We make the brands and documents that ask for money, so you can change lives.
Fundraising documents always wind up in front of someone who controls a budget.
An investor. A donor. A board. Whoever they are, they have only so much time in a day. With multiple asks, they're not going to read everything. They form an opinion in the first forty seconds, and then decide whether the rest is worth their energy.
That's what we design for.
We're good at the high-stakes, complex creative. The annual report. The pitch deck that has to survive a partner meeting. The case for support a gift officer carries into someone's living room. Long documents where one idea has to stay intact from the cover all the way to the ask. It's harder than it sounds, and is where most of them come apart.
What
we craft
Four things, for one moment: somebody deciding whether to fund you. The deck makes the ask. The report proves your impact. The case for support goes into a hand. And the brand is what proves your credibilty.
We start with the strategy and get to the slides later, which sounds obvious, but almost never happens. What are you asking for, why does it have to be now, and what's the objection that someone might raise? That last one gets dealt with on the page, so it doesn't have to get dealt with in the room.
We have worked with leading Venture Capital firms, non-profits with a dream, and everyone in between.
You have to report back – there's no getting around it. How do you engage while communicating complex information? We have 23 years of experience in communications design for regulated, audited markets. Annual reports aren't going anywhere. Digital or in print, they're often fifty-odd pages a board will skim and a donor will judge you on. Most annual reports open with a letter nobody finishes and bury the actual result in a chart on page thirty-one.
We'll tell the story up front and hold it the whole way through. We also build systems so that next year's takes a fraction of the effort, because you're going to be doing this again in twelve months and you know it.
From capital campaigns to legacy giving, the document your development teams hand to someone who could write a very large cheque is so important. It has one job, which is to make saying yes feel like the obvious thing to do.
We've sat on the both sides of the table, so we know what a gift officer actually wants in their hand, versus what gets left in the car. We have worked with international and domestic NGOs and charities to communicate exactly who they are, in ways that open hearts (and chequebooks).
Consistency is the part people don't plan for — before a pitch, during due diligence, after a meeting that went well.
We build brands as beautiful, intuitive, and accessible systems with reason and rules attached, so the next person who adds a page doesn't quietly unravel the story. Six months from now, that matters more than the launch did.
From public companies to underdog founders, we close the gap between overlooked and obvious.
Here are some of the brands I've worked with
23 years of partnerships, one new name.
What they say about us
"As a first time founder, raising money is new territory and quite overwhelming. I was hesitant to invest in a pitch deck designer, but I'm so thankful that I did. Ashley is amazing! The whole process was smooth and done quickly and now I'm going into pitch conversations confident and composed. Couldn't recommend Lovers & Mentors more for other founders."
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