We understand the unique needs of faith-based and mission-first organizations and offer specialized communication support tailored to your context.
More than 175 years of collective experience serving organizations doing good empowers us to deftly navigate a fast-changing, AI-shaped landscape — staying ahead of the trends, threats and opportunities that affect your mission.
With a wide network and comprehensive perspective, we serve as a valuable strategic asset, connecting, advocating and protecting our clients effectively.
We offer a range of services to create a holistic communications experience using a coordinated multichannel approach, executing rigorous brand management along the way.
Beyond delivering best-in-class thinking, service and results, our team shares a deep passion for greater missions, aligning our hearts and minds with those of our clients.
We believe that if it is for good, it should be exceptional. Let's advance your mission together.
We cherish wisdom and seek to incorporate it into our internal business practices and client work.
We strive to give clients an extraordinary experience and exceptional work product.
We are always active, learning, growing and moving forward.
We know culture and communications are more dynamic than ever, so we are flexible and adapt.
We speak truth in love to one another, our clients and the culture.
We believe that a warm sun removes a jacket better than a strong wind.
We know that a divided team will not stand. We must stay reconciled and unified on the major points.
We keep people at the center of every story–ours and yours.
We believe life is a journey of learning and development, and recognize that every person has something to teach us—often about ourselves.
Refine, Promote, Protect. We refine, promote and protect your brand, leading to more influence, funding, awareness and engagement.
Extending Capabilities. We bolster your internal team and extend your capabilities to help you increase your impact and exceed your goals.
Outside Counselors. We are seasoned and objective outside counselors, able to pressure-test your thinking, strategies and tactics.
Benchmarked Rates. We benchmark our rates and intentionally keep them 20% below the industry in recognition and support of those we serve. We also donate up to 10% of your total retainer (in professional time) once a standard retainer has been fully utilized.
Unmatched Experience. We have more experience than any group in the country serving faith-based organizations. While other firms may have a few faith specialists, we have 14 with more than 175 years of collective experience serving faith-based causes, leaders and organizations.
Offense and Defense. Today’s communications landscape rewards those who proactively build brand footprint and mindshare rather than just react to it. We play offense through human channels — earned media, influencers, leader platforms, live events and staff activation — with AI optimization making sure the story is found and repeated. And when your hardest day comes, we play defense: seasoned crisis counsel protecting everything you have built.
Future-Proofed Comms. We work to future-proof your comms. We stay on top of the latest trends and equip brands to maximize their footprint in the vehicles and platforms that matter most.
Alignment. We are solely focused on serving faith-based and mission-first people and organizations, and we share your deeper goals, giving you a partnership with unparalleled mind and heart alignment.
An Entire Team. You get a team, not just an individual. We love freelancers, but they are limited. By utilizing an agency, you receive the benefit of an entire team’s experience, thinking, network and availability. You also benefit from more sophisticated systems, software and services that larger groups can provide.
Strategic Wisdom. After working with more than 60 faith-based organizations, our team has seen it all and employs this hard-earned wisdom for your strategic advantage.
The collaboration with the Guardian team transcended beyond completing tasks to having an accessible, strategic business partner that was dependable, reliable and understood our ethos. After several months, the engagements seemed so seamless that it felt more like working with peers and colleagues.
Fourteen strong, we offer more than 175 years of collective experience serving faith-based leaders and organizations in a communications capacity. Our staff is among the most experienced in our niche and is passionate about putting their knowledge to use in service of your goals. While headquartered in Atlanta, members of our team live in Austin, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tampa, giving us regional coverage to serve clients local to those areas.
If you believe you would make our team stronger, we would like to hear from you.
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