Marketing, Fundraising & Strategy for Mission-Driven Organizations

Your story
deserves
an audience.

The audience is the point.

Audience. Donors. A mission that has to hold while the field shifts around it. You’re already doing hero’s work. Unity Vertex helps you find the way through.

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The Approach

The field is shifting.
The mission hasn’t.

Arts organizations, nonprofits, and mission-driven businesses are navigating a field that keeps changing its shape. Funding models shift. Audiences fragment. The tools keep multiplying. The mission — the reason any of this matters — stays exactly where it’s always been.

Unity Vertex brings 25 years of experience in marketing, fundraising, branding, and organizational strategy to help you hold the mission steady while you navigate what’s changed. The tactics change. The work doesn’t.

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25+
Years in the field
American Marketing Association — recognized rebrand

"I get more marketing value talking to Matt for one hour than I get from other experts in a month."

Todd Salovey — Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival

What We Do

The tools to tell
a better story.

Every service is built around one question: what do you want people to feel? Everything else — strategy, tactics, tools, team — follows from that.

01
Strategic Marketing
You’ve built something worth seeing. The work is mapping the path between it and the audiences already looking for what you offer — through campaign strategy, audience research, and season positioning that starts with who’s actually in the room.
02
Fundraising & Development
You have a story worth supporting. We help you tell it the way it deserves to be told, find the people who need to hear it, and keep close the ones who already believe.
03
AI Strategy & Standards
You’re already making decisions about AI, whether you’ve named them or not. We help you map where it belongs in your organization, set standards that reflect your values, and put the right tools to work without compromising the mission.
04
Brand & Rebrand
Your organization already means something to the people who know you. A rebrand is the work of uncovering that meaning and making it visible to everyone else — through community research, organizational clarity, and design discipline.
05
Organizational Strategy
Every organization has thresholds. Founder to professional. Small to scaled. Institution to something new. We work alongside you through the crossings — helping strategy, structure, and story catch up to the work you’re doing now.
06
Speaking, Training & Coaching
Keynotes, workshops, and coaching for teams thinking out loud about storytelling, audience, mission, and what the current moment is asking of them.
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Case Studies

The proof is
in the program.

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San Diego Opera performance
Award-Winning Rebrand
San Diego Opera
San Diego Repertory Theatre
Subscription & Ticketing Turnaround
San Diego Repertory Theatre
Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival
From Defunct to Thriving
Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival

Testimonials

What clients
actually say.

"Matt provided interim marketing leadership and evaluated our marketing operations, providing a clear plan for staffing the department more effectively. He introduced innovative marketing strategies that had a measurable, positive impact on our ticket sales and helped onboard our new Marketing Director to set them up for success."

Richard Russell — General Director, Symphony Orchestra of Augusta

"Matt Graber is a respected leader and innovator in arts marketing and fundraising. His ability to seamlessly integrate data-driven insights with creative strategies is impressive. His rebrand work for San Diego Opera earned a top American Marketing Association branding award."

Kirsty Nunez — President & Chief Research Strategist, Q2 Insights, Inc.

"I get more marketing value talking to Matt for one hour than I get from other experts in a month!"

Todd Salovey — Founding Artistic Director, Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival

"Matthew is a sharp, practical, and strategic thinker — a real asset to marketing, especially arts marketing campaigns."

Joseph Yoshitomi — SVP & General Manager, Broadway Dallas

Ready to find your
way through?

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