Nonprofit & Mission-Driven
Brand, web, CRM and donor systems for nonprofits and mission-driven organizations, from annual appeals to membership drives and events.
Nonprofits do important work with limited time, budget and staff. Helm Digital is a nonprofit marketing agency in Portland, Maine that helps mission-driven organizations tell their story, reach more supporters and run on systems that make every dollar and hour go further.
We work across the full picture: brand and website, donor and member systems, email and digital campaigns. That means your appeal, your website and your CRM are planned together instead of patched together.
How we help nonprofits
- Brand and storytelling. Messaging, identity and annual reports that make your impact tangible. See branding.
- Websites. Accessible, easy-to-update sites that make giving, volunteering and signing up simple. See web design.
- Donor CRM and systems. Choosing, setting up and connecting donor management so you have one view of every supporter. See CRM and integrations.
- Fundraising campaigns. Appeals, membership drives and events backed by email, social and landing pages. See fundraising and donor engagement.
- Digital marketing. SEO, advertising and social media that grow awareness and support.
Experience with mission-driven organizations
We've built shelter tools and an adoption-matching app for the ASPCA, led a CRM evaluation and rollout for Portland's Telling Room, built a Salesforce-based recycling database for the Thermostat Recycling Corporation, and rebuilt the Leeway Foundation's website around its grantees.
Selling online?
If your nonprofit runs an online store, museum shop or campus store, our specialty team at First Pier builds and grows Shopify stores for mission-driven organizations.
What we help solve
Donor data scattered across tools
Gifts in one system, emails in another, event sign-ups in a spreadsheet. Without one connected view, it's hard to thank, steward and re-engage supporters well.
Small teams, big workloads
Development and communications often fall to a handful of people. Marketing has to be efficient, repeatable and as automated as possible.
Telling a story that moves people
Impact is easy to feel in person and hard to convey online. Appeals, reports and websites need to make the mission tangible.
Results from our clients
- ASPCA
Two web applications for the ASPCA: a parvo outbreak protocol generator for shelters and a digital Meet Your Match adoption survey. - Thermostat Recycling Corporation
A Salesforce-based recycling database with nearly 20 years of history, Tableau reporting and automated state compliance reports for a national nonprofit. - The Telling Room
A software evaluation and CRM rollout that gave Portland's Telling Room a 360-degree view of every student, parent, donor and volunteer.
Common questions
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