Bow Valley Contractors
This list provides contact details for various Bow Valley freelance contractors available for paid contracts.
Are you a Bow Valley contractor with skills that could help support our local non-profits? Get in contact to learn more about joining the list. Bonus points if you offer discounted rates for non-profits!
Disclaimer – This list is not ‘vetted’. It is the responsibility of non-profit organizations to verify the expertise of any contractors before engaging them.
Recommended Process – It is strongly suggested that the following steps be taken before hiring a contractor:
- Ask other non-profit organizations for their suggestions
- Get at least 3 quotes if possible
- Ask if they offer a non-profit rate
- Ask for and check references
- Ask for work samples
Accounting & Financial Services
Launchbury Accounting & Bookkeeping Solutions
Launchbury Accounting & Bookkeeping Solutions is a small, affable, & professional accounting business providing expert services across the accounting & bookkeeping spectrum. Managed by our founder, Harry Launchbury ACMA, CGMA, bringing over 8 years of experience in the accounting (& bookkeeping) field – we have experience and regular clients in registered charities & non-profits, along with for-profit businesses
We believe in being a participating member of the community, from volunteering to offering subsidized-rate services to Charities, Non-Profits, & other good causes. Which gives us great pleasure to offer these charities, non-profits, & other good causes a discount of up to 40% for their bookkeeping & payroll services
Website: Launchbury Accounting & Bookkeeping Solutions
Email: [email protected]
Call: (403) 996-2030
Communications
Bow Valley Marketing
Offering a full range of communications services, including strategic planning, content creation, website design/SEO and copywriting. Bow Valley Marketing specialize in helping organizations optimize their websites for user experience and SEO to help get found online. We work with organizations on content management plans for blogging, newsletters and social media. We also offer training and coaching services.
Passionate about working with values-driven organizations, Moselle, founder of Bow Valley Marketing offers over two business degrees and two decades of professional marketing communications experience, including eight years working with non-profit organizations. Moselle researched and designed this website for the Town of Canmore and the Town of Banff.
Website: Bow Valley Marketing
Please ask about our non-profit rates.
Perch Communications Inc
Perch Communications is a boutique storytelling studio based in Canmore. We help ambitious non-profits communicate their impact and command attention so they can raise money and awareness, rally communities, and create social change.
With associates in Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, we’ve served 40+ small but mighty non-profits across Canada including arts and culture institutions, museums and heritage foundations, social advocacy groups, public libraries, festivals and events, and more.
Our services include:
• Communications strategy
• Campaign development
• Case development
• Media relations
• Writing & editing
• Training & workshops
Website: Perch Communications Inc
Scribe National
Scribe National is a professional copywriting studio who offers:
Content writing: Build meaningful connections with your prospects and customers. We develop powerful content marketing assets including case studies, white papers, blog posts and website copy to drive action.
Content strategy: Where, when and how your tech company shows up in your market is incredibly important. Nail it with a customer-centric content strategy that establishes the value of your products and services.
Brand messaging: Your brand is more than your visual identity. Our expertise in brand voice development and storytelling helps you position your company and articulate your message with consistency and impact.
Website: Scribe National
ZedBiz Local Marketing
We provide digital marketing solutions to help your local non-profit to reach out to your community in a cost effective manner.
Website: ZedBiz Local Marketing
Facilitation/Strategic Planning
Kelly Wood Life Design + Facilitation
I work with organizations to support them in building positive organizational culture. In partnership with the organizations, we explore how to build trust, establish and live into real individual and organizational values, train in emotional intelligence, learn communication skills and deal with conflict.
Website: Kelly Wood Coaching
I offer non-profit rates for charities and non-profit organizations.
Leslie Taylor – Rathbone Taylor Consulting Inc.
I work as a meeting facilitator, helping groups explore and resolve their issues, create their plans and clarify roles, responsibilities and timing. From agenda planning to reporting results, as an experienced facilitator I can help you make your meeting more productive. I’m semi-retired, but still occasionally take on interesting projects.
Website (including my resume): Leslie Taylor – Rathbone Consulting Inc.
