Strategic Communications, Creative & Marketing
World-class creative for organizations that can’t afford to be ignored.
Why PILLAR
Senior talent. No hand-offs. No dead weight.
Most agencies are built around accounts. PILLAR is built around work. There are no junior teams passing deliverables up a chain, no layers of management between the client and the people actually doing the thinking and making.
PILLAR operates as a modern, distributed studio. Senior strategists, designers, writers, and producers, assembled around the engagement and released when the work is done. The result is a tighter relationship, faster decisions, and work that reflects exactly what was agreed to.
What we cover
- Strategy
- Messaging
- Brand
- Design
- Campaigns
- Web
- PR & earned media
- Content
- Executive communications coaching
Whether it’s a single focused deliverable or a full agency-of-record relationship, PILLAR builds the right team around the work. Only the work.
The work is the proof.
Bread for the World
Full creative and communications operation for a national advocacy organization.
Abide Network
Full-service agency support across strategy, creative, and production for a growing nonprofit.
Center for Public Justice
Research, strategy, and content production for a national policy campaign.
Three Roots International
Ongoing creative direction for community-led development work in Ethiopia.
Foundations Family Therapy
Strategic positioning, messaging, and implementation tools for a growing counseling practice.
Everything a senior creative team does.
Strategy & Messaging
Brand strategy, narrative development, messaging architecture, positioning, naming, audience research, voice and tone frameworks, and the foundational language every deliverable is built on.
Creative & Production
Creative direction, visual identity and brand systems, graphic design, web design and development, video production and direction, photography, print collateral, podcast production and editing, and the full range of creative output that makes an organization impossible to ignore.
Marketing & Communications
Campaign development, content strategy and production, social media strategy and execution, earned media and PR, thought leadership, grant writing and donor communications, executive communications coaching, and the execution that gets the right message in front of the right audience.
World-class. Every time. Every engagement.
Founder & CEO
Eddie
Kaufholz
Twenty years in rooms where the communication had to be right. Multi-sector creative director working across strategy, writing, design, podcasting, and executive coaching. Principal strategist on every PILLAR engagement. The person you talk to is the person doing the work.
Full bio →Let’s work together
The work matters. Let’s make sure it shows.
Whether you’re ready to start a project, curious about how PILLAR works, or want to get a sense of whether this is the right fit, this is the right place to start.
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