Tellwell Story Co

Tellwell Story Co. is a creative studio in Fargo, ND, built for mission-driven organizations. We help nonprofits tell stories that turn strangers into friends and friends into champions.

We make documentary impact films, brand and content strategy, design, and websites. The thread through all of it is human-first storytelling. Your audience is the hero. Your organization is the guide. Every piece of work earns trust first, then asks for action.

Most marketing rushes to the ask. We start earlier. Our Seasons of Story framework treats outreach like a relationship that moves through four stages. Spring introduces you and says "you're safe here." Summer educates and shows people they can rely on you. Fall invites them in so they feel they matter. Winter reminds everyone they belong. Relationship first, results follow.

We work with nonprofits, higher education institutions, and community-minded financial organizations. The work spans capital campaign storytelling, brand strategy, listening sessions, impact films, and the websites and collateral that hold it all together. Clients have opened new markets, grown engaged audiences, and raised the money that funds their missions.

For us it always begins with clarity. Clarity is kindness. Before we make anything, we get sharp on who you serve, what you stand for, and the change you want to see. Then we build. Then we help you put it to work in the world.

We also believe a healthy creative ecosystem matters as much as any single project. Alongside the studio, we host the annual WellTold Conference, publish the Start with Story newsletter, and produce the Tellwell podcast.

We are glad to be new members of the Montana Nonprofit Association. Montana's nonprofits do real work for real communities, and we would love to help more of them tell it well.

Curious where to start? A conversation is free, and clarity is the first deliverable.