I offer somewhat reduced rates for non-profits.
Trish Tutton – Speaker and Mindfulness Teacher
Trish is a speaker and mindfulness teacher who has taught mindfulness to thousands of people across North America for the last decade. She is deeply passionate about empowering people to meet the challenges of their life with more peace and presence; to use the practice of mindfulness to reduce stress and anxiety, and create individual and team resilience.
You can find her as a teacher on the #1 free meditation app in the world, Insight Timer. She offers keynotes, workplace trainings (including virtual), 1:1 mentorship support and digital programs. Trish is on a mission to help you be calmer, happier, and more effective in your life and work.
Website: Trish Tutton
I offer non-profit rates on my workplace mindfulness offerings.
Watershed Organizational Development Group Inc.
Watershed brings wisdom, curiosity, and tenacity to the task of optimizing organizational development system-wide: clarifying goals; empowering leaders; and building cohesive and informed teams. Through inclusive consultation and impactful, lively facilitated sessions, we bring tangible results to our clients.
With a high commitment to results, you can count on us to respectfully challenge the status quo and create opportunities and possibilities in the areas of strategic planning and visioning, leadership development (one-on-one and group), and team and organizational development.
Website: Watershed Organizational Development Group Inc.
We’re pleased to offer Not-for-Profit rates as appropriate.
Grant Writing & Strategy
KEA Canada
KEA Canada provides interim leadership and services in a variety of areas including resource development, capacity-building, strategic planning, board development, campaign planning and management, coaching, and services for families and organizations looking for advice in strategic philanthropy.
Website: KEA Canada
Graphic Designers
Dee Larosa – Phaneric
Dee Larosa is a freelance graphic designer, Co-Founder of Crowfoot Media and Art Director of Canadian Rockies Annual. She offers seamless design thinking across branding, editorial, packaging, and web/mobile design, centered around a strong visual concept.
She’s been working professionally for over 10 years now, with clients over that time including ROAM Transit, artsPlace Canmore, Block Kitchen + Bar, Canmore Folk Music Festival, Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff Pride, Mount View BBQ, Eric Harvie Law, Bear Street Financial Group, Paul Zizka Photography and OFFBEAT, among many more.
Website: Phaneric
Jaime Birch Design
Jaime Birch is a freelance graphic designer working with logo design, brand identity, print marketing, and package design.
Website: Jaime Birch Design
Non-profit rates offered.
Martha de Santiago – Itinerant Creatures
Martha de Santiago is a graphic designer and illustrator specializing in editorial design and meaningful branding. Originally trained as a filmmaker, she has spent the last eight years applying her love of storytelling to colour, shape and detail, both as in-house designer and roaming freelancer. Martha finds her inspiration in the wilderness and a good cup of coffee, and she is always happy to chat about design with non-profits in the area.
Website: Itinerant Creatures
Sedulous One Media
Graphic design, website design, and video production.
Website: Sedulous One Media
Human Resources/Leadership Consulting
Heather Leier-Murray
I provide human resources and leadership consulting. I work with organizations to build, enhance, &/or redevelop their human resources programming. I also help leaders and organizations become more effective through leadership growth and development.
Website: Heather Leier-Murray
Non-profit rates are available for registered not for profit organizations.
Photography/Videography
Photography
Alex Popov Photography
Camille Nathania Photography
Camille Nathania is a portrait, documentary & lifestyle photographer driven to create for good. Passionate about social, environmental & humanitarian issues, I am actively seeking opportunities to work with organisations whose work aims to address these issues in our community and in our world. I am an active Bow Valley community member, having worked & volunteered for Bow Valley SPCA, Canmore Museum, Canmore General Hospital and more, and would love to work with more organisations to tell meaningful & impactful stories.
With 10+ years of experience in photography, graphic design and marketing, my services include documentary photography & storytelling; content creation & lifestyle photography; and creative consulting. I am also available for select graphic design, web design & copywriting projects.
