We help mission-driven organizations set strategy, raise and deploy resources, shape narratives, and lead when the stakes are high.
We work with nonprofits, funders, and social enterprises to grow audiences, raise money, shift narratives, build strong relationships between grantmakers and grantees, and design durable strategies for social impact. Clients come to us when the work is mission-driven, the pressure is real, and the margin for error is low.
KMSG is a social impact consulting firm that works with leaders navigating complexity. From capital campaigns, narrative resets, and moments of crisis to organizational pivots and field-wide strategic planning, we are prepared to support your work when you need clarity, traction, and the ability to move fast without losing direction.
Every client is mission-driven. Every engagement is built to deliver.
That includes fundraising and funder engagement strategies that help leverage millions of dollars, communications strategies and campaigns that reach global, national, and local audiences, and executive advisory work that aligns teams at moments of real pressure.
If you're building something serious and need a partner who can keep pace, we’re ready when you are.
Here's what the work has produced.
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Five practices.
One accountable team.
Every project at KMSG is led by someone who has run their function somewhere else first. The Managing Director maintains direct oversight of every workstream, deliverable, and deadline.
We translate complex impact data into communications that move people. That includes narrative strategy, digital execution, media engagement, and the editorial work that makes a campaign coherent.
Recent work Led messaging and advocacy for Global Citizen campaigns reaching 10.5M people. Led communications strategy for NO MORE, the impact campaign for the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution.
We assess what is working across communications, fundraising, and organizational infrastructure, and what is not. The deliverables are designed to be implemented the same week, not filed away.
Recent work Communications assessments across the Tow Foundation grantee cohort. Recommendations rated 9.2 out of 10 for usefulness; 100% would recommend to peers.
Strategic and executive support at moments of real pressure: budget cuts, leadership transitions, reputational risk, board-level decisions, and field-wide strategic choices.
Recent work Led communications response for the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium after a proposed elimination of state funding. Facilitated The Fortune Society's executive leadership retreat. Supported engagements with Members of Congress and senior public officials across advocacy campaigns.
We fill capacity gaps without disrupting continuity. That includes interim communications and development leadership, fractional support, parental leave coverage, and structured hiring for key positions.
Recent work Fractional communications leadership for Designing Justice + Designing Spaces during a transitional growth period and 10th anniversary campaign. Supported organizations receiving transformational philanthropic gifts through narrative, positioning, and funder engagement strategy.
We design and facilitate the convenings, cohorts, and capacity-building relationships that help grantmakers and grantees work together with more clarity, trust, and practical follow-through.
Recent work Multi-year grantee capacity-building cohort for The Tow Foundation, supporting 30+ grantee organizations and 55 partners through structured learning sessions; interim executive leadership included oversight of $30M in annual grantmaking.
A firm with a place, a position, and a record.
KM Strategies Group is an LGBTQ-owned social impact consulting firm, certified by the NGLCC and the Equality Chamber of DC. We're anchored in Pittsburgh, the largest city in Appalachia, and shaped by Southern roots. Our portfolio spans 18 countries, including six LMICs, and our leadership team is 100% first-generation college graduates and graduates of public schools and universities.
We reinvest more than 10% of profits each year into Southern and Appalachian organizations through The Etolia Fund, our grantmaking arm. To date, we've donated more than $150,000 to nonprofit movements working to make their communities better, stronger, and more vibrant places to live. In 2025, we launched the KMSG Research Fellowship with the University of Alabama and Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, building an equity-centered talent pipeline between Alabama and Western Pennsylvania.
Engagements that show how we operate.
Some of Our Clients
We count some of the most prominent social impact organizations and purpose-aligned companies among our clients, including:
Our Corporate, Event, and Campaign Partners Include:
KMSG IN THE NEWS
KMSG IN THE NEWS
Since our founding in 2021, KMSG’s work has been featured in The Associated Press, NPR, Forbes, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy News Digest, The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, POLITICO, The Birmingham News, The Montgomery Advertiser, Reckon, and many other publications.
"KMSG is a next-generation firm that is leading innovative and necessary reforms [to the social impact sector]. Its early success and profitability from day one are a successful case study and counter-narrative to the misguided notion that new businesses must choose between profit and social responsibility."
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