We help mission-driven organizations translate complex impact into clear language that gets people to act. Funders, partners, government programs, boards. Either they can't quickly see why your work matters to them, or they never hear about you at all. Whichever it is, our job is to make sure you're seen.
"Yoanne took the time to understand our mission and translated more than six years of impact into a website that clearly communicates who we are, what we do, and how people can get involved. Since launching, we've seen increased site traffic and engagement."
J'reyesha Brannon, P.E.Treasurer, NSBE Portland Professionals
Most organizations call when something is coming. A grant deadline. The fall board meeting. A campaign about to launch. That is usually when you have rewritten it five times, deleted most of it, and still cannot get the point across in the time you actually have.
It comes from decision makersfinally being able to see your work's value.
We start with a conversation. If we're a good fit, we dig into the symptoms together and build a plan sized to what your team can actually run.
Schedule a free strategy call"It is so difficult to craft that message and to have an elevator pitch where people in the first five minutes get who you are, what you're trying to do, and want to hear more."
Nonprofit Founder
The work is real and the results are there. But there is no funder deck, the asks go out and nothing comes back, and the people who would say yes never encounter you in the first place. The problem is reach, and the materials that would fix it do not exist yet.
It takes ten slides and several conversations before someone understands what you do. By the time the point arrives, their attention is gone. People love the work once they finally get it. Too few of them get there.
Your mission is clear. What is missing is the thread connecting it to what a particular funder, partner, or agency already cares about. Without that thread, strong work loses to weaker work that made the connection explicit.
Are you an agency with a client stuck at the writing phase? We partner as a senior production resource after the research is done, to translate offerings too complex or too particular for a generalist writer.
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A bilingual nonprofit platform had real traction: 2,500 members, active city and utility partnerships, a product the community trusted. Funders, partners, and government programs each got the same undifferentiated language with no clear reason to engage.
We built three audience-specific value propositions, a refreshed mission statement, and a website copy audit the in-house team could execute independently.
One message architecture. Three audiences. No coming back for rewrites.
A professional association chapter had years of real impact and a website that didn't reflect it. Donors couldn't see why it mattered. Prospective members couldn't see themselves in it.
The messaging platform came first. Almost every word on the new site is new. It launched at the end of 2025.
Growth that kept climbing well past launch.
Ten questions against your own materials: your homepage, your last grant application, your most recent donor email. You score it yourself and see exactly where the language is losing people. No call, no signup, no one reading over your shoulder.
Most organizations score in the middle band. That one is fixable.
The work is real and the proof exists. What is missing is language that carries both, and materials that put it in front of enough people. These three phases build that in sequence, starting with whatever is most broken right now.
If you continue, this comes off the price of Phase 2.
Before anything gets written, we need to understand where the language is breaking down and why. We review your existing materials: website, grant applications, pitch decks, donor communications. We identify where audiences are losing the thread, which claims are landing and which aren't, and what's missing entirely.
Sliding scale based on your operating budget.
With the roadmap in place, we build the message architecture your organization has been missing. Audience-specific value propositions for each group you most need to move. A mission statement that survives a first read by someone who has never heard of you. Persona profiles that tell your team not just who they're talking to, but what those people are actually listening for.
Sliding scale based on your operating budget.
The language exists. Now it needs to work across the places people actually encounter your organization. Website copy, pitch deck, quarterly donor newsletter, event promotion. Every application is tied directly to the value propositions and personas built in Phase 2. Your team also gets the templates and guidance to maintain it independently without coming back for rewrites.
Most plans fail because they assume capacity nobody has. Before anything gets built, we work out who on your team will run it, how much time they genuinely have, and what happens in the weeks they do not.
You get something you can start on Monday, not a document that sits on a shelf until the next strategy conversation.
"Yoanne is who I call when something business-critical isn't making sense to the people I need to hear it. A great many business problems come back to communication and the needs of the audience. We've partnered on positioning in both the impact and startup spaces, and in both, I've been delighted by her work."
Kathryn Latham, Business Advisor and Strategic Operator
"Yoanne is such a delight to work with. Her input on how to communicate our product through our homepage was just elite. I feel so much more prepared to connect with our customers. Some of the most impactful professional input I've ever received."
Dominic Kuklawood, Client
"Yoanne was great to work with. She was always professional, responsive, and efficient. She had an open and personable communication style. She was keen on delivering clear and informative communications."
Lan Guo
Copy, structure, and build. Whether the site needs new words on the design you have or a full rebuild, the work starts from the message so every page has a job and every visitor knows what to do next.
A written plan for the year ahead: what you say, to whom, and around which moments. Built for organizations that know planning matters and do not know where to start.
Content pillars, a posting calendar, and templates your team can run without inventing something new every week. Built on the same value propositions as everything else.
Ongoing production available separately.
Every engagement starts with a conversation about where you actually are, not which package you want.
Schedule a free strategy callI have a PhD in Neuroscience and spent ten years inside organizations where the gap between what the work actually was and what people understood it to be had real consequences. I've been in the lab, in leadership meetings, and in the conversations where messaging decisions get made under pressure.
What I bring to mission-driven organizations is the ability to get complex work right without asking you to simplify it first. The importance of your impact gets clearer, not smaller.
"Doing justice to the immense impact of your efforts."
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Each engagement is scoped to what you actually need. No fixed packages. Email us at info@yoanneclovis.com or book a call, and we'll figure out together whether it's a fit.
