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Real photos and video of your nonprofit.No more stock.

Donors can spot a stock photo from across the room. Your website shows smiling models from a photo library. Your programs serve real people doing real work, and none of it is on camera. A Media Day fixes that: the Higgens Media team spends a day on site photographing and filming your organization, and you walk away with a library you own.
THE PROBLEM

Everything you publish needs images, and you have none

Think about what your organization produced last year. A website. Social posts. Grant applications. An annual report. Event invitations. Board presentations. Every one of them needed photos, and every time, someone either grabbed a stock image, reused the same three pictures from 2019, or begged staff for phone photos taken in bad light.

Stock photos cost more than their license fee. Donors give to people, and when the people on your website are actors, something reads as off even if nobody can name it. Real images of your actual programs do work that stock images cannot.

One day on site, a library that lasts

The team arrives at your location with cameras, lenses, lighting, and a shot list built with you in advance. Over the day:

Program photography. Your services in action, with the people you serve, handled with whatever consent and privacy requirements your organization has. The team has worked with disability services, recovery programs, and other privacy-sensitive organizations and takes those rules seriously.

Staff and board portraits. Consistent, current headshots for the website, LinkedIn, and the annual report. New hires stop being the only person without a photo.

Facility and detail shots. Your building, your spaces, the small details that make your organization look like itself.

Interview footage. Short on-camera conversations with staff, leadership, or program participants. These become testimonial videos, social clips, and material for appeals.

The deliverable is an organized library. Every image edited, tagged, and sorted into folders by program and use. Not a hard drive dump. A library your communications person can actually find things in, delivered within two weeks.

GO QUARTERLY

Programs change, seasons change, people change

One shoot goes stale. Four shoots a year means your summer program, your fall fundraiser, your new staff, and your winter appeal all get covered. By the end of a year your organization has hundreds of current, usable, owned images and hours of footage, and stock photos are gone from your materials entirely.

Quarterly also matches how you publish. Each shoot feeds the next three months of website updates, social posts, and appeals with fresh material.

What it costs

Single Media Day:$1,850

Planning call, shot list, a full day on site, editing, and the organized library.

Annual program:$6,400 for four days, prepaid

One shoot per quarter, same deliverables each time, scheduled around your program calendar and events. The prepay saves $1,000 against booking four singles.

Half day$1,100

For smaller organizations or a single focused need.
Video editing beyond the standard deliverables, like a produced highlight film or a testimonial series, is quoted separately or handled through your Higgens Media care plan hours.

Put your real work on camera

Schedule a free intro call.

FAQ

Carefully, and your rules govern. Before the shoot, the team works through your consent process, flags who can and cannot appear on camera, and plans shots that show your work without identifying protected individuals when needed. Hands, spaces, and activity shots can carry a page when faces cannot.

We give you a license for full usage rights, no per-image fees, no expiration. Use them in grants, ads, print, anywhere.

Yes. Scheduling a quarterly shoot on an event date is one of the best uses of it. Tell the team the date early and the shot list gets built around the event.

Yes. Existing footage gets folded into the library, and editing it is standard work under a care plan.

Based in Indianapolis with clients throughout the nation, Higgens Media has been developing websites, marketing materials, and video since 2002.

Higgens Media
PO Box 7961
Greenwood, IN 46142
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