Welcome!

CauseWired is a consulting firm that helps organizations inspire people to support causes that change the world. We work with nonprofits, advocates, and other social sector organizations to target resources, strategy, and message. In whatever way you are looking to take your donor communications program to the next level, strengthen your organization’s case for support and brand, empower and support your senior management team, plan a major campaign, or work more effectively with your Board of Directors, our team has the experience and expertise to help you achieve your goals. With our personalized approach, you’ll have the strategy and support you need.

About Us

Since 2009, CauseWired has provided strategic communications planning and development strategy to the most dynamic, mission-driven organizations in the nation. 

CauseWired’s senior team has unique and unmatched knowledge and commitment to helping visionary organizations. Our clients span a range of large institutions to emerging organizations from criminal justice reform, advocacy, and direct human services.

Our unique backgrounds enable CauseWired to work at the crucial  intersection of development and communications. Together, the senior CauseWired team has assisted organizations that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for difference making causes that work toward a fairer and more just society.

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Putting the Pieces Together

Engagements are led by CauseWired’s senior consultants with decades of combined experience working with leaders in the nonprofit sector. They can help you to navigate the complexities of messaging, cultivation and stewardship – and build relationships to achieve your organization’s goals.

With vast experience helping nonprofit leaders succeed, our team understands that even the most successful nonprofit executives can benefit from a fresh perspective, and from collaboration with trusted, skilled and knowledgeable advisors.

Let’s talk about:

  • Creating a new and powerful case for support
  • Board development and increased engagement
  • Creating a winning annual campaign
  • Staff assessment and professional development
  • Actionable intelligence and research
  • Diversifying your philanthropic base of support
  • Building a stronger internal culture of philanthropy
  • Strengthening the link between communications and fundraising

Civil society, the social sector, and philanthropy are under significant attack in this country. We face massive challenges as organizations and institutions. And networks really matter. So does listening and collaboration. We can be your trusted partner for growth and impact. We’re used to working on unique and challenging projects. We’re not the cookie-cutter solution, we’re the problem solvers. 

Services

We are not traditional fundraising consultants. And we’re a good deal less expensive. Our work centers around the case, the strategy, the research and your goals. Whether that’s advocacy, donor communications, campaign strategy, or a strategic planning effort. Our work fits you – not the other way around.

CauseWired strengthens the efforts of our clients and their causes by creating an emotional connection with target audiences through your authentic story. Every communications effort should improve in-house skills and understanding. Every strategic plan should include realistic goals for programs and revenue.

Working with nonprofit organizations, foundations, individuals, companies and advocacy groups, we connect a community of voices for change. Our services include:

  • Strategic Planning
  • Development Plans
  • Campaign Strategy and Communications
  • Case Development and Research
  • Communications
  • Digital Media Strategy
  • Executive and Board Coaching

There is no master template for CauseWired services. Every assignment is unique because every client faces unique challenges and opportunities. You don’t want cookie-cutter “solutions” and we run a small communications firm because we don’t like delivering them.

Let’s talk.

We’re always interested to hear about a potential assignment, to discuss a challenge, to talk about an opportunity, or simply to ask a question. Drop us a line by email to tom <at> causewired.com or call 914.295.0006 today.

Private: News & Updates

Helping Nonprofits Navigate the Treacherous 2025 Waters

By Tom Watson and Audrey Levitin As consultants in a development consulting firm, we understand the profound challenges nonprofit organizations face during periods of political and economic uncertainty. The incoming Trump administration in 2025 brings with it a distinct set of challenges and potential threats to the nonprofit sector, including shifts in federal funding priorities, …

What We Tell Executive Directors: ‘You Need An Active and Engaged Board!’

By Audrey Levitin  Every non profit organization in the U.S. has a Board of Directors. Great organizations turn that obligation into one of their greatest assets.  The executive directors we work with often ask us: “Why isn’t my Board doing more?” To put it more bluntly than the EDs usually do, why isn’t a great board …