Communications & Fundraising Strategies Built to Inspire Change
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Communications & Fundraising Strategies Built to Inspire Change

 

With a client base that features some of America’s finest private and public colleges, universities, schools, foundations, and nonprofit institutions, Mackey Strategies’ team of deeply experienced communications, marketing, and fundraising executives helps change makers build lasting strategic impact. Delivering expertise in institutional rebrands, interim leadership, presidential counsel, operational audits, fundraising campaigns, admissions marketing, and more, we are dedicated to greater futures for educational nonprofits and all they mean to our country.

Services for our clients have included:

  • Complete re-brands, including strategies, messaging, taglines, websites, design, and publications

  • Institutional communications strategies

  • Interim Head of Communications

  • Interim Head of Development

  • Campaign communications strategies and messaging

  • Campaign case statements, microsites, and videos

  • Fundraising and donor engagement counsel

  • Campaign strategies and planning

  • Annual giving strategies

  • Training in storytelling for fundraising teams

  • Admissions messaging and viewbooks

  • Staffing and organizational audits for communications and development teams

  • Crisis communications strategies and tabletop trainings

  • Media relations strategies and related training for faculty and administrators

  • Thought-leadership pieces (published in places like The Atlantic, USA Today, Politico, Harvard Business Review, The Hill, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed)

  • Comprehensive, multi-media announcements of new leadership

  • Presidential communications

  • Executive coaching

  • New websites and marketing literature

  • Videography

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Clients

  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

  • American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)

  • American Talent Initiative

  • Amherst College

  • Aurora University

  • Boston University

  • Brandeis University

  • Bucknell University

  • Carleton College

  • Clark University

  • College Advising Corps

  • Colorado College

  • Connecticut College

  • Concord Academy

  • Eaglebrook School

  • Empire State University

  • Franklin & Marshall College

  • Furman University

  • Georgian Court University

  • Gettysburg College

  • Hesston College

  • The Hotchkiss School

  • The Hun School of Princeton

  • Indiana State University

  • Innovation Advisory Partners

  • Ithaca College

  • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

  • Johns Hopkins University

  • Kimball Union Academy

  • Lafayette College

  • Marist College

  • Maryland Institute College of Art

  • Moravian University

  • Muhlenberg College

  • National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)

  • Pace University

  • Perot Museum of Nature and Science

  • Pingree School

  • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

  • Science Foundation Arizona

  • Sewanee: The University of the South

  • Skidmore College

  • Smith College

  • St. Lawrence University

  • Storbeck Search

  • Texas Tech University

  • Texas Tech University System

  • Trinity College

  • Tulane University

  • Tulane University Freeman School of Business

  • Tulane University School of Liberal Arts

  • U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • University of South Carolina

  • Washington State University

  • Willamette University

What Our Clients Say…

 
“Pete Mackey served as our Interim Chief Communications Officer during a period of tremendous transition and challenge in our organization. As a new CEO, he helped me learn about the communications landscape. He also created an interim strategy that set our team on a new course to success. His knowledge of the field and willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty made him a wonderful partner in this work.”
— Angel B. Pérez, Chief Executive Officer, National Association for College Admission Counseling
“What was most impressive about Mackey Strategies’ work with us was their commitment to the foundational work of understanding who we are and what we represent. As a result, the materials that emerged—a new tagline, logo, and other elements of our institutional identity—are a completely authentic reflection of our values and aspirations. They were true collaborators, always enthusiastic and at times indefatigable, working with equal parts care and tenacity to elicit from us a renewed vision for ourselves. We couldn’t have hoped for more.”
— Adam F. Falk, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“During Melanie Moran’s partnership with Muhlenberg College, she provided outstanding strategic leadership in communications and marketing. She led efforts to create a data-driven strategic messaging framework, oversaw an audit and significant refresh of the college website, and provided leadership and good counsel in presidential and crisis communications. Her work laid the foundation for a smooth transition for our new vice president for communications and marketing, who valued her insight and collaboration greatly.”
— Kathleen E. Harring, President, Muhlenberg College
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