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Build the support needed to drive bold, impactful change.

Growth doesn't happen when your message is unclear.

I help nonprofit leaders strengthen alignment, build trust, and create the shared understanding

that moves teams, boards, and stakeholders forward together.

With clear messaging, strong direction, and thoughtful communication,

you can shift from scattered efforts to focused progress and set the stage for lasting impact.

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Explore the ways we can work together below:
 

Organizational Narrative and Messaging
Growth Readiness and Cultural Alignment

Strategic Plan Activation

Change Planning and Communication

Find the Words That Bring People In

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The story fuels confidence, connection, and growth.

For teams that struggle to explain what they do in a way that feels clear, confident, and consistent, especially when speaking to funders, boards, and potential partners.

Your message is out there, but it doesn’t quite feel unified. Different people describe your work in different ways, and it’s slowing you down. Whether you're strengthening board engagement, helping staff speak with clarity, or showing up more consistently in the community, you need language that reflects who you are and where you're headed.

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An Organizational Narrative and Messaging engagement typically includes: 

This engagement typically includes:
✔ Stakeholder conversations to explore what feels inconsistent, misunderstood, or difficult to articulate
✔ Development of a shared narrative rooted in your purpose, values, and direction
✔ A messaging framework for use across internal and external settings
✔ Training sessions to build consistency and confidence across staff and board
✔ Tools and templates for everyday use
✔ Optional: Train AI on your organization's voice, messaging, brand, and narrative to create (almost) ready-to- go communications

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What you'll get: 

A message your team and board can own. You’ll walk away with messaging that strengthens your fundraising case, improves partner and public communication, and gives your organization a consistent voice you don’t have to keep rewriting.

Build the Culture That Growth Requires

When your team isn’t working from the same playbook, growth feels impossible.

For teams who are ready to grow but feel siloed, stretched, or unsure where to focus next.

 

You know your organization is ready for something more. But what exactly does that look like? The team is collaborative but moving in different directions. Expectations feel unclear. The vision is fuzzy or maybe hasn’t been fully articulated.

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This engagement helps you define where you're headed, reshape the culture to support it, and create the shared direction that sustainable growth depends on.

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It can stand on its own, serve as an alternative to a traditional strategic plan, or lay the groundwork for one.

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A Growth Readiness and Cultural Alignment engagement typically includes:

✔ Insight sessions with staff, leadership, and board to name what’s holding people back, what’s getting lost, and where the energy is slipping
✔ Facilitated conversations to explore your current state, future direction, and cultural dynamics
✔ A narrative and messaging framework to reflect your path forward and why it matters
✔ Strategic recommendations to focus planning, reset expectations, or strengthen internal alignment

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What you'll get: 

​A leadership team, staff, and board that share a renewed sense of purpose and direction. You’ll leave with a focused path forward and a culture that’s ready to grow.

Activate Your Strategy

A strategic plan that sits on a shelf won’t move your mission.

For teams with a strategic plan that looks great on paper, but needs to come to life across the organization.


You’ve built the plan. Now you need to make it real. But staff are unclear on priorities, the board isn’t fully bought in, and day-to-day work still feels disconnected from the big picture. Now you need the tools, habits, and shared understanding that help people carry it out.

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A Strategy Activation engagement typically includes:

✔ Review of your strategic plan and conversations to identify where the messages are mixed
✔ Facilitation with staff and board to clarify roles, priorities, and messages
✔ A messaging framework that translates high-level goals into usable language
✔ A communication plan to help your team keep the strategy in motion
✔ Tools to support progress and help everyone focus on what matters most

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What you'll get: 
A strategy that guides real decisions and daily work. You’ll gain tools, language, and communication habits that help your team and board carry the strategy forward, stay focused, and show progress to funders, partners, and your community.

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Already working with a strategic planning consultant? I can partner alongside them to ensure your plan is built with the messaging, change management, and communication support needed for it to take hold before it's even finalized.

Lead Change Well

The success of any change depends on how you communicate it.

For teams navigating major transformation, such as a strategic direction change, merger, or program expansion or sunset, who need to communicate clearly, build trust, and move forward together.

 

You’re leading an organization that’s aiming for deep culture change toward more collaboration, equity, adaptability, or another critical shift. But progress feels slow, and communication keeps breaking down or failing to move the needle.

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A Change Planning and Communication engagement  typically includes:

✔ Collaborative conversations to understand the nature of the change, your goals, and your audiences
✔ A clear change narrative that explains what’s changing, why it matters, and what it means for each group
✔ Stakeholder mapping and tailored communication plans for teams, board, and external stakeholders
✔ Facilitation and coaching to support key conversations and address concerns
✔ Ongoing support to reinforce the shift and keep your organization steady and focused

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What you'll get:
A communication strategy and message set that help you lead through transitions with purpose and trust. Whether you’re facing a leadership change, merger, rebrand, or cultural shift, you'll be fully equipped to reduce confusion, rebuild trust, and keep people connected to the mission, even when the path forward is evolving. Your board, staff, and partners will know how to talk about what’s changing and why it matters.

"Wow! Angela has breathed new life into our organization's messaging, and we now have the map we needed to communicate who we are and what we do.
 
She worked with us skillfully and patiently through every step, and we now have a new way forward."

- Angela Abdur-Rasheed
Prosper, Birmingham Alabama

Angela Marino
Relevant Thread Consulting, LLC

107 W Pacific Ave, St. Louis, MO 63119 

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Keep In Touch.

You can find me on LinkedIn where I share insights, tips, and ideas about change, messaging, and strategy for the nonprofit sector. I would love to connect with you!

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