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The Studio
Design tools, strategy, and templates for nonprofit comms teams doing it mostly on their own.
Practical, specific, and honest.
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Launching in June 2026
Design tools, strategy, and templates for nonprofit comms teams doing it mostly on their own.
Practical, specific, and honest.
Launching in June 2026
Annual reports. Donor campaigns. Newsletters. Social graphics. Impact storytelling. One-pagers for the board meeting that's somehow tomorrow.
And somewhere in the middle of all of that: design.
You're probably working in Canva, doing your best to make things look credible without formal design training. Sometimes it works really well. But other times, something feels slightly off... the layout's a little crowded, the story doesn't quite connect, the materials don't reflect the depth of what you're doing out in the community.
Like most nonprofit leaders, you're likely already scrolling on LinkedIn, browsing Facebook groups, listening to podcasts, attending conferences, all to try staying up to date with industry tips.
Except, you're stuck in implementation mode, with just a little bit too much on your plate and not enough time (and energy) to reset and reinvent.
So your visuals continue to suffer. And no one's teaching you how to properly and easily fix it.
Until now.
The Studio is where nonprofit communicators come to make their materials look and feel as strong as the work behind them.
Inside, you get two things every month: the design strategy to understand why your layouts work (or don't), and the ready-to-use templates to actually fix them.
No guessing. No starting from the ground up. No hiring a designer for every campaign.
It's built from our work designing annual reports, donor campaigns, and impact materials for 60+ nonprofits and foundations.
If that's you (or someone on your team), this is going to help.
Each month, you get a new Field Note: a practical design breakdown focused on one thing we keep seeing across the sector.
What's working, what's undermining your credibility, a real-world visual example analyzed through a design lens, and one clear improvement your team can apply right now. Not theory.
Just honest insight from someone who's been in it long enough to know what donors notice and what makes a layout feel off even when you can't name why.
Every month, you get 3-5 Canva templates curated around what nonprofit teams actually need that month.
Think donor appeals, social graphics, newsletter graphics, event materials, one-pagers, board meeting slides, save the dates, timed to when you actually need them. Some months are seasonal. Others are evergreen essentials you'll reach for all year.
Open it, customize it, use it. Your materials look polished and your afternoon is still yours.
The longer you're a member, the deeper your library gets. After a year, you've got a full design system that actually works together, and you never had to start from scratch.
For 12+ years, I’ve partnered with nonprofits and foundations to design annual reports, donor campaigns, and storytelling materials that help organizations communicate their impact with clarity and credibility.
The Studio is what I've learned in that work, brought together in a format that's actually useful for the teams doing it themselves.
A new Field Note every month: design strategy you can actually use
A monthly template drop: 3–5 curated Canva templates matched to the nonprofit calendar
Monthly drop-in office hours with Olivia: bring your templates, ask your questions, get real-time feedback
Direct input on what gets built next: monthly feedback surveys + open line to share what you need
An exclusive 25% off our Annual Report Template Kits
Design that builds belief. For the organizations doing the most important work.
