hello,
Hello from Beth, Thomas, Westlake, and our creative collective.
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We love working with good people doing work that is good. We are building community, investing in relationships and sharing our skills, hearts, minds, and access, especially in times such as these.
We are artists, writers, designers, producers, and strategists who have worked for decades in communications and marketing teams at nonprofits, corporations, philanthropies, foundations, and as freelancers.
We get you, We've got you.
ridiculous memes etc
music for hope in tricky times
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what we
value
Actual equity: We believe everyone deserves life, joy, and health, and there is enough for everyone. For some, there are barriers to this access.
We are of, for, by, and with community: We are a part of the communities that we serve, which means we care about our outcomes as much as our clients do because they impact us all.
Ingenuity: The best ideas come from getting creative and inviting different perspectives. It is not ingenuity to hear the same things from the usual suspects over and over.
Accountability: We have the sticky conversations and don’t let the hard stuff slide. We hold each other to our shared values; and we are open to transparency and growing.
Agency: We eschew the traditional ‘agency’ model, and we make sure that in all our work with clients or talent everyone feels they have agency. ‘The ability to take action or to choose what action to take.’
our
approach
Okay. It’s like this. Imagine you have a tangled messy ball of yarn and you want to make a beautiful flannel shirt. Before we can weave it into fabric and then move into cutting and sewing and buttons, we have to first unravel it so we can see what’s there. We often find that folks want to jump right to the buttons and bows before figuring out the real outcomes and audiences. During our first meeting we’ll listen carefully, find out what you need and then together, we’ll make it happen. We’ll cut to the chase, tell it like it is, ask a bunch of awkward questions, make you get real, and we’ll all have fun doing it.
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Step 1: Unravel yarn (i.e., discovery)
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Step 2: Weave the fabric (i.e., making a handbook)
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Step 3: Cut the pieces (i.e., socials, website)
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Step 4: Sew together (i.e., bringing it together)
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Step 5: The shirt off your back (i.e., sharing it out)
Note: doesn’t always need to start from step 1.
