Communications Audit
$2,500 to $4,500
A full assessment of where your communications strategy stands: what's working, what's missing, and where the gaps are costing you. Delivered as a written brief with specific recommendations.
Services
Choose the support your organization needs.
Senior strategic communications support for international nonprofits, built around what your organization needs right now.
12-month retainer contractAll retainers are a 12-month engagement so strategy has time to compound.
Strategic Advisory
Advisory Retainer
Smaller nonprofits and organizations that need senior strategic direction.
$2,500/month
What is included
- Monthly 90-minute strategy session
- Crisis on-call access
- Crisis response drafting at $350 per crisis event
- Monthly review of your team's content
- One proactive media pitch per month
- Async access
Best Offer
Strategic Communications Partner
Core Retainer
Mid-size international nonprofits with no senior communications person on staff.
$54,000/year(saves $6,000)
$5,000/month
A full-time Director of Communications costs $90,000 to $120,000 in salary alone. A mid-size PR agency runs $8,000 to $15,000 per month with junior-level day-to-day contact.
What is included
- Monthly 90-minute strategy session with written priorities memo
- Crisis on-call access with two-hour response guarantee; crisis drafting included
- Two written pieces per month
- One proactive media pitch per month
- Ground Truth by LeBarre Group intelligence report; founding member access
- Quarterly performance review
- Unlimited async access
- Structured onboarding in month one
Not included
Social media management; website design, SEO, or paid advertising; grant writing.
Full Communications Partnership
Full Service Retainer
Larger organizations ($15M+) in active campaign mode, post-crisis recovery, or navigating a leadership or rebrand transition.
$8,500/month
Everything in the Core Retainer, plus:
What is included
- Four written pieces per month
- Full social media strategy and content calendar
- Two proactive media pitches per month
- Executive LinkedIn ghostwriting, 6–8 posts per month
- Monthly board and leadership communications brief
- Annual communications strategy and 12-month roadmap
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90-Day Sprint
$6,000 to $12,000
Fixed scope, fixed timeline. For organizations that need strategic communications work done now and want to see what the partnership looks like before committing to a retainer.
Project-based engagements
Cross-Cultural Messaging Audit (MENA-Specific)
$5,000 standard | $7,500 complex multi-program
Your communications may be saying different things to different audiences without realizing it. This audit reviews all existing communications for cross-cultural coherence across Western donors, local partners, and target communities, and delivers written rewrite recommendations.
Crisis Communications Playbook
$4,000
Your organization will face a crisis. This engagement builds the playbook before that happens: risk assessment, pre-written holding statements for five to seven scenarios, stakeholder notification chain, spokesperson protocols, social media decision tree, and a half-day team training.
Brand Messaging Architecture
$5,500
The foundation everything else is built on. Positioning statement, key messages per audience, brand voice guide, elevator pitch in three versions, and tagline options. Built once and used across every channel and communication that follows.
Annual/Impact Report: Full Copy
$6,000
Intake interviews, narrative architecture, and full copywriting for a 20 to 40-page report. Copy only; we recommend a designer partnership for production.
Major Fundraising Campaign: End-to-End
$6,000
Case for support, email sequence of three to seven emails, social content calendar, major donor materials, and post-campaign impact report narrative. Includes two revision rounds.
Media Training: Executive or Team
$950 per session
Research on likely questions, key message development, written prep brief, live mock interview, and bridging and blocking coaching. One-on-one or team up to four.
Grant Communications Narrative
$2,750
Theory of change framing, organizational positioning, and impact statement that makes the work legible to grant reviewers. Grant communications, not grant writing.
Not sure which fits? Let's scope it together.
Your first 30 days with LeBarre Group.
Week 1
We meet your team.
Kickoff with your leadership team. We get access to what you already have, learn how you talk about your work today, and agree on the two priorities that will define the first quarter.
Weeks 2 & 3
We read the room.
We review your funder-facing messaging, sector positioning, and what's actually being said about your organization in the places funders read. You get a written diagnostic that tells you exactly where you stand.
Week 4
We start the work.
You get a 90-day plan with confirmed priorities, a monthly strategy cadence, a crisis on-call protocol, and the first piece of work already in motion.