FRACTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS
YOUR TEAM’S
COMMUNICATIONS TEAM.
Chorus plans and executes ongoing communications your organization needs on a reliable schedule and in your voice.
Does this feel familiar?
The Newsletter?
“It’s running late again… oh and now it is out of date.”
Social Media?
“It is always a last-minute emergency.”
Annual Report?
“Wait, when did I post last?”
Website Updates?
“It is mostly the correct information still, right?”
Donor Emails?
“Yeah they need to hear from me but they also need me to do what they are giving towards.”
The Blog?
“We have great stories to tell but no time to tell them.”
We know the feeling! We’ve been there.
We’ve been communication directors, board members, pastors, and the person that communications wasn’t the job of but landed on us anyway.
That’s why we started chorus.
We know and share your frustration and we know communicating the mission always seems to be what suffers.
Communicating your mission is too important.
We come in and learn your mission, your voice, and your needs all with the goal of internal harmony and external clarity. We become insiders, your team’s communications team. Then…
Chorus gets it handled.
The needs of every partner we work with are different because your mission and your teams are different.
We meet you where you are and then go from there.
What we handle
We come alongside and help organize what is being communicated, to whom, through which channel, and when it needs to happen.
The Communications Calendar
Newsletters, email campaigns, social content, writing, design, presentation slides, and the other pieces that return every week or month.
Recurring Communications
Appeals, launches, annual reports, events, sermon series, donor campaigns, and other concentrated communications needs.
Campaigns & Seasonal Work
How we partner
We know each of our partners’ communications problem has a shape. Our goal is to work out which one is yours and meet you there with the right kind of partnership.
Yes, our name is Chorus. Yes, we have cute musical themed partner levels to match.
We Support
We Carry
We Lead
Sometimes you don’t know where to start or need clarity before doing anything long-term. In Comms Camp we take the time over 3 months to assess your communications process, needed channels, direction, and then we hand you a rhythm you can run with or we can do it for you under a new partner level. It’s up to you!
Comms Camp
You may have the time to do the needed communications work but don’t have the mental bandwidth to stay on top of it. With Accompanist, we help keep everything straight, organized, while you still carry most of the work but we make sure it doesn’t fall through the cracks and help with some of the tedious work.
Accompanist
You may not have a lot of channels of communication you are running but the truth is you need someone else to carry them. That’s where we begin with the Soloist, we come in and carry a heavy or a couple of light rhythms for you week, month, quarter in and out. What we need from you is to get us the right information and to sign off. You will also get a weekly 30min strategy call.
Soloist
Duet builds on Soloist in adding more capacity for carrying more communication rhythms while also adding the option to add light project work to the partnership. Those website updates? The comms plan for the one-off event? Planning a new comms channel? That can all be carried with Duet.
Duet
Our Ensemble partners are organizations that just need to know their communications are going to be cared for and done well. We carry everything, run more than one project at once, and own the arc of the year: what gets said, in what order, to whom, and what we stop doing because it isn't earning its place. We embed like a communications team.
Ensemble
You might be an Executive Director, Owner, or Pastor and you have been making all the communications decisions and managing the communications team but it is beginning to take up too much of your time but you don’t have the budget for a new hire. That’s where a Conductor can come in and serve as a fractional senior leader and can range from overseeing direction to managing your team’s work.
COnductor
You have a gap in leadership because of a transition or leave of a senior communications leader but you still need leadership you can depend on to fill the gap that is exactly what a Session with Chorus is for. We fill the gap of leadership with a senior leader until your leader gets back or you have hired in your new one. Then we hand it all off.
Session
We carry the Chorus.
You write the verses.
You could never just take a chorus out of a song, it is what makes it recognizable and gets stuck in people’s head. But it is the verses that hold the deeper creativity, the edge of the song, that makes the chorus that much more impactful.
We make sure the chorus is strong so that you can do what you do best in the verses.
If you want to partner to get internal harmony and external clarity for your communications:
Let’s talk
Frequently asked Questions
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Chorus provides ongoing communications support without requiring you to build an entire department in-house. You get writing, design, coordination, and communications judgment in the amounts your organization actually needs and at the fraction of the cost.
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Not necessarily. Chorus can take responsibility for one recurring communication, several connected pieces, or a broader communications rhythm. Before we begin, we agree on a specific list of work and a clear line between what Chorus holds and what stays with you.
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Sometimes hiring is the right answer. But one communications hire brings one person’s skill set, while most organizations need writing, design, coordination, and strategic judgment in different amounts throughout the month.
Chorus gives you access to that range without requiring you to build the entire function around one person’s availability or tenure.
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Yes. Some partners need Chorus to function as their communications team. Others already have staff, freelancers, or vendors and need us to hold particular parts of the work. Either way, we define the roles clearly so work isn’t duplicated or left between people.
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Recurring work may include newsletters, email campaigns, social content, writing, design, presentation slides, content calendars, donor communications, and other pieces that return every week or month.
Chorus can also support campaigns, launches, annual reports, appeals, and seasonal communications within an ongoing relationship.
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Your team provides direction, information, connection to the right people, access to your systems, and timely approvals. Chorus owns the agreed-upon schedule, creates the work, organizes feedback, and keeps each piece moving.
Our goal is that you are “winning” in communications to everyone you serve so we like to embed into your current software and systems so it doesn’t look like an outside agency.
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We study what your organization has already said, listen to how your leaders speak, and pay attention to the language your audiences recognize. We document what we learn and apply it across the work.
Because the relationship is ongoing, your team spends less time re-explaining the organization every time another communication comes around.
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We are always open to one-time projects but we love building partnerships around ongoing communications relationships. If you have a project that needs to be done, please reach out!
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We talk about it. Refining the work Chorus already holds may fit within the existing partnership. Adding a new channel, campaign, or recurring responsibility may require a partnership change. Our goal is to meet your needs the best we can.
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Pricing is based on the communications work Chorus agrees to hold. After we understand what your organization needs and your budget, we prepare a proposal that clearly names the work, responsibilities, and cost.
We’ve been in the budget seat of mission-driven organizations and know the need for every dollar to stretch as far as possible.
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Chorus is a 989Group Partner Company created specifically to provide ongoing, fractional communications support for churches, nonprofits, and mission-driven companies.
The name and model are new; the experience behind them is not. Chorus grows from 989Group’s established experience in strategy, branding, campaigns, storytelling, and creative communications for mission-driven organizations.
989Group continues to help organizations with larger strategic and project-based work, specializing in branding, creative, messaging, development. Chorus was built to hold the communications work that returns every week and every month.
Chorus represents the growing 989Group ecosystem of creative intelligence to serve mission-driven organizations with strategy, creative, and solutions. Chorus forms from a shared commitment to helping organizations communicate their mission clearly and consistently.