With a client base that features some of America’s finest private and public colleges, universities, schools, foundations, and nonprofit institutions, Mackey Strategies’ team of deeply experienced communications, marketing, and fundraising executives helps change makers build lasting strategic impact. Delivering expertise in institutional rebrands, interim leadership, presidential counsel, operational audits, fundraising campaigns, admissions marketing, and more, we are dedicated to greater futures for educational nonprofits and all they mean to our country.
Services for our clients have included:
Complete re-brands, including strategies, messaging, taglines, websites, design, and publications
Institutional communications strategies
Interim Head of Communications
Interim Head of Development
Campaign communications strategies and messaging
Campaign case statements, microsites, and videos
Fundraising and donor engagement counsel
Campaign strategies and planning
Annual giving strategies
Training in storytelling for fundraising teams
Admissions messaging and viewbooks
Staffing and organizational audits for communications and development teams
Crisis communications strategies and tabletop trainings
Media relations strategies and related training for faculty and administrators
Thought-leadership pieces (published in places like The Atlantic, USA Today, Politico, Harvard Business Review, The Hill, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed)
Comprehensive, multi-media announcements of new leadership
Presidential communications
Executive coaching
New websites and marketing literature
Videography
Clients
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
American Talent Initiative
American University of Afghanistan
Amherst College
Aurora University
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bucknell University
Carleton College
Clark University
College Advising Corps
Colorado College
Connecticut College
Concord Academy
Eaglebrook School
Empire State University
Franklin & Marshall College
Furman University
Georgian Court University
Gettysburg College
Hesston College
The Hotchkiss School
The Hun School of Princeton
Indiana State University
Innovation Advisory Partners
Ithaca College
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Johns Hopkins University
Kimball Union Academy
Lafayette College
Marist College
Maryland Institute College of Art
Moravian University
Muhlenberg College
National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
Pace University
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Pingree School
Pomona College
Rider University
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Science Foundation Arizona
Sewanee: The University of the South
Skidmore College
Smith College
St. Lawrence University
Storbeck Search
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University System
Trinity College
Tulane University
Tulane University Freeman School of Business
Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of South Carolina
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Willamette University
What Our Clients Say…
““Pete Mackey served as our Interim Chief Communications Officer during a period of tremendous transition and challenge in our organization. As a new CEO, he helped me learn about the communications landscape. He also created an interim strategy that set our team on a new course to success. His knowledge of the field and willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty made him a wonderful partner in this work.””
““What was most impressive about Mackey Strategies’ work with us was their commitment to the foundational work of understanding who we are and what we represent. As a result, the materials that emerged—a new tagline, logo, and other elements of our institutional identity—are a completely authentic reflection of our values and aspirations. They were true collaborators, always enthusiastic and at times indefatigable, working with equal parts care and tenacity to elicit from us a renewed vision for ourselves. We couldn’t have hoped for more.””
““During Melanie Moran’s partnership with Muhlenberg College, she provided outstanding strategic leadership in communications and marketing. She led efforts to create a data-driven strategic messaging framework, oversaw an audit and significant refresh of the college website, and provided leadership and good counsel in presidential and crisis communications. Her work laid the foundation for a smooth transition for our new vice president for communications and marketing, who valued her insight and collaboration greatly.””
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