Partner With Us
Join forces with us to meet your communication goals, while helping our students grow professionally. Tap into our talented UW community. Custom three-month projects are designed specifically to address your organization’s communication challenges and provide cost-effective results.
How We Help
Rates & Fee Waivers
Our program aims to meet client and community need, while recognizing the value of student work. We offer initial client consultations free of charge, then determine rates and fees for projects based on the scope of work, organizational capacity, and student interest.
We have two kinds of projects depending on the kind of service you need :
Fee waivers are available, based on organizational need, values alignment, educational value. It can be discussed at your initial consultation, and requested via the form linked below. For questions about rates and fee waivers, contact Alex Stonehill at stonehil@uw.edu
Hear from our Clients!
Cascade Bicycle Club
Sara Kiesler, Communications Marketing Director at Cascade Bicycle Club, recounts her collaboration with volunteers from CommLead Consultancy on a UX Design & Research paid project. Working with a dedicated team of volunteers, the project spanned two full quarters with faculty advising, a testament to the depth of engagement with the CommLead students
Reflecting on this collaboration, Sara emphasizes its significance: “We couldn’t have done the work we did on our current website without CommLead students, honestly!”
OSPI
Zac Murphy, employed at OSPI (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction), collaborated with the consultancy across multiple projects, engaging with various volunteers from CommLead Consultancy through the years. Among these projects, two significant ones involved delving deeper into crafting strategies to monitor misinformation and disinformation. and developing a comprehensive marketing plan for OSPI original films.
Our Recent Clients
We are dedicated to serving our community better by providing affordable communication solutions to mission-driven organizations, whether they’re non-profits, small businesses, government agencies, UW departments, or startups.
Non-Profit Organizations
The Olympia Free Clinic
Impact 100 Seattle
Pacific Bonsai Museum
Y.E.T.I
Northwest Health Law Advocates
Seattle JazzED
Seattle Mountain Rescue
Resilient In Sustaining Empowerment
Advocates For Immigrants In Detention Northwest
Northwest Education Access
Washington Alliance For Better Schools
International Community Health Services
The Rhapsody Project
Stemtac Foundation
The Nature Project
Jewish Voices for Peace
Skagit Trail Builders
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington
Cascade Bicycle Club
MLK Labor
Alliance for Education
NSF Secure Analytics
World Relief Western WA
SkyWay Coalition
Small businesses
Aditi Chai
Zane Counseling
Rainier Health & Fitness
Live Long and Plant
Centerstage Theatre
Armoire.Style
Think Bright Therapy
Botanical Colors
Phoenix Labs.AI
Ooliva
Publicola
Boon Boona Coffee
Mcqueen Champagne Bar
Larj Media
Making Local
Sembhi Integrative Medicine
Recompose
WA Family Law Tech
Startups
Moco ‘n’ Mousse Snackerels
Tizana Mexicana
Komi
Joosi
Meditation for Actors
Yuzi Care
UW Departments
UW Alumni Association
UW Nature and Health Earth Lab
UW Study Abroad
UW Department of History
UW Center for Global Studies
UW Department of Geography
UW Genome Sciences
UW I-Labs
UW Center for an Informed Public
UW CoMotion
UW School of Nursing
UW Professional Staff
UW Airlift Northwest
UW Latino Center for Health
UW College of Arts and Sciences
UW Edge
UW Puget Sound Institute
Government Organizations
City of Seattle
Seattle Human Services
OSPI
Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
King County Dept of Local Services
University of Washington