with confidence.
Grantwriting & Development
I’ve secured millions from Federal, state, local and private funders, and served as a USDA grant reviewer. I write proposals that demonstrate impact through scientific frameworks.
Campaign Development
End-to-end campaign design from strategy through execution—coordinating messaging, design, and distribution for maximum audience impact.
Websites, Digital & AI
Wordpress-to-Squarespace modernizations following a proven process. Interactive, engaging reports. Guidance on how to leverage AI for your organization.
Design for Impact
Professional collateral that elevates your credibility — annual reports, campaign materials, infographics, newsletters, and brand systems that make your mission memorable.
Brand Creative
Custom artwork, logo design, infographics, social graphics, and visual storytelling that brings your mission to life and inspires action.
Emergency Capacity
Need a deliverable in 3 business days or less? Get in touch to book your short-turnaround grant application or communication.
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STOP reacting to deadlines and START driving your mission. This package is the first step to convert your high-level 2026 vision into a tactical, high-impact blueprint. We’ll spend two hours reverse-engineering your goals to ensure your messaging, collateral, and channels are aligned for growth.
Vision-to-Action Consultation: A 2-hour deep dive to map your 2026 sub-objectives.
The "Plan-on-a-Page": A streamlined strategy for every objective, including key messages, audience growth plans, channels and milestones.
2026 Communications Calendar: A systematic 12-month schedule to ensure your team hits every target.
Collateral Roadmap: A custom guide to the specific design assets you'll need to achieve your vision.
Investment: $1,250. (Existing clients: Enjoy a 10% loyalty discount)
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What Partners Say…
"We have worked with Sarah for over three years, and her work is consistently creative, accurate and timely. She is a good listener and brings new ideas to the table. Sarah is a pleasure to work with and we look forward to collaborating for many more years to come.”
- Environmental Advocates NY
“Sarah Rice has been working with MARSB through most of 2025. Her efforts on our behalf have been outstanding. She has relentlessly pushed our agenda, offered sound advice and guidance and has proven to be invaluable to our efforts to expand our messaging and secure additional support for our programs.”
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank
"Sarah is wonderful to work with — so communicative, responsive, and talented. She is open and eager to get started on any project and takes direction well. We greatly appreciate all of Sarah’s help for our nonprofit!”
- Reinvent Albany
"Reliable, insightful, and creative—Sarah has been a fantastic design partner in helping us create beautiful materials that are growing our organization's visibility and audience engagement, essential to strengthening our mission and advancing our conservation work."
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy
My background
I began my career in the environmental and agricultural nonprofit sector doing program communications — as the token millennial digital expert working on senior government agency and nonprofit teams at the dawn of social media. In the 2000’s, I worked in the NYS Attorney General’s Environmental Protection Bureau, the NYS Senate, for NYS Dept. of Agriculture and Markets, and for statewide and local nonprofits. Learn more on LinkedIn.
Now, I have two decades of experience spanning from the dawn of social media to the age of AI—and a track record of helping organizations grow along with the times to achieve their wildest dreams. I’ve managed teams, and I’ve excelled at start-up strategy, fundraising, grant writing, public relations, sales, marketing and website design—developing graphic and written content, print and digital, around all of it.
I focus my business on helping nonprofits and social entrepreneurs look their best — so they can maximize the visibility of their work, grow the impact of their communications, and engage audiences without sinking resources into a full-time communications staffer.
From my home office in Rensselaerville, New York — in Upstate New York — I provide specialist, no-overhead communications consulting to nonprofits throughout the United States.
If you’d like to talk about working together, please send me an email. I look forward to hearing from you!
Download a printable PDF of my resume here.