Your mission is ambitious.
You do not have to carry all of it alone.
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Your mission
is ambitious.
You do not have to carry all of it alone.
What’s up?
Latest from the studio, the feed and the field
Big mission.Lean team.Long list.
The mission is growing. Expectations are growing. Your team cannot keep absorbing more specialized work.
Good organizations are not short on ideas. They are short on the time, systems and capacity needed to move those ideas forward.
That is where YAMM comes in.
We help turn “we should” into “it’s happening.”
How we can help
One partner.
Three ways to move the work.
Our expertise
Fundraising
Build the revenue behind the mission.
Create a more thoughtful, diversified and sustainable approach to grants, donors, partnerships and earned revenue.
Communications
Give your work a voice people recognize.
Clarify your message, strengthen your presence and create stories and campaigns that help people understand why your work matters.
Innovation
Build what the sector is missing.
Turn recurring frustrations and promising ideas into practical tools, platforms and new ways of working.
How we work with you
Fractional, not partial.
You do not need to hire an entire department to access the expertise your mission needs. YAMM combines senior leadership with the fundraisers, writers, designers, researchers, filmmakers and specialists needed to carry the work forward.
Fractional Fundraising
Leadership, strategy and implementation that become part of your organization.
Explore Fractional Fundraising →Fractional Communications
An embedded communications lead, supported by a wider creative and production team.
Explore Fractional Communications →One relationship. More of the right capabilities. Far fewer impossible job descriptions.
Proof of work
The company we keep says a lot.
We work alongside organisations carrying ambitious missions — and stay connected to the communities that keep us learning.
Community networks
We are proud members and fans within these networks. This is where we learn and get inspired.
- 01Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
- 02Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF)
- 03Catalyst Now
- 04Centre for Social Innovation (CSI)
- 05ImpactUP
- 06Future of Good
- 07Idealist
- 08Palestine Impact Collective
Work that moved
A strategy matters when something changes.
Reweaving Attention Around Women’s Stories
Eight short workshop videos supported by a longer compilationA consistent and emotionally clear return to social mediaRenewed engagement and anticipation for the exhibitionWomen’s stories extended beyond the physical event
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Growing a Brand Where Every Visit Gives Back
Mission moved from the margins of the story to its centreA social voice led by personality, warmth and communityRecurring formats: dog spotlights, behind-the-bowl, rescue storiesSocial responsibility built into the value proposition, not an occasional campaign
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Bringing Communication and Fundraising Closer Together
10+ tools and templates the team still usesA donor event designed and run in-houseShared language across two teamsA case for support tied to impact reporting
View the case study →Start here
Useful before we ever meet.
Sometimes you need a partner. Sometimes you need one good place to begin.
Which kind of support do we need?
A short diagnostic for finding the expertise that could make the greatest difference.
Start the diagnostic →Funding opportunities open now
A regularly updated selection of grants and opportunities for nonprofits.
See what is open →Fundraising Readiness Check
Find the strengths, gaps and risks within your fundraising program.
Use the framework →Ethical Storytelling Framework
Tell stories that move people without compromising dignity.
Download the framework →From Problem to Practical Tool
Turn a recurring frustration into an idea your organization can test.
Try the canvas →No discovery call required.
Thinking
Notes from the work
Resilience in Diaspora Communities: Navigating Ongoing Crisis and Coping Through Connection – A Collective Voice
As diaspora nonprofit professionals, we often find ourselves living in a state of constant tension. We watch crises unfold in our homelands while trying to build stable lives and programmes in a new country. Trauma models we were taught tend to assume a crisis will end and recovery will return us to “normal.” Our lived experience is different: the crisis continues, grief renews itself, and a sense of safety never fully takes hold. A group of us gathered in an Impact Lab (hosted by Yamm Services) to develop a framework that could help us and other community leaders respond more effectively. This model pairs the key realities we face with the ways we respond. Our insights draw on trauma‑informed practice, cross‑cultural psychology and community resilience research, but they remain grounded in the lived experiences we share as immigrants and refugees.
Beyond ‘Canadian Experience’: Why Canada’s Most Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving and How to Fix It
Donors don’t want perfection; they want discipline. Learn why sharing failure stories builds deep trust and how to use the “We Tried, We Learned” framework.
The Trust Equation: Why Your Next Great Story Should Be About Failure
Donors don’t want perfection; they want discipline. Learn why sharing failure stories builds deep trust and how to use the “We Tried, We Learned” framework.
YAMM began on our second day in Toronto.
We arrived in a new city, carrying decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, communications, journalism, filmmaking and community work.
We built YAMM from a belief that experience travels, different perspectives make the work stronger and starting again does not mean starting from zero.
We believe in hope, too. The practical kind. The kind with a plan, a deadline and people willing to do the work.
Bring us the thing that needs to move.
A clear brief. A tangled problem. A promising idea currently living in three spreadsheets, six voice notes and someone’s head.
We can start there.