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What sports nonprofit marketing actually covers.

Everything a nonprofit powered by sport needs to get found, hold attention, and build the partnerships that fund the work.

Current work: supporting USA Judo's digital growth. Read about the engagement

What we do

Six core services. Three in support.

The core of every engagement is search engine optimization, AI search visibility, Google Ad Grant management, email marketing and automations, Meta ads, and social content. Web design, branding and sponsorship development support that work when an engagement needs them.

Team sheet

Six core · Three supporting

Core services

  • Search engine optimization
  • AI search visibility
  • Google Ad Grant management
  • Email marketing and automations
  • Meta ads
  • Social content
01SEO

Search engine optimization

We work on being found in Google: the technical foundation, the structured data, and the content that give a page a chance to rank for what people actually search, whether they are looking for a program to join or a cause to support. Rankings are set by the search engines, not by us, so we report on what moved rather than promising positions.

Includes

  • Keyword and search-intent research
  • Program pages people can find locally
  • Internal linking and site architecture

Search engine optimization for sports nonprofits

02AI

AI search visibility

Supporters, donors, and nonprofit leaders can now encounter organizations through AI-generated answers as well as traditional search results. We make sure your organization and programs are described clearly and consistently enough for those systems to understand you, and we check what they actually say. Whether an assistant cites you is its decision; what we control is the quality of what it has to draw on.

Includes

  • A baseline of what AI assistants say about you
  • Consistent organization and program details
  • Structured data and question-led content

AI search visibility for sports nonprofits

04EML

Email marketing and automations

We build the email systems that keep people coming back: registration reminders and re-enrollment for the families you serve, and welcome flows, post-gift follow-up and re-engagement for supporters. A calendar mapped to your season, so people hear from you when it matters.

Includes

  • Platform migration and list hygiene
  • Registration and re-enrollment flows
  • Donor follow-up and appeal sequences

Email marketing for sports nonprofits

05META

Meta ads

Facebook and Instagram campaigns for the moments that matter: registration windows, camps, events, volunteer drives and campaigns. Audiences built around where your participants and supporters are, and results measured against completed sign-ups and gifts, not likes.

Includes

  • Pixel and conversion tracking setup
  • Registration, event and volunteer campaigns
  • Policy checks for ads about social issues

Meta ads for sports nonprofits

06SOC

Social content

We run social the way each platform actually rewards: native formats, hooks that stop the scroll, and a mix built around where your community really is. Content that shows families what a session looks like and shows supporters what their help does, tied to your season.

Includes

  • A content calendar mapped to your season
  • Short-form video and event capture
  • Community management and inbound replies

Social media for sports nonprofits

Supporting capabilities

Web design and branding when the core engagement requires them, and sponsorship development as a secondary capability.

WEB

Web design and development

We build websites that convert, not just display: mobile-first, fast, with donation flows engineered for completion and the structured data that lets Google and AI assistants understand who you are. A foundation built to handle real traffic before any campaigns turn on.

Includes

  • Redesign or a new build from scratch
  • Page speed and Core Web Vitals
  • Accessibility and mobile QA

Web design and development for sports nonprofits

BRD

Branding

We shape how a sports nonprofit shows up: a clear identity and message that makes donors and sponsors take you seriously. Positioning and brand assets built around your mission, so the credibility that lands partnerships is there before the conversation starts.

Includes

  • Naming, logo, and visual system
  • Message hierarchy and boilerplate
  • Sponsor and grant-ready one-pagers

Branding for sports nonprofits

SPN

Sponsorship development

We build the sponsorship offer and run the outreach: tiered structures priced against your actual reach, a prospect list built around real mission alignment, and follow-up run with the discipline of a sales process. Whether a given business says yes is theirs to decide; what we control is that the offer is clear, the targeting is sensible, and the follow-up happens.

Includes

  • Prospect research and target lists
  • Sponsorship decks and proposals
  • PR and earned media

Sponsorship development for sports nonprofits

Where to start

We recommend an order. We don't enforce one.

These services work best in a particular sequence, and we will always tell you what we would do first and why. But it is your organization. If you want to start somewhere else, that is where we start.

The one thing we push back on

Non-negotiable

Sending people to a website that cannot hold them. Before you scale anything, the site has to do two jobs.

01
HOLD

Stay fast and usable when a good month multiplies your traffic.

02
CAPTURE

Capture the people who arrive, so you can reach them again.

What an uncaptured season costs

ONE BIG SEASONSEASON 1SEASON 2SEASON 3SEASON 4DONOR BASE
No capture systemWith oneIllustrative. The shape of the pattern, not a dataset.

That second job is where we see the damage. Sports nonprofits have uneven years. A strong season, a milestone campaign, or a moment that travels brings a wave of first-time visitors and first-time donors. When nothing is in place to capture and re-engage them, that wave leaves and does not come back. The next year starts over, and the one after starts lower. A slow decline is rarely one bad year. It is usually several good ones that were never followed up.

Ready to talk about your cause?

30-minute diagnostic call. No pitch deck. Just an honest read on where you stand.