I offer reduced rates for non-profits
Website: Camille Nathania Photography
Kristy Wolfe Photography
Kristy Wolfe offers storytelling photography sessions for organizations, as well asPay It Forward photography sessions that can be gifted to medical, special needs, or palliative families. Kristy’s most recent projects, including her book, Tell Your Story Through Photography, are about teaching others how to narrate their own experiences through photography.
Stories drive action. Connect with Kristy to discuss either having her photograph stories for your non-profit or inviting her to teach your community to tell their own stories through photography. Kristy has worked and/or volunteered with the following non-profits: ArtsPlace, Canmore Museum, Bow Valley Immigration Partnership, Rocky Mountain Adaptive, and Hope for Kids Palliative Care Society of the Bow Valley.
Website: Kristy Wolfe Photography
Georgi Silckerodt – Silckerodt Photography
My name is Georgi and I am a local photographer specializing in portraits and business branding. I have worked with small businesses and non for profits for over 10 years to create beautiful and impactful websites and social media content. I have worked with over 150 businesses and entrepreneurs in the bow valley, elevating their brand with impactful imagery.
My most popular services include headshots, physical spaces, products and lifestyle photography.
Website: Silckerodt Photography
I offer discounted rates for non for profits.
Nahanni Photography
Description: I am a Metis artist born and raised in the Canadian Rockies.
My creative practice involves the human impact on the environment, focusing on national parks in Canada. Growing up in Banff National Park has made me focus on the mix between tourism and wildlife and trying to rely on the harm that we have on the animals. We need to learn to coexist.
Photography graduate from Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver BC. Completing my Photography Practicum at the Banff Centre and now trying to navigate a career in this crazy world. I am currently working full time as an artist creating artwork for galleries and publications internationally including the 2022 European Cultural Centre alongside the Venice Biennial. I am also a professional event and headshot photographer! My previous gigs include Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival, Alvvays and Shred Kelly. If you can’t find me in my studio you can find me in the backcountry somewhere or on the water enjoying a nice brew.
Email: [email protected]
Videography
Chance Studios
Chance Studios offers full service marketing, brand identity services, and content creation. We are a queer owned and operated business in the Bow Valley that believes in embracing and celebrating what makes you and your business unique to better tell your story.
Our services include: Video, photo, and website creation, graphic design, copywriting, social media packages, and brand strategy.
Website: Chance Studios
Non-Profit Rates: We love working with our community to tell company stories in a responsible way. We offer sliding scale rates for non-profits.
Sign & Printing
Pro Image Signs & Printing
We are a small and large format printer, operating in the Bow Valley since 2010. We have the capabilities to print everything from posters and postcards to banners and event signs. We offer non-profit pricing and can assist with design and planning. We are located in downtown Canmore and provide services all over the Bow Valley.
Website: Pro Image Signs & Printing
Translation Services
The Bow Valley Immigration Partnership is a coalition of people and organizations working to build more welcoming, inclusive, and equitable communities in the Bow Valley. BVIP can provide referrals to translation and interpretation services as well as a list of target languages. For assistance or more information, please contact [email protected]
Web Design/Consulting/Safety
Rebecca Innes Consulting
Area of Business: Professional Emergency Management Services
I am a local consultant and work in emergency management and specialize in prevention-based, disaster resiliency-building programming for individuals and communities. Recently, I have been working on creating resilient-based programs that are guided by indigenous/ traditional practices.
Website: Rebecca Innes – ABCP | LinkedIn
Tiga Design
I’m Reg Hendryanto, President/Owner of a Canmore-based freelance web designer/developer who is currently serving two non-profit organizations and would love to serve more. I specialize in CMS based website designs such as WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify. In addition, I manage google ads, email marketing, LinkedIn marketing, create business card designs, logos etc.
Website: Tiga Design
Vaughn Bonsteel Consulting
Business Consulting, Safety Consulting
Vaughn Bonsteel is a Canmore resident who consults on business analysis as well as occupational health & safety. Vaughn combines his years of experience in the health and safety domain with his years of organizational experience to help the great people behind small and medium sized business safely increase efficiency, productivity, compliance, and revenue.
Website: Vaughn Bonsteel
I am more than happy to provide discounted rates to any Bow Valley non-profit.
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