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Design and Communications
For Social Impact
Design and Communications
For Social Impact
Strengthening how organisations speak, write and visualise to boost their targets and impact.
Studio Subu focuses on solving communication challenges faced by organisations in the social impact space. We specialise in building creative solutions that are targeted towards accelerating their fundraising, partnership, org expansion, recruitment, and program delivery goals.
200+ orgs
Thematic Areas
Child Health & Safety
Youth Leadership
Health & Nutrition
Education
Women Empowerment
Gender Rights
Community Development
Vocational Training
Housing & Water
Road Safety
Aangan Trust
Akanksha Foundation
ATE Chandra Foundation
ATMA
By The Way — Parsi Kitchen
Cipla Foundation
Dalberg
Dasra
Forbes Marshall
Future School of Performing Arts
Global School Leaders
Google
Habitat For Humanity India
IDFC Institute
IDinsight
IMC Ladies Wing
India School Leadership Institute
ITeach Schools
Kautilya School of Public Policy
Leadership For Equity
Language Learning Foundation
Manndeshi Bank
Manndeshi Foundation
Mentor Me India
Parinaam Foundation
PVR Nest
Rangsutra
Save Life Foundation
Save The Children India
Seniority (RPG Group)
Seva Sadan Society
Simple Education Foundation
SNEHA Mumbai
Sriguruji Art Academy
Social Venture Partners
Teach For India
The Coach Crew
Toybank
Treelife Consulting
Ummeed
University Of Chicago
Villgro
Womanity Foundation
321 Education Foundation
Working with deep empathy and care.
How the studio works
We are a small team of researchers, designers and writers, doing targeted work to drive long-term impact. We take pride in designing solutions that are honest, practical and sustainable. We work closely with your team to study your program, and understand the behaviour and needs of all the people you work with. Our learnings help us build solutions that can improve their experiences and increase your impact.
We work on short, intensive execution sprints starting with a leg of research. This includes a combination of field visits to study the work on-ground, and interviews + workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
The learnings define a clear creative strategy for implementation. The building phase is iterative and highly inclusive. The stakeholders and beneficiaries are looped in at every stage. Projects end with a detailed training workshop to help organisations have clarity and control on how to use, adopt, and sustain the solutions. The studio takes complete ownership on all aspects of the project, from research, to writing, design, and project management.
Quick Tour
of things we do
What we Do
Brand Strengthening
Project
For Fundraising, Partnership,
and expansion
A 360 overhaul of the way your organisation writes, speaks and visualises information across teams with a focus on boosting your fundraising, partnership, org expansion and program delivery goals.
WHO'S IT FOR?
We will finalise a central location based on the sign-up list one week after registration closes
DURATION
10-16 Weeks
BSP
Impact
Documentation
Reports, Stories, Photos & Videos
A 360 overhaul of the way your organisation writes, speaks and visualises information across teams with a focus on boosting your fundraising, partnership, org expansion and program delivery goals.
WHO'S IT FOR?
We will finalise a central location based on the sign-up list one week after registration closes
DURATION
10-16 Weeks
Impact Documentation
Comms
Assist Plan
Annual Comms Strategy & Implementation Support
Bring us on board to wear the comms director's "cap" and orchestrate a high-impact action plan that's customised for your organisation.
WHO'S IT FOR?
We will finalise a central location based on the sign-up list one week after registration closes
DURATION
10-16 Weeks
Comms Assist Plan
We've designed training and capacity building programs to help everyone pick up the fundamentals of comms.
Capacity Building
The Blueprint
Project
1-1 Guided support to learn how to
self-execute a creative project
The Blueprint Project is project specific, customised 1-1 support where we train + build capacity within orgs to execute on a targeted project with tight timelines and bootstrapped resources.
WHO'S IT FOR?
This service is designed for organisations that are working with limited resources and budgets, but are keen to find a way to be guided to build powerful solutions. Ideal for young orgs that have at least 1-2 members in the team who can quickly up-skill and execute with our team's guidance.
DURATION
4-6 weeks
Submarine Conference
3-day bootcamp to learn foundational pillars of communications
Submarine Conference is a unique communications-focussed 3day bootcamp where we deep dive into frameworks, tools and best practices in communications that are targeted towards strengthening your brand presence, fundraising efforts, program impact and team culture. The bootcamp is structured to be a highly collaborative experience packed with workshops, brainstorms and group critique spaces.
WHO'S IT FOR?
Submarine is designed to fit the needs of NGOs of all sizes, and experience levels. Whether you have a bootstrapped 4-person team, or larger multi-city team, the processes and frameworks is flexible to adopt.
NEXT CONFERENCE DATES
October 11-13
Investing in communications is going to be a gamechanger for your org
Having a strong communication and design practice is the foundation for building high impact solutions, especially in the social impact space. It is critical for our market to see them beyond the conventional, demarcated roles/functions in a “comms team”.
It plays a critical role in almost all areas of an organisation’s work. It makes or breaks your fundraising efforts, the team culture, and influences the success of your program’s impact on ground to a large extent. It helps you create experiences that are more immersive, articulate, cohesive. Investing in it allows you to build a deeper andmore meaningful connection with your stakeholders, your internal teams and your end users.
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