Many organizations spend countless hours on newsletters, social media, fundraising campaigns, board meetings, events, and community outreach.
Yet they still hear things like:
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"I didn't know you did that."
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"I didn't know you needed volunteers."
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"I didn't know that program existed."
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"I didn't know how to help."
Those moments usually indicate a communications challenge rather than a reflection on the quality of the work.
Through keynotes, workshops, and training sessions, BowerComm helps nonprofits, community foundations, associations, and community-focused organizations communicate more clearly, tell stronger stories, activate ambassadors, and build support for their mission.
Whether you're planning a nonprofit conference, community foundation event, leadership summit, board retreat, or association meeting, our goal is simple: provide practical ideas your audience can put to work immediately.
Available Formats:
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Keynote Presentations
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Conference Breakout Sessions
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Interactive Workshops
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Board Retreats
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Leadership Trainings
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Half-Day Intensives
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Bailey Ramsey
Strategic Communications Consultant | Speaker
Before joining BowerComm in 2016, Bailey Ramsey worked in community development and served as the marketing director for a nonprofit providing disability support services. Having worked both inside nonprofit organizations and alongside hundreds of mission-driven leaders, she understands firsthand the challenges organizations face when trying to communicate their value, engage supporters, and build momentum around their mission.
Bailey's presentations combine practical communication strategies with an understanding of the day-to-day realities nonprofit and community leaders face. Audiences appreciate her relatable style, thoughtful insights, and focus on ideas that can be implemented immediately.
Trusted by organizations across the country
25+ Years
Communications and marketing experience
Hundreds
Of organizations served
Since 2010
Helping organizations communicate more effectively
Nationwide
Clients, conferences, and training engagements
Featured Keynotes & Conference Sessions
Choose from our list of prepared presentations and workshops below. We also do custom topics and workshops tailored to your specific situation—contact us for details.
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Every community has people doing important work. The question is whether enough people know about it.
Strong communities depend on organizations that communicate clearly about what they do, why it matters, and how people can get involved. When communication is unclear, participation suffers. When organizations communicate well, people are more likely to support initiatives, attend events, volunteer, donate, advocate, and collaborate.
This keynote explores the connection between communication, trust, participation, and community progress while providing practical ideas organizations can use to strengthen their visibility and impact.
Ideal for: Community foundations, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, nonprofits, leadership programs, and community-focused conferences.
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Many organizations are doing remarkable work but remain largely invisible to the people who would benefit from it, support it, or champion it.
In this session, participants explore the four communication pitfalls that often prevent mission-driven organizations from gaining visibility and support. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of why important messages get overlooked and what organizations can do to become more visible and better understood.
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Most board members care deeply about the organization they serve. What many lack is the confidence and language needed to talk about the mission effectively in their everyday conversations.
This session provides practical strategies for helping board members become stronger ambassadors. Participants will learn how to equip boards with clear messaging, simple communication tools, and realistic expectations that make ambassador engagement easier and more effective.
Many organizations approach communication as a series of disconnected activities—a newsletter here, a social media campaign there, and a fundraising appeal when it's needed.
The Awareness Engine introduces BowerComm's practical framework for building a more intentional communication system. Participants will learn how audience understanding, storytelling, visibility, messaging, and reinforcement work together to create stronger communication over time.
Organizations often begin branding projects by discussing logos, colors, websites, and taglines. The most successful brand initiatives start much earlier.
This session explores the foundational work that should happen before a rebrand, website redesign, or major campaign begins. Participants will learn how audience insights, organizational alignment, positioning, and messaging contribute to stronger brands and better long-term results.
Many organizations feel pressure to constantly create content. The result is often more posting but not necessarily more engagement.
This practical session focuses on using social media strategically rather than simply keeping the content calendar full. Participants will learn how to create content that builds credibility, shares meaningful stories, and encourages action from the audiences they care about most.
Recruiting and retaining great employees and volunteers has become one of the biggest challenges facing mission-driven organizations.
This session explores how organizations can communicate their culture, purpose, values, and identity in ways that attract people who are aligned with their mission. Participants will learn practical approaches for strengthening recruitment messaging, volunteer engagement, and organizational reputation.
Many organizations spend significant time generating awareness but struggle to convert awareness into meaningful engagement.
This session introduces a practical framework for helping people move from first hearing about an organization to becoming participants, volunteers, donors, advocates, or ambassadors. Participants will learn how to identify audience pathways and create communication strategies that encourage deeper involvement over time.
Interactive Workshops
The Difference-Makers Method
A 12-Month Storytelling System for Building Awareness and Support
Organizations often collect stories without a clear plan for how to use them. The Difference-Makers Method provides a practical approach for identifying, developing, and sharing stories throughout the year.
Participants will learn a repeatable storytelling process designed to help nonprofits and community-focused organizations strengthen visibility, demonstrate impact, and build stronger connections with supporters.
The Storytelling Content Lab
Turn One Story Into Multiple Communication Assets
Most organizations are sitting on powerful stories they haven't fully developed.
In this hands-on workshop, participants bring a real story from their organization and learn how to transform it into multiple communication pieces, including social media content, website stories, email features, donor communications, and conversation starters.
