About Bright+3

Bright+3 advises community, communications and fundraising leaders who want to build content programs that reach and engage audiences. We work with non-profits, campaigns and news organizations.

We provide one-to-one coaching, fractional leadership services, strategic consulting and campaign implementation.

Future Community is a newsletter that explores how organizations are navigating the intersection of content and community.

Current and recent clients include:

Our team has held senior positions in nonprofit organizations, worked on candidate and ballot campaigns, and founded and led consulting teams. We understand nonprofits, their resource constraints, and the pressure their teams face to meet their mission.

About Ted Fickes

Ted has worked at the intersection of digital communications, on the ground organizing, public policy and nonprofit management for over 20 years.

Ted worked as Development Director for organizations in Denver and Chicago, has worked on several political campaigns, put together one of the first nonprofit technology circuit rider programs, founded Colorado Conservation Voters, and started his first consulting firm in 2002 to help progressive nonprofits and campaigns better communicate online.

From 2006 to 2011, Ted managed online campaigns and digital strategy for The Wilderness Society. Ted has run Bright+3 since 2011 to focus his efforts on developing and testing people-powered campaigning and communications strategies with innovative nonprofits, startups and campaigns. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.