The Pivot — July 18 · Nonprofit Leaders Cohort
Black Coffee Communications Inc.
July 18 · Founding Cohort
Saturday, July 18, 2025  ·  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET  ·  Online

The Pivot
for Nonprofit Leaders

Your mission is clear. Your message should be too.

You know why your organization exists. You've seen the impact. You've lived the mission. But somewhere between the work and the words — the funding conversations, the community partnerships, the case you need to make to the people who haven't seen what you've seen — something gets lost in translation.

The Pivot is a four-hour working session that fixes that. We build your brand clarity, your organizational voice, and your story — together, in real time — so you leave with the tools to communicate your impact in a way that moves people to act.

4 hrs Working session
7 Blocks of real work
16 Max cohort size
July 18 One date. Reserve now.

Built for this room. Whether you lead a grassroots organization or a national program, whether you're preparing for a capital campaign or simply tired of explaining what you do in a way that lands — this session was designed with nonprofit practitioners at the centre.

The work you do deserves
a story that does it justice.

Most nonprofit leaders are extraordinary at the work — and chronically under-resourced when it comes to communicating it. Not because the story isn't there. Because there's never been time, space, or structure to build it properly.

The Pivot gives you that time and structure — in a single morning. We move through seven focused blocks, each one building on the last, each one producing something you keep. By the time we close, you'll have your brand foundation in hand: your purpose named, your audience defined, your voice articulated, and your story ready to tell.

This isn't a communications workshop that teaches theory. It's a working session. You bring your organization — we build together.

What we work through

01
Your Ancient Knowledge The expertise, lived experience, and insight that makes your org irreplaceable
02
Who You're Built to Serve Mapping your audiences — community, funders, partners — and what each one needs to hear
03
Your Signature Offer Programs, services, and partnerships — packaged in a way that's easy to say yes to
04
Your Brand Voice Four words that define how your organization sounds — applied immediately
05
Your UVP The one sentence that makes your community, funders, and partners lean in
06
Your 90-Day Communications Plan A realistic content and visibility plan built around your expertise — consistent without being consuming
07
Relationship Development Having the conversation that builds partnerships, funders, and community trust

What you leave with

  • Your organizational purpose and community superpower — named
  • Audience profiles for each of your key stakeholder groups
  • Your programs and services packaged as a clear offer
  • A brand voice guide — four words, applied
  • Your UVP: the sentence that opens doors
  • A social enterprise and earned revenue framework — programs and services designed to generate sustainable income
  • A 90-day communications and content plan — realistic, specific, yours
  • Five strategic partnership targets and a 90-day outreach plan
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Mercedes Blackwood
Founder, Black Coffee Communications Inc.

Nearly two decades in brand strategy and communications, including work alongside 100+ organizations — from community nonprofits to national programs. I've helped organizations find the story that moves capital, builds trust, and turns unfamiliarity into genuine connection. Six cohorts of the Ogo Tawa Black Artrepreneur accelerator, Management Advisory Service, United Way, Culture Days National, and a lectureship at Toronto Metropolitan University.

We're not in the business of keeping money that wasn't earned. If you've genuinely engaged with the first two blocks and the session isn't landing for you, reach out. We'll work something out.
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The Pivot · July 18
Saturday · 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET · Online · Max 16 seats
$147 CAD  ·  Founding cohort rate
  • Complete nine-block participant workbook (PDF)
  • Pre-recorded mini-teach for each block
  • Pre-work exercise sent 24 hours before
  • Four hours of live facilitation on July 18
  • Peer working pairs and live UVP hot seat
  • Session recording (with participant consent)
Limited to 16 participants  ·  Founding cohort pricing
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