About Bold Bison
Expanding Capacity in the Sector
Bold Bison Communications & Consulting provides forward-thinking communications solutions, engaging strategy and facilitation services, and inspiring workshops and trainings for nonprofits, particularly in the conservation, climate, and local food movements, as well as the arts and cultural institutions.
Our Services
Connecting Communications & Strategy
We believe communications requires more than just creative thinking about how to get the word out. At a fundamental level, it requires strategic thinking about the work of your organization.
Understanding the Space
Bold Bison unites our experience in nonprofit communications and strategy with our perspective on the sector to help you identify the opportunities for your organization and articulate your work in the space.
Facilitation and Trainings
Our team has a national reputation for developing impactful and thought-provoking workshops. These trainings can help you build new skills, work more efficiently, or think about your work in a new way.
Capacity Building Support
Through tailored and actionable planning, strategy sessions, and skill-building workshops and trainings, we make sure you’re fully prepared, confident, and energized to activate our recommendations.
Direct Marketing Services
When extra capacity is needed, Bold Bison offers a variety of direct support services including video and media production, website and strategic message development, and email and social media marketing.
Our Thinking
Bold Bison brings our deep experience in nonprofits and rich sector knowledge to help transform the way organizations think and communicate about their work.
Telling a 10-Year Story
Bold Bison partnered with Land Trust Alliance to produce the impact report for the Oregon Advancing Conservation Excellence program, a decade-long initiative to expand the capacity of the state’s land trust community.
A Post-Pandemic Strategic Plan
NWI Food Council engaged Bold Bison to develop a 2023-2026 strategic plan that steers the organization as they work to build a stronger and more sustainable local food system in the wake of the pandemic.
Celebrating Global Impact
As part of our ongoing engagement with Kinship Conservation Fellows, Bold Bison produced Kinship Conservation Commons to celebrate the impact of the program’s alumni network.
Trusted Expertise
Our team brings nearly three decades of combined experience in nonprofit communications, marketing, and fundraising, with expertise in supporting conservation and climate advocacy, local food movements, and arts & cultural organizations.
Our Approach
A Common Sense Approach to Communications
We bring a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to thinking about audiences, the best ways to reach them, and most importantly, the strategies that are reasonable and manageable for the talent and capacity within your organization.
Meeting You Where You’re At
With nearly 30 years of shared experience in non-profit communications, we can firmly say we’ve been there. From fundraisers to volunteer recruitment, Congressional advocacy to social media strategy, public-private partnerships, coalitions, and everything in between, we appreciate your unique challenges and lend our expertise to every project.
Boosting Confidence, Clarity, and Capacity
Through the collaborative and facilitated process we bring to each project, we will help you see things from a fresh perspective, think deeply about how to put the pieces together in a different way, and provide the tools, trainings, and tips to lift confidence and capacity within your organization.
Helping Move the Sector Forward
Our years in the sector have not only provided rich first hand experience in nonprofit communications and strategy, but also shaped our perspective on the work of these movements. We will help you identify, bolster, and lean into those programs and outreach strategies that can genuinely move the work of the sector forward while serving as a national model for partners.
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