Built the marketing engine behind RepresentUs's biggest wins— across creative, events, and fundraising

RepresentUs is America's largest nonpartisan anti-corruption organization, fighting to fix a rigged political system through state and federal policy reform.

Project Details

Client: RepresentUs

Issue Area: Democracy Strengthening

Role: Strategic Communications, Partnerships & Campaign Production

Challenge

RepresentUs had urgent issues and a national platform, but its marketing ran campaign to campaign with no connected engine underneath. The work was to build that engine and prove it on high-stakes moments: a re-launch that had to land on social, a flagship event returning after years dark, and a year-end fundraising program that didn't exist yet.

Solution

Three campaigns, each a first of its kind, built on shared infrastructure: data-led creative decisions, multi-channel integration, and partner activation. A pre-launch pivot on the Unbreaking America healthcare film. A partner-powered marketing operation for the American Democracy Summit. A built-from-zero end-of-year fundraising program spanning email, ads, social, SMS, print, and direct mail.

Outcomes

  • Healthcare film cut-down: 3x the views of the full-length, and the best-performing Instagram post in RepUs history at the time.

  • American Democracy Summit: 1,000+ attendees, sold out, 20 partner orgs activated.

  • End-of-year giving: 5x the prior year, 15,000 new subscribers, 200+ lapsed donors reengaged.

The bottleneck is never ambition.

Every one of these was a first: the org's first celebrity collaboration, a flagship event rebuilt after going dark, its first integrated year-end fundraising program . At mission-driven orgs the missing piece is rarely vision. It's the function to carry it. I got to build it.

See Inside Campaigns That Fueled Growth

Pivoted a healthcare film before launch and tripled its views.

Marketed a dormant democracy summit to exceed attendee goals.

Built RepUs's first integrated year-end fundraising program and raised 5x.

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