For Foundations
Your grantees have stories worth millions. Most will never be told.
Pool Creative Blocks across your grantee portfolio. One vendor, consistent quality, centralized reporting — storytelling infrastructure for the organizations you fund.
The Problem
The storytelling infrastructure gap
Your grantees do transformative work — but they can’t articulate it in ways that inspire support. The problem compounds at every level.
Most grantees have no in-house creative staff and rely on sporadic freelancers or stock imagery. Their impact stories — the ones that drive donations, policy wins, and public awareness — remain untold.
Foundations invest millions in grantees but have no way to see or amplify the aggregate impact of their portfolio. Each grantee manages storytelling independently — if at all — producing inconsistent quality and leaving the foundation blind to its own narrative.
The nonprofit storytelling landscape has a wide gap. Large foundations and well-funded organizations can afford agency-level production. Smaller and mid-size organizations are left to figure it out on their own — iPhone videos, stock photos, and DIY design. Professional storytelling infrastructure that scales to fit different budgets barely exists.
The case for visual storytelling infrastructure
Video isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the difference between impact that’s visible and impact that disappears.
How the allocation works
One contract covers your entire portfolio. Each grantee gets professional production capacity — without the overhead of building it themselves.
Purchase a block allocation
Your foundation buys Creative Blocks at enterprise pricing. One contract, one vendor, one invoice.
Allocate across your portfolio
Distribute blocks to grantees based on storytelling needs. Reallocate quarterly as priorities shift.
Grantees produce content
Each grantee works with a dedicated RiseWorks creator to produce video, photo, and podcast content using their allocated blocks.
You see everything
A centralized dashboard tracks output, usage, and impact across your entire portfolio. Board-ready reports on demand.
Your Foundation
Pooled blocks / month
RiseWorks
Allocates & produces
Environmental Org
Wetland restoration docs, advocacy campaigns
Youth & Families
After-school spotlights, family testimonials
Arts Collective
Exhibition documentation, artist profiles, program spotlights
Community Health
Patient stories, wellness campaigns, provider spotlights
Education Fund
Classroom stories, scholarship impact, alumni features
What your grantees get
Production
Video, photo, and podcast — professionally edited, multi-format deliverables ready for every channel.
Strategy
Help finding their story, distribution planning, and training on visual storytelling fundamentals.
Ownership
Perpetual content rights. Use across fundraising, grant applications, annual reports, and social media — no restrictions.
What your foundation gets
Operational efficiency
Single vendor across all grantees. Consistent quality. No more coordinating freelancers organization by organization.
Portfolio visibility
Real-time dashboard with block usage and asset delivery. Quarterly impact reports. Annual narrative report — board-ready.
Capacity building
Grantees gain infrastructure, not just deliverables. Training workshops build storytelling literacy across your entire portfolio.
Already have an agency of record?
Most foundation agencies lack authentic raw content from grantee field work. We’re happy to work alongside your existing agency — RiseWorks handles field production and delivers source material, your agency handles creative direction and campaign execution.
Creative Projects
Full-scale productions for foundations
Capital Campaign Visual Suite
A fundraising-focused content package built to support a specific campaign
Impact Annual Report
A video-first annual report that replaces or complements the traditional PDF
Project types are scoped per engagement and priced using the block model.
See all project types→RiseWorks Academy
Every grantee gets Academy access
Between professional productions, your grantees keep building — learning to capture their own stories, manage assets, and communicate impact. One investment upskills your entire portfolio.
Your story,
mapped in seconds.
Tell us what your organization does and we'll generate tailored content ideas using our StoryStack framework.
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