Strategy for mission-driven leaders with big work to move
You already know what your organization wants to change. I help you turn that vision into a plan funders can understand, a story people can connect to, and systems your team can actually use.
Let’s be honest. Your team does not need another polished document that no one opens again.
How I help
You know the work deserves support. I help you shape the funding story, find aligned opportunities, and build a process that does not start over with every deadline.
Grant strategy · Funding pipelines · Proposals · Donor campaigns
You have the idea. I help you define how it will work, what success looks like, what to measure, and how to explain it clearly to partners and funders.
Logic models · Evaluation plans · Outcomes · Implementation
When the story feels scattered or changes depending on who tells it, I help your team find the throughline and build messages people can understand and use.
Messaging · Campaigns · Executive voice · Communications systems
If donor communication happens only when a deadline hits, I help you build the language, rhythm, and tools to cultivate support throughout the year.
Cases for support · Donor journeys · Annual reports · Stewardship
My approach
I stay close enough to understand what is really happening, connect the pieces, and build tools your team can keep using after our work together ends.
We start with an honest conversation about your goals, capacity, audiences, funding, and what keeps getting in the way.
I look across programs, communications, fundraising, data, and operations because the real challenge rarely lives in only one place.
Then we turn the strategy into messaging, plans, proposals, calendars, evaluation tools, systems, and clear ownership.
I help your team put the work into practice, learn what is working, make adjustments, and keep moving with confidence.
Selected work
Funding + program design
Developed the implementation strategy that helped IV-CHARIS secure a $400,000 grant, then built the evaluation framework to measure participation, experience, and outcomes.
Grant writing + development systems
From 2022 through October 2025, supported All-In Cincinnati with grant writing, impact framing, tracking, and communications infrastructure. The organization exceeded its annual fundraising goal in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Visibility + communications
Built campaigns and narratives that earned attention from NBC, NPR, Univision, The New York Times, The Nation, and other major outlets.
Proof in public
A few receipts from statewide advocacy, coalition leadership, public storytelling, and campaigns built to move people.
Led an integrated program that connected narrative, organic content, video, earned media, and conversion across statewide campaigns.
The campaign paired message testing, community-rooted creative, organic storytelling, and paid distribution in a low-information race.
Co-created a documentary centered on Black maternal health, lived experience, and the systems shaping family outcomes.
Moved a coalition’s message into public view through a citywide transit campaign designed to honor, celebrate, and love Black women.
Media + community storytelling
The experience behind the work
My perspective comes from leading across journalism, philanthropy, advocacy, political communications, fundraising, and organizational growth.
Featured training
At Netroots Nation, I shared a practical framework for moving stories out of silos and into coordinated systems that build alignment, persuasion, and long-term power.
“I was delighted that Segann March gets it and her session kicked off the conference on a high point.”
Cassie Clayton, NPI’s Cascadia Advocate
These results come from my in-house executive leadership experience. I bring the same strategy, discipline, and scale to every client engagement.
Strategy that stays close to people
Whether I am supporting family engagement, program recruitment, coalition strategy, or leadership planning, I start by listening and build from what people can actually carry forward.
From a client
Funding strategy + organizational growth
“Working with Segann and March Creative Solutions has been a game changer for CE3. She has helped us move beyond simply applying for grants to developing an intentional funding strategy that supports where we are trying to go. Segann takes the time to understand our vision and helps us communicate it in a way that funders can understand and connect with. She has truly become a valuable partner in CE3’s growth.”
Rameka Smith Founder and Executive Director, CE3: Community Enrichment, Encouragement and Empowerment
Why March With Me
If your communications are not landing, the real issue may not be the writing. It may be an unclear strategy, a program that still needs shape, missing data, disconnected systems, or a funding model that cannot yet carry the vision.
That is why I work across narrative, funding, evaluation, and organizational strategy. I help you solve the problem underneath the assignment and leave with something your team can actually use.
Explore Segann’s journalism and multimedia portfolio“I looked at the Implementation Plan, and this is GREAT work, Segann!!”
Camisha A. Chambers, IV-CHARIS
Ready to work together?
You do not need a perfect brief or every answer figured out. Tell me where things stand, what you are trying to move, and where your team feels stuck.
Typical investmentMost March With Me engagements begin at $3,500. Final pricing reflects the scope, timeline, and level of implementation.
A few honest answers are enough to get us started.
Start a conversation
Tell me what you are building, what keeps getting stuck, and what you want to be different on the other side.
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