Ongoing communications support
Someone owns the work month to month. We agree on priorities, responsibilities, deliverables, deadlines, and approvals. I manage the agreed work and keep you informed.
Mergia Communications
Fractional communications leadership for associations, Christian nonprofits, and mission driven schools.
I plan and write your communications and keep them on schedule, without you hiring a full time director. Leadership messages go out on time, and members get updates worth reading.
For organizations with no communications staff, and for teams that need experienced hands for a season.
Make it plain.
That is the whole method. Say what you mean, in words your readers already use, so they can act on it the first time.
What plain language looks like
Interagency stakeholder engagement deliverable
A newsletter people read
An illustration of the edit, written for this site.
Sound familiar?
The newsletter keeps slipping.
It was due the first of the month. It is the fifteenth, and the draft is still waiting on someone's review.
Leaders have no time to write.
The board letter, the member update, and the event remarks are all owed, and there is no open afternoon for any of them.
Announcements go out at the last minute.
Important news gets written the night before, by whoever is free, in a voice that changes every time.
The fix is one person who owns the work, and that person does not have to be a full time hire.
What I take responsibility for
- Leadership messages
Letters, board updates, and remarks, written in the voice of the person signing them and ready on time.
- Staff and member updates
Newsletters, announcements, and family or member communications, drafted, edited, and sent on a schedule people can count on.
- Making technical information understandable
Program, policy, and financial content rewritten so a board member, a donor, or a parent follows it the first time.
- Consistent organizational messaging
One agreed set of words for who you are and what you do, applied across the website, the appeal, and the annual report.
- Communications planning and publishing
An editorial calendar, templates for recurring pieces, and a review path, so communications no longer depends on who has a free hour.
Website design is a secondary capability; see sitesbyabe.com. Or read the full services.
Six years inside federal communications
Every federal sentence is reviewed by someone with the authority to change it, and the reader on the other end still has to understand it the first time. A small mission driven team feels the same pressure from its board and its donors.
U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionDepartment of Homeland Security
Science and Technology DirectorateDepartment of Homeland Security
Defense Health AgencyDepartment of Defense
Work done as a contractor supporting these agencies. They are named to show where the experience comes from and do not endorse this practice.
Outside the practice I have published five books for children, lead children’s ministry at CJC Church in Northern Virginia, and host The Abe-Unit Show on YouTube. More about Abe.
Writing samples available upon request. Request writing samples.
Three ways to work together
A defined project
A specific piece of writing or communications work with a clear finish, such as a set of leadership letters, an annual report narrative, or a newsletter relaunch.
The Clarity Audit
For organizations deciding what to prioritize first. A written review of how you communicate now, a ninety day plan, and a working session with your leadership.
Grant writing for schools, churches and community nonprofits
1.5Mnonprofit organizations in the United States
10,500employed grant writers serving them
I find the funders who already give to organizations like yours, then write the proposal the way their reviewers want to read it. You get funder research, the full narrative, a line item budget and a grant calendar, ready to submit.
- Funders matched to your programs and location.
- Proposals written to each funder’s own priorities.
- Flat fees agreed before work begins.
Figures for 2023, reported by Learn Grant Writing.
Let’s talk about your communications.
Tell me what has to go out and what keeps slipping. I answer within two business days.