Kindred Motes
Kindred Motes advises nonprofit leaders, funders, and institutions navigating moments where strategy, narrative, and resources need to move in alignment. His work sits at the intersection of communications, philanthropy, public affairs, and institutional decision-making.
The work has moved through institutions, campaigns, and public pressure.
These figures reflect career-level strategy, communications, audience development, philanthropy, and advisory work led in-house and as an external consultant.
A career built across strategy, communications, and philanthropy.
Kindred Motes is an award-winning executive with nearly 15 years of social impact, communications, philanthropic, and management strategy experience, including campaigns for or in collaboration with some of the most prominent names in the social justice, technology, policy, and philanthropic sectors.
His work has included or intersected with The United Nations, The Obama White House, USAID, ACLU, Global Citizen, Netflix, Participant Media, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Google, MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, New America, Southern Poverty Law Center, Girl Rising, GenderSmart Investing Summit, and the Vera Institute of Justice, among others.
Kindred’s strategic planning and management of digital marketing and campaign implementation, led both in-house and as an external consultant, has engaged more than 400 million accounts worldwide. His career audience growth strategies have helped NGOs, foundations, and nonprofit organizations acquire more than 1.1 million new followers.
He has managed multiple strategic grantmaking portfolios and advised teams with annual giving budgets of up to $30 million. His portfolio spans 18 countries, including six low- or middle-income countries.
Public rooms, private strategy, and high-stakes institutions.
Kindred has advised organizations on integrating marketing and social impact campaigns within international and governmental affairs work.
Sharing perspectives on social impact.
Kindred’s public commentary connects strategy, philanthropy, institutional responsibility, and the practical work of moving resources toward social impact.
The work is grounded in practice, study, and public responsibility.
We’re ready when the work is serious.
If you need strategy, narrative, funder engagement, executive advisory, or campaign support at a moment where timing matters, start with a conversation.