Your nonprofit’s freelance communications & development pro.
I’m a communications and development pro with 20 years experience, a designer, and an artist.
My business is helping nonprofits maximize their communications and amplify their impact.
Design for Do-Gooders
Making your good work look its best is essential with well designed, professional collateral. I do logos, websites, annual reports, campaigns, newsletters, direct mail, slide decks, infographics and custom art. If we can dream it up, I can make it happen.
Communications Strategy
I define what my clients’ unique success looks like and map their audience — then reverse engineer the smaller objectives, milestones, collateral and channels it will take to meet that goal. The result is a detailed, actionable plan you can hold in your hand.
Grantwriting
Beginning with the EPA grant that funded my MS thesis in NYS Community Conservation Assistance, I’ve authored successful applications to Federal, state, local and private funders awarding millions of dollars. I have also served as a USDA grant reviewer.
"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 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, and a track record of helping organizations grow and 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, I provide specialist, no-overhead communications support 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.
What can I create for you? A lot.
Print & Digital Layouts
Annual reports, financial reports, one-pagers, brochures, rack cards, slide decks, newsletters and more.
Comms Strategy
Define your audience and the channels on which you’ll best engage, develop an actionable plan, and pen in an editorial calendar to achieve your goals.
Grantwriting
I’ve written millions in winning proposals. My competitive advantage is writing an evaluation plan that demonstrates impact through a scientific framework.
Fundraising Collateral
Coordinated campaign design, social graphics, direct mail and reply devices, gala and event promotion, and more.
Brand Creative
Custom campaign artwork, logo design, brand books, infographics, social cards, coloring sheets and more.
Website Design
Specializing in Squarespace websites (like this one), and Wordpress-to-Squarespace migrations that require buy-in from a variety of stakeholders.
Need freelance help?
Email me for a free introductory 1/2 hour Zoom consultation and cost estimate.