Heifer International
Background

Heifer International is the category-defining global development nonprofit, operating in 21 countries and supporting over 36 million families since 1944. Heifer works at the intersection of agriculture, economic empowerment, and community-led development — helping families achieve sustainable self-reliance on their own terms.

Objectives

Heifer wanted to move from traditional appeal-style video toward a documentary-grade, multi-country story library. The goal: fewer, better, longer pieces that hold viewers past the scroll, carry a celebrity host (Uzo Aduba) with editorial weight instead of vanity framing, and feed recurring-donor conversion funnels across international markets.

Implementation

We shipped documentary field production across three countries on one visual grammar. Honduras (Feb 2026): on-site in Comayagua with director Dustin Supencheck and founder Atdhe Trepca. Nigeria: the "Are You Happy" × Heifer campaign with Uzo Aduba — deployed as a guide inside real field scenes, not as a studio host. Kenya: production windowed around Heifer's readiness with consultant Kaelyn Randolph. Every piece was cut for where it was going to live — US Facebook, Nigeria WhatsApp, Kenya YouTube — because one master edit served to every market is how nonprofits waste impressions.

Results & Impact

Heifer remains under contract and actively renewing across Honduras, the Uzo Aduba campaign arc, and Kenya planning. The multi-country system is validated — three continents, one directorial voice, three local teams. Campaign libraries are sequenced for donor-acquisition funnels rather than one-off event spikes. Detailed view and donation-attribution metrics are reserved for direct client conversations under NDA.

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