Participants leave with usable content and a process they can replicate with future stories.
Build Your Brand Foundation
Strong brands are built on clarity and consistency.
This interactive workshop explores how audience profiles, brand archetypes, positioning, messaging, and organizational identity work together to shape a brand that people understand, remember, and trust.
Participants leave with practical tools for strengthening the foundation that supports all future marketing and communication efforts.
Half-Day Training Experience
Build Your Awareness Engine
A Hands-On Strategic Communications Workshop
This intensive workshop guides participants through the key elements of a stronger communication system.
Together, participants work through audience identification, messaging development, storytelling, visibility planning, engagement strategies, and communication reinforcement. The workshop combines instruction with practical application so organizations leave with ideas they can begin implementing immediately.
This workshop works particularly well for nonprofit associations, community foundation networks, leadership cohorts, chambers of commerce, and groups of organizations looking to strengthen communication capacity.
Featured Keynotes & Conference Sessions
Choose from our list of prepared presentations and workshops below. We also do custom topics and workshops tailored to your specific situation—contact us for details.
Strong Communities Need Strong Communications
Every community has people doing important work. The question is whether enough people know about it.
Strong communities depend on organizations that communicate clearly about what they do, why it matters, and how people can get involved. When communication is unclear, participation suffers. When organizations communicate well, people are more likely to support initiatives, attend events, volunteer, donate, advocate, and collaborate.
This keynote explores the connection between communication, trust, participation, and community progress while providing practical ideas organizations can use to strengthen their visibility and impact.
Ideal for: Community foundations, chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, nonprofits, leadership programs, and community-focused conferences.
The Awareness Gap: Why Great Organizations Still Struggle to Be Seen
Many organizations are doing remarkable work but remain largely invisible to the people who would benefit from it, support it, or champion it.
In this session, participants explore the four communication pitfalls that often prevent mission-driven organizations from gaining visibility and support. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of why important messages get overlooked and what organizations can do to become more visible and better understood.
Activating Your Board as Ambassadors
Most board members care deeply about the organization they serve. What many lack is the confidence and language needed to talk about the mission effectively in their everyday conversations.
This session provides practical strategies for helping board members become stronger ambassadors. Participants will learn how to equip boards with clear messaging, simple communication tools, and realistic expectations that make ambassador engagement easier and more effective.
The Awareness Engine
Many organizations approach communication as a series of disconnected activities—a newsletter here, a social media campaign there, and a fundraising appeal when it's needed.
The Awareness Engine introduces BowerComm's practical framework for building a more intentional communication system. Participants will learn how audience understanding, storytelling, visibility, messaging, and reinforcement work together to create stronger communication over time.
Before the Brand: Align Before You Design
Organizations often begin branding projects by discussing logos, colors, websites, and taglines. The most successful brand initiatives start much earlier.
This session explores the foundational work that should happen before a rebrand, website redesign, or major campaign begins. Participants will learn how audience insights, organizational alignment, positioning, and messaging contribute to stronger brands and better long-term results.
Post Less. Matter More.
Many organizations feel pressure to constantly create content. The result is often more posting but not necessarily more engagement.
This practical session focuses on using social media strategically rather than simply keeping the content calendar full. Participants will learn how to create content that builds credibility, shares meaningful stories, and encourages action from the audiences they care about most.
Why People Want to Work There
Recruiting and retaining great employees and volunteers has become one of the biggest challenges facing mission-driven organizations.
This session explores how organizations can communicate their culture, purpose, values, and identity in ways that attract people who are aligned with their mission. Participants will learn practical approaches for strengthening recruitment messaging, volunteer engagement, and organizational reputation.
Building the Participation Pipeline
Many organizations spend significant time generating awareness but struggle to convert awareness into meaningful engagement.
This session introduces a practical framework for helping people move from first hearing about an organization to becoming participants, volunteers, donors, advocates, or ambassadors. Participants will learn how to identify audience pathways and create communication strategies that encourage deeper involvement over time.
Organizations We Serve
Community Foundations
Nonprofits
Associations
Chambers of Commerce
Economic Development Organizations
Educational Institutions
Community Development Organizations
Volunteer Organizations
Local Government and Public Agencies
Leadership Development Programs
Why Event Planners Choose BowerComm
Our presentations are built around the challenges mission-driven organizations face every day.
Rather than focusing on theory, we focus on practical ideas, proven approaches, and real-world examples drawn from years of experience working alongside nonprofits, community foundations, associations, chambers, and community organizations.
Participants leave with strategies they can use, language they can adapt, and ideas they can implement immediately.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Lori Bower
Founder, BowerComm | Strategic Communications Consultant | Speaker
For more than 25 years, Lori Bower has helped organizations move beyond random acts of marketing and build communication strategies that support real organizational goals. She has worked with community foundations, nonprofits, chambers of commerce, educational institutions, manufacturers, and public organizations across the country to strengthen messaging, engage stakeholders, and increase participation.
Lori is known for making complex communication challenges practical and approachable. Her presentations blend strategic thinking, real-world examples, and actionable ideas that audiences can put into practice immediately.
