As one of the few firms in the region focusing exclusively on nonprofits, we believe M Creative offers a unique profile to our clients.
Our creative solutions offer a well-balanced mix of strategy and design sensibilities. Our core competencies include communication strategy, key message development and content creation, brand identity design, print design, digital design, fundraising collateral, and traditional advertising.
How We’re Different
30-Year Nonprofit Heritage
Having worked with nonprofits for over three decades, our team has founded nonprofits, served on dozens of boards, and built sustainable, mission-aligned revenue models.
Fundraisers at Heart
We’ve helped our nonprofit partners secure more than a billion dollars in capital campaign funds, connecting their missions with value-aligned donors.
Participatory Changemakers
Volunteering in our community is a requirement of every employee at M Creative. We know first hand the needs of our community because we are on the front lines of social change.
Human-Centered Strategy + Design
Our clients constantly tell us they feel seen and heard when they see the creative work we do on their behalf.
Visionary Storytelling
Whereas many marketing and design firms help clients sell products and services, we help our clients drive impact by telling their story.
Certified B-Corp
We balance purpose, people, and profit, aware that our business choices affect our workforce, community, and environment.
Our Team
A designer by training, his vision for the role of design is expansive — able to transform social systems, build equity, and heal divides. Forrest’s leadership roles focus primarily on creative execution, operations and management, internal resourcing, staff development, and human resources.
An innovative, strategic, and bi-lingual leader with an international profile and 20+ years of experience working as an executive and sustainability consultant in both the public and private sectors. Focuses primarily on strategy, client relationships, research, insights, and innovation.
With 13 years of experience and a passion for storytelling through design, Stephanie has worked with clients across higher education and the nonprofit sector, using design to break barriers, advance equality, and promote positive change. She joined M Creative in 2024.
Jon joined M Creative in 2006 after graduating with a Master’s degree from the College of Design at NC State University. His experience as a designer spans freelance work and a stint at an ad agency in Boston. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Salem College teaching graphic design.
Since 2024, Liz has served M Creative as an account strategist. Previously, she was the Marketing Communications Specialist for a nonprofit focused on preventing and treating child abuse/neglect and has a background in early childhood education. She is passionate about the protection, health, and education of children, which informs her work every day.
Alandria joined the M Creative team in 2022. A graduate of North Carolina A&T State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, she develops and manages digital content and strategy on social media, e-marketing, analytics, and website projects.
A proud Latina, mother, and former social worker, Stephany joined M Creative in 2025. With a Bachelors of Design from Penn State, she blends artistic vision with technical expertise to push the boundaries of design and storytelling to advocate for social causes.
Miyako joined the M Creative team in October 2020 with 20 years of project management experience at the Center for Creative Leadership. She graduated from NC A&T State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.
Our longest tenured employee, Stephen has spent the majority of his career at M Creative as a creative writer. He graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and has been with M Creative for more than 25 years.
Center Inclusion
Ethical storytelling, reciprocal relationships, and co-creating communication strategies with clients and communities are critical to our best work. We intentionally center diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices across our hiring, internal culture, and vendor relationships.
Practice Sustainability
As the first Certified B Corporation in the Piedmont Triad and a proud Piedmont Environmental Alliance Green Business, we are legally required to evaluate our impacts on our workers, suppliers, community, and the environment.
Give Back
Volunteering in our shared community is an active requirement for every team member at M Creative. We maintain a first-hand view of evolving social issues because we stand on the front lines of change alongside the clients we represent.
Focus on Impact
We often say we don't sell products, we tells stories. And those stories should move the needle not just for our clients, but for our community and world. The measure of our work is lasting social change.