NGOs & Global Development
Content that moves policy, donors, and the people you serve.
Your field teams create extraordinary impact. But the stories that drive congressional funding, attract major donors, and sustain public attention require more than a camera — they require a system.
The Challenge
You operate in the hardest places on earth. Your content strategy shouldn't be the hardest part.
In the field
Extraordinary footage captured on phones by field staff. No system to collect, produce, or distribute it. Raw material with no pipeline.
At headquarters
A comms team stretched across donor reporting, social media, government relations, and media inquiries. Content is reactive, not strategic.
With donors & policymakers
Annual reports and gala videos. No sustained content calendar. No advocacy timing. No conversion from awareness to action to donation.
The Growth Engine
One piece of content. Four outcomes.
Most NGOs treat content as a deliverable. We treat it as infrastructure. Every asset we create is engineered to move through a cycle that compounds attention into advocacy and advocacy into sustainable funding.
Content
Field footage, interviews, and mission moments captured and produced into polished assets.
Attention
Distributed across channels that reach donors, policymakers, and the communities you serve.
Advocacy
Stories that move people from passive awareness to active support and word-of-mouth.
Institutional Funding
Documented impact that unlocks grants, government contracts, and major donor commitments.
Who We Work With
Every NGO has a different story to tell. We build the infrastructure to tell it.
Field-First Organizations
The Field Operator
You work where the story is. Programs in the field, staff capturing extraordinary moments on phones, but no system to turn raw footage into strategic content. We build the pipeline from field to publication.
What We Build For You
- Field capture protocols + remote editing pipeline
- Multi-language subtitle and localization workflows
- Donor impact report video integration
Capacity-Building Platforms
The Development Platform
You fund and strengthen other organizations. Your content must demonstrate portfolio-wide impact to institutional donors while building the communications capacity of grantees.
What We Build For You
- Portfolio impact dashboards + annual report video
- Grantee content training and template systems
- Capital campaign and endowment launch campaigns
Policy & Systems Change
The Advocacy Engine
You exist to change systems, not just serve people. Your content must move legislators, shift public narrative, and sustain long-term pressure on institutions resistant to change.
What We Build For You
- Legislative testimony and policy brief video packages
- Rapid response content for news cycles
- Coalition and ally content distribution network
Our Technology
Built for organizations that operate at scale.
Every tool in the RiseWorks platform was designed around the real operational constraints of NGOs, foundations, and advocacy organizations — distributed teams, limited bandwidth, high accountability. The result is infrastructure that works as hard as your mission does.
StoryStack
Our end-to-end content production system — from field capture protocols to post-production workflows to multi-channel distribution. Built for organizations with content that matters.
Learn about StoryStack →Client Portal
A dedicated workspace where your team reviews assets, approves deliverables, and tracks project progress in real time. No email threads. No version confusion.
Explore the Client Portal →YouTube & Distribution Intelligence
Benchmarking, channel analytics, and AI-powered optimization tools that help NGOs compete for attention on the same platforms as major media brands.
See YouTube Intelligence →Impact Measurement
Connect content performance to program outcomes. CSV import, webhook ingestion, and AI-powered metric normalization so your annual report writes itself.
View Impact Measurement →Case Study
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — Film-to-Movement Content Model
One film. 300,000 screenings. 57 content assets. University curriculum adoption. A single documentary became the foundation for a multi-year movement strategy — proving that strategic content infrastructure creates compounding impact.
Read the full case study →How It Works
From first conversation to content infrastructure in 90 days.
01
Discovery & Strategy
Audit existing content. Map stakeholders. Design a content strategy tied to your advocacy calendar and fundraising cycles.
02
Production & Pipeline
Deploy crews — in-country or remote. Build a repeatable production pipeline. One field trip produces a full month of content.
03
Measure & Scale
Centralized dashboard. Advocacy conversion tracking. Donor attribution. Quarterly impact reports that prove the case for renewal.
Your mission deserves better than stock footage and annual reports.
Tell us about your organization. We'll design a content strategy that turns your field operations into a growth engine for funding, advocacy, and public support.
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