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Quick Facts
Organization
Every Mother Counts
Kate's Role
Director of Communications
Duration
4 years (2019–2023)
Founder
Christy Turlington Burns
Mission
Maternal health equity
The work that proved the Clarity Creative model.
A COMMUNICATIONS MACHINE
Every Mother Counts

Hired to fix their communications.

Hired to fix their communications. Built 
growth engine.

Built a growth engine.

Before founding Clarity Creative, Kate Varghese spent four years as Director of Communications at Every Mother Counts — building the strategic infrastructure that doubled campaign revenue year after year and grew the org’s social following by over 100K in the first year alone. 

This is the work that proved the Clarity Creative model.
At a glance
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New donor revenue
growth, year one
~0
New followers
in 3 months
0
Email open rate
increase
Scroll down for the full story behind these numbers.
The challenge
The challenge

A beloved founder. A powerful mission.
A huge communications gap.

Every Mother Counts was founded by Christy Turlington Burns to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother, everywhere. By 2019, the nonprofit had a nationally recognized mission and a deeply committed team — but its comms didn't match the caliber of the work happening inside.

THE CHALLENGE: There was no unified brand voice across digital channels. Social media was reactive, not strategic. The website and email marketing operated in silos. And online fundraising—despite significant organizational visibility —was underperforming what EMC's reputation warranted.

Kate initially met with the Managing Director of Communications for a one-time consulting session. What was supposed to be an advisory meeting turned into a recruitment pitch. EMC recruited Kate away from her two largest clients to take on the challenge.

"EMC had the awareness. What it didn't have was the infrastructure to turn that awareness into action."

— The gap that started everything
the approach
The approach

Full reins. Full stack.

Full reins. Full stack. Full commitment. 

Full commitment.

Kate took ownership of EMC’s communications channels—working alongside the development, programs, and executive teams to build a unified strategy. Over four years and multiple campaign cycles, each season built on the last

Year 1 — Listen, build, launch
01
Full audit + strategy build.
Audited every channel, email funnel, and audience segment. Built the communications strategy that would drive the next three years. The gap: high awareness, almost no engagement infrastructure.
Year 2 — Crisis pivot + growth
02
COVID rewrote the plan. Kate rewrote it faster.
Scrapped a 10-year anniversary campaign overnight. Rebuilt around what mothers needed during the pandemic: connection, trusted information, community. Produced EMC's strongest growth season in history.
Year 3–4 — Scale + sustain
03
Compounding results across every channel.
Refined messaging, scaled what worked, cut what didn't. Delivering Hope documentary series, Arrival Stories book campaign, annual impact reports. Revenue growth culminating in a $1.6M single-campaign season.
The highlight reel
Highlights

The campaigns, content & strategies. 

The campaigns, content & strategies

The work that moved the needle.


Over four years, Kate led the conception and execution of dozens of campaigns, content series, and strategic initiatives — working across EMC’s communications, fundraising, programs, and executive teams. Here are some that defined the engagement.

Crisis response
COVID-19 Maternal Health Resource Hub
A resource hub that became a trusted source of pandemic-related maternal health information. Major outlets shared it, generating new leads and positioning EMC as the authority.
#1
Top referral page on the
entire website for 12+ months
Social campaign
#MaternalHealthHeroes
A UGC campaign that gave isolated parents a platform to share birth stories during lockdown. Catalyst for the org's largest audience growth in history.
~3x
Reach and followers
tripled in 5 months
Book launch
Arrival Stories
Christy Turlington Burns and Amy Schumer's anthology — turned into a full campaign that drove EMC's most successful fundraising season ever.
$1.6M
Single campaign season
revenue (up from $112K)
Film series
Delivering Hope
A social-first documentary series following maternal health workers worldwide. Full pipeline: creative brief, filmmaker partnerships, casting, directing, editorial, marketing.
4+
Countries featured
Annual reports
Impact Reports
Four teams, one founder's vision, a mountain of data — turned into reports that didn't just document, they drove multimillion-dollar fundraising seasons.
4
Annual reports
produced
Now for the receipts (the part your board wants to see)
The results
Now for the receipts

The results.

The results. 

Four years of compounding strategy.
Here’s the story the numbers told by the end.

Four years of compounding strategy. Here’s the story the numbers told by the end.

Mother's Day Campaign Revenue

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2022 season total — up from $112K in 2019
+68% YOY core season
2019 — The baseline Kate's first months. Auditing every channel, building the strategy from scratch. No infrastructure existed yet.
$112K
2019
2020 — The COVID pivot Strategy scrapped overnight. Rebuilt around community need. Launched the Resource Hub and #MaternalHealthHeroes.
$485K
2020
2021 — Compounding growth Delivering Hope film series, deeper donor engagement, and infrastructure that was now self-reinforcing.
$1.28M
2021
2022 — The peak season Arrival Stories book launch, new engagement tentpoles, a Mother's Day match campaign. Full-stack season on Kate's infrastructure.
$1.62M
2022
3x
New donor revenue
First-time donors went from $145K to $460K year-over-year. New audiences, not just re-engagement.
~100K
New followers in 3 months
Driven by #MaternalHealthHeroes. Organic, community-powered growth.
+40%
Email open rate increase
Rebuilt email to work in sync with social and web. Every touchpoint reinforced the next.
99%
Vendor cost reduction
Web dev spend dropped from $156K to under $1K. Full stack, fewer handoffs, faster execution.
What's next
What's next

This is what happens when their strategy is right.

Imagine the same for yours.

The same framework. The same audit-first approach. Distilled into focused engagements that deliver results in months, not years.

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