Ugly and Wise

Marketing & Communications that make a difference.

We help charities grow their fundraising and services. We have experience in small volunteer-run charities as well as large institutional ones. We’ve worked in health care, universities, social services, advocacy organisations and more. We can make your fundraising better. We can reach more clients about your services. We know how to get people to believe in your cause.

Why Ugly and Wise? That’s a long story. But suffice to say that we think marketing communications is dominated by too much vanity and not enough brains. We don’t have perfect white smiles that shine like a million suns. We don’t play golf. We don’t promise the moon and deliver a few space rocks. We’d rather be ugly and get the job done.

We have worked extensively in child welfare, children’s mental health and autism services in Ontario, Canada. We know the many issues you face and we can help you face then. Issue management. Media crisis training and response. Foster parent recruitment. Autism services marketing. Volunteer recruitment.

We take projects large and small for clients of all sizes. Simple advice is always free for small charities (because that’s where we started). But we can also create big strategies, plans and more. There isn’t a challenge we can’t face.

We also do the small stuff. Need a video? We can do it. Need social media graphics? No problem. Want writing for a report or grant? Got that, too. Anyway you slice it, we can make you look better.

SEE SOME OF OUR WORK