The Communications Partner Built for Nonprofits
An agency with heart and tenacity to get the important work done beautifully.
BC/DC Ideas is a nonprofit communications agency. Not a general agency that works with nonprofits — an agency built entirely around mission-driven organizations. We’ve been in the fight for the cause of a better tomorrow for over 15 years. In that time we’ve partnered with more than 100 nonprofits across the country.
Whether you need a full-service nonprofit communications team, strategic guidance, or coaching to build internal capacity, BC/DC Ideas helps you communicate with purpose.
Our Services
What We Do — And How We Do It
Branding & Messaging
Your brand is what people believe about you before you say a word. We make sure it’s saying the right thing.
- Brand development
- Naming and tagline
- Messaging frameworks
- Voice guides
- Audience clarity
Full-Service Communications
Your mission deserves a full communications team. Here’s one — without the overhead.
- Strategy
- Email and automation
- Social media
- Media relations
- Storytelling Video
- Graphic design – print and digital
- Website design, development, and support
- Paid advertising
- Campaign planning
- Analytics
Coaching & Consulting
We’d rather make your team stronger than make ourselves permanent.
- Staff and leadership coaching
- Messaging and storytelling training
- Strategic planning
- Advisory consulting
- Interim capacity support
Leadership Transition Communications
Leadership changes are high-stakes communications moments. We’ve been in the room for them.
- Transition communications planning
- Stakeholder and donor messaging
- Interim support
- Staff and board communications
- Change management
How We Work
Process That Gets It Done
IdeaStorm
Every engagement starts here — a structured discovery session where we get into the heart of your organization, your goals, your audiences, and your constraints. You leave with a clear plan, shared direction, and next steps you can actually act on.
The Kindly Review Process
We wrote the book on getting creative work to completion — efficiently, collaboratively, and without tears. It’s baked into every project we take on. Read it →
Across the Nonprofit Sector
Cross-Sector Experience Is the Point
We’ve worked across almost every corner of the nonprofit world. The breadth is intentional — an insight from a conservation campaign can sharpen your public health message, and a storytelling framework built for an advocacy coalition can transform your fundraising. You get the benefit of what’s working everywhere, not just in your corner.
15+ Years
Nonprofit Experience
100+
Nonprofit Partners
Grassroots groups, national coalitions, and foundations. See the work →
Common Questions
Questions We Hear a Lot
A nonprofit communications agency helps mission-driven organizations develop and execute strategy across all their communications channels — from branding and messaging to email, social media, media relations, websites, and campaigns. Unlike general marketing agencies, a nonprofit-focused agency understands the specific audiences, constraints, and stakes of nonprofit work without needing to be educated from scratch.
We work exclusively with nonprofits, which means we understand the realities of nonprofit life — lean teams, shifting priorities, limited budgets, and the need for communications that work without requiring unlimited capacity. We don’t apply a consumer marketing playbook to mission-driven work. We’ve built our approach from the ground up for organizations like yours.
Every engagement starts with an IdeaStorm — a structured discovery session that produces a clear action plan. From there, we work as a partner, not a vendor: embedded in your goals, transparent about process, and accountable to outcomes. Most engagements include both strategic guidance and hands-on execution.
Yes. We’ve worked with grassroots organizations running on small staffs alongside national coalitions with significant infrastructure. Our approach adapts to the size and capacity of your organization — the strategy is different, but the quality of the thinking isn’t.
We work across nearly every nonprofit sector — public health, environmental advocacy, civil rights, conservation, vaccination, arts, animal welfare, community development, and more. Our cross-sector experience is a deliberate asset: the best communications practices don’t stay inside one issue area, and neither do we.
Yes. Leadership transitions are high-stakes communications moments, and we’ve helped organizations in conservation, animal welfare, and arts maintain strong communications through them. We offer transition planning, stakeholder messaging, and interim communications support tailored to what’s actually happening inside your organization.
Ready to Get Started?
Curious about taking your nonprofit’s communications to the next level? We’re just a conversation away. Whether you have a crystal-clear project in mind or you don’t even know where to start, we’re here to help figure it out with you.