Our Work

The Winston-Salem Foundation needed guidance and support with public communication to share with its community the reflections and learning from in-depth listening sessions and to announce its six new priorities, along with other changes it will be making. 

Nectar joined the team as a partner after Foundation staff had engaged in an extensive process to listen and learn from the community it serves. They surveyed partners, sorted through data, held listening sessions with hundreds of people, and worked together to explore what common themes had emerged. They were ready to share this information, but needed someone to get them to the finish line and create messaging that captured their work in an engaging way. 

The Foundation recognized that strategic external engagement and communications is vital to the success of its grantmaking and community investment. It also recognized its important role in leading difficult conversations and knew that it would be venturing into new territory by not only announcing its new funding areas, but sharing its commitment to racial equity for the first time. They selected Nectar to support this work because of our intersections in philanthropy and racial justice movement support. 

Our team worked with a longstanding creative partner of the Foundation, M Creative, to create a microsite as a guide for their audiences to learn about the new priorities and commitments, and more deeply understand all of the work that has been done and is yet to come. We created all of the announcement language on the site, including supplementary storytelling around community reflections.