We record your staff and beneficiaries over video call, direct the session ourselves, and cut it into short videos. No shoot day. No crew. No travel. Every ED, comms lead and development director we talk to has stories worth telling and no way to film them. Book a time below and a real editor gets started on your first video. Your first session and first video are free. No contract. No credit card.
Every organization we talk to has the same stories: the person whose life your program changed, the volunteer who has shown up every week for nine years, the program officer who explains the work better than your website does. The stories aren't the problem. You have more of those than you can use. The problem is that nobody has ever pointed a camera at them.
The story your director tells at every board meeting. The person you serve whose thank-you would move any donor. The staff member who can explain your whole model in two minutes. All of it lives in people's heads and none of it is on camera.
Nobody on your team has a free afternoon, let alone the weeks it takes to scope a shoot, hire a crew and get everyone in the same room on the same day.
Your comms person is also your grant writer, your event planner and, on Tuesdays, your IT department. Making video is the thing that always slides to next quarter.
So the year-end appeal goes out with a stock photo and three paragraphs of text. The impact report becomes a PDF. The stories stay in people's heads. And next year you have the same conversation all over again.
Here's the uncomfortable math. A produced video runs $5,000 to $15,000 once you count crew, travel and a shoot day, so it gets booked once a year or not at all. That's not a storytelling problem. That's an access problem. And it's the one thing we fix.
You don't need a crew or a shoot day. You need someone to get your people on a video call, ask the right questions, record it properly and cut it into content your donors will actually stop for. That's the entire service. Here's how it works.
Pick a time and tell us who should be on it: a staff member, a volunteer, someone you serve. We send simple setup instructions beforehand. A laptop or a phone is all anyone needs.
We run the session, ask the questions and record it on our end in post-ready quality. Then a real editor cuts it into a finished video and sends it back. No invoice. No card on file. You see exactly what one session produces before you decide anything.
For $995 a month you get unlimited edit requests from everything we record: social clips, donor videos, impact stories, testimonials. As many as your team can post.
A single 40-minute conversation can become a sustainer thank-you, three Reels, a newsletter clip, an impact-report segment and a recruiting video. Here's what we typically pull out of one recorded session:
Since Are You Happy hit a million followers and raised $60,000 for a special-needs school bus, we've been cutting stories for nonprofits, foundations and NGOs. A few numbers from that work:
Results from productions and social campaigns we ran for these organizations. Same editors, same playbook, now pointed at sessions we record with you.
You have three options. Two of them are what nonprofits usually do. One of them is why this page exists.
That's less than a part-time editor, for a team that has told stories for the nonprofits on this page.
Book a video call. We'll direct the session, record it and edit your first video, free, so you can see exactly what one hour produces before you spend a dollar. If you don't love it, you owe us nothing. If you do, we keep going. Either way, you'll finally have your people on camera.
Yes. One session we direct and record, and one finished, post-ready video cut from it. No invoice, no card on file, no fine print. It's how we show you what a session can do instead of telling you.
A laptop or a phone, a quiet room and decent light. We send setup instructions beforehand and record on our end in post-ready quality. You don't buy or install anything.
That's most people. We direct the session and ask the questions, so nobody has to perform or memorize a script. We'll walk you through it on your call.
Any edit from what we record: social clips, donor videos, impact-report segments, testimonials, captions, and resized versions for every platform. Send requests as you need them and we work through them continuously.
Book it anyway. We test the setup before we start and work with the room, the light and the connection you have.
You do. It's your people and your story. Post it, send it to donors, drop it in the annual report.
No. It's $995 a month for as long as it's working for you, and the first session and video cost nothing.
Every month you wait, another appeal goes out without a face in it, another report goes out as a PDF, and your donors keep scrolling past someone else's story. Book a call this week. We'll direct the session and send back your first video, free.
P.S. The staff member with the best story on your team may not be there next year. The volunteer everyone quotes will move on. The best time to record your people was last year. The second-best time is this week.
Two details and you can pick a time.
Rough answers are fine. We'll dig in together on the call.
