Community foundations collectively oversee $54.9 billion in donor-advised funds. Right now, donors are watching the news and wondering how to help. Your grantees are scrambling. Your community needs a strategic voice.
This playbook gives you the communications frameworks to lead.
What’s Inside:
4 Critical Communications Shifts — Move from grantmaker to community leader, from annual reporting to real-time storytelling.
7 Donor Messaging Frameworks — Ready-to-use language for DAF holders, corporate partners, board members, and the community.
Grantee Communications Toolkit — Help your grantees shift from emergency appeals to strategic positioning — multiplying every grant dollar.
Pooled Fund Launch Playbook — Step-by-step guide with real examples from Alaska, Washington DC, and San Diego.
12-Month Editorial Calendar — Plan your messaging cadence from crisis response through long-term positioning.
Self-Assessment — 12 questions to identify your foundation’s highest-leverage communications opportunities.
I’m Sarah Avery Rice, founder of Bleeding Heart Creative. For 20+ years, I’ve helped environmental and social justice nonprofits secure funding, build audiences, and amplify their missions. I work with community foundations because local philanthropy is the most resilient infrastructure a community can build.
Community foundations collectively oversee $54.9 billion in donor-advised funds. Right now, donors are watching the news and wondering how to help. Your grantees are scrambling. Your community needs a strategic voice.
This playbook gives you the communications frameworks to lead.
What’s Inside:
4 Critical Communications Shifts — Move from grantmaker to community leader, from annual reporting to real-time storytelling.
7 Donor Messaging Frameworks — Ready-to-use language for DAF holders, corporate partners, board members, and the community.
Grantee Communications Toolkit — Help your grantees shift from emergency appeals to strategic positioning — multiplying every grant dollar.
Pooled Fund Launch Playbook — Step-by-step guide with real examples from Alaska, Washington DC, and San Diego.
12-Month Editorial Calendar — Plan your messaging cadence from crisis response through long-term positioning.
Self-Assessment — 12 questions to identify your foundation’s highest-leverage communications opportunities.
I’m Sarah Avery Rice, founder of Bleeding Heart Creative. For 20+ years, I’ve helped environmental and social justice nonprofits secure funding, build audiences, and amplify their missions. I work with community foundations because local philanthropy is the most resilient infrastructure a community can build.
