Salish Sea Consulting

Where words come to life and ideas take flight!

With the power of AI to transform your company and content

If You Want

Grant Writing Content Writing AI Integration Tools

  • Environmental Tech Companies Looking for Grant Research and Writing

  • As a business owner, it can be challenging to have enough time to create online content. That's where I can help.

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Salish Sea Consulting is a creative content marketing agency

We use words to inspire transformation.

Mindful Client Outreach & Engagement

Helping clients succeed with wordcraft

Salish Sea Consulting provides custom copywriting and grant writing services tailored to your needs.

I help you develop a creative strategy.

Using AI helps to shorten the time to market and shorten content creation time.

I do this while keeping the writing authentic and original.

Keeping in mind that a human is still in control.

Writing for good, not evil

Salish Sea Consulting is proudly committed to ethical copywriting. Committed to producing positive messages without resorting to clichés, jargon, or hyperbole.

Writing that changes lives

In addition to providing your business with effective communications materials, Salish Sea Consulting also offers author website design services. These services are designed from the ground up to help authors get noticed.

I believe in the power of words to change the world. I am here to help your business and nonprofit tell your story in a way that engages your audience and drives results.

Whether you need help writing a grant proposal or creating marketing materials that capture your unique selling proposition, I can help get your message out there in a way that resonates with your audience.


I can show you how to get there and how to get there quickly so you can focus on the things that excite you, and watch the bookings come in!

My Work Gives You Time to Focus on Serving Your Clients

  • I'm passionate about helping your nonprofit organization make sense of your grant writing process

  • helping your creative business with your target audience, by writing blog posts, email marketing, and content organization

  • SEO for creatives, nonprofits, and environmentally-conscious businesses and startups.

  • Certified SEO expert by Google and SurferSEO.

  • Member of Puget Sound Grant Writers Association and Association for Fundraising Professionals Northwest chapter, and Nonprofit Association of Washington.

    I currently live on Whidbey Island in Washington a state and the southern Salish Sea.

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What my clients are saying

  • Chester has given me a lot of help with my copywriting content and is excellent at generating rapport with customers. Chester is able to understand what I am looking for in my marketing campaigns and his creative input helps us build higher conversions for our business. Chester helps me with all my copywriting needs and his creativity has been a huge asset to my marketing campaign. The rapport he creates with potential customers is invaluable because it improves the experience for both parties.

    - John McAlpine, KSER board member

  • It had been a while since I had been on a website creation process and I was looking for a great person to work with. Chester has been a great contributor to work with so far and their customer support has been excellent. They have made the process of creating my website such an easy task!

    -Julie Rozell, independent business owner Jellyfish Creations

  • Chester is the best writer in town. His skills are unmatched and he always delivers high-quality, compelling content. He has a knack for taking a complex idea and making it easy to understand for anyone, even for those who don't have any background knowledge of the topic. I would highly recommend Chester to anyone looking for copywriting help!

    -Dave Fillmore, business owner SAS Shoes San Mateo California

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About Me

Additional Current and Past Clients

My Grant Writing Services

  • Funding Strategy

    What kind of change would you make if you knew you had the money to make it happen? A funding strategy gives you the confidence you need to make that new project or program a reality.

    A Funding Strategy is a simple document that specifies what planning is still needed to position an organization for success as well as what grants to pursue and when. This process usually takes three to five weeks and results in a list of 20+ potential funding sources.

    From there, we interview funders to confirm eligibility, project fit, competitiveness and a host of other considerations. It is always more cost-effective to carefully select grant opportunities than to find out later that we weren’t eligible or had impossibly low chances of success.

    The final deliverable is a Funding Strategy that will serve as a road map for knowing what grants to pursue and when over the next 12-18 months.

    Starting at $1500.00

  • Grant Writing

    Grants are complex, time-consuming projects, and we've developed a writing technique that combines the narrative storytelling of journalism with meticulous attention to detail. Submitting grant applications that clearly and concisely display the vision for your project, program or organization ensures the highest chance of success.

    Some grants are complex 100+ hour efforts, and others require a quick letter of inquiry before finding out if we're invited to submit a full proposal.

    My pricing is determined on a case-by-case basis based on the complexity of an application.

  • Power Prospectus/Investor Letter

    A Power Prospectus/Investor Letter is a one-page overview of your organization and the project/program you want to fund.

    The Power Prospectus/Investor Letter is a tool to hook potential funders. It succinctly describes your organization, what it does and why it matters. It also summarizes the project/program you want to get funded and the impact it will have⁠—all in a visually pleasing one-page PDF.

    This is used for grant funding for nonprofits and NGOs as well as tech startups as an investor letter.

    Starting at $500.00

  • White Papers/Technical Writing

    A white paper is a hybrid of a magazine article and a corporate brochure that communicates an organization's often-complex message in a simple, professional, and compelling manner. The majority of clients prefer to read the educational magazine article section of the white paper to learn about answers to their problems, but the persuasive brochure section of the white paper also does its job, persuading readers to buy the product or use the service.
    Starting at $1200.00

Sustainable Entreprenuer Website

You just have a few seconds to capture and hold the interest of website visitors.

With this complete website bundle, you can find the words that will turn visitors into customers.

  • 5 pages of website copy

  • 10 product/service descriptions

  • Website audit with SEO analysis and recommendations

  • SEO Alt Text, meta description, and texts

Starting at $2000

Sustainable Website

Provide value and drive organic traffic with high quality, evergreen content. 

  • Content strategy development

  • 4 SEO blogs, 1k - 1500 words each

  • Bimonthly email newsletters

  • Ongoing website audits with SEO recommendations

Starting at $1800 a month

New Green Entrepreneur Website

New website or product? I've got some recommendations for you.

  • Competition report including SEO recommendations

  • 1 product landing page of 1000 words

  • 1 opt-in landing page

  • 3 product ads

  • 3 opt-in website or product emails

  • 45-minute Zoom call to review results and recommendations

Starting at $1600.00

Sustainability Writing Services

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Ala Carte Pricing

  • Email sequence for opt-in, product announcement, abandoned cart, key holiday, and re-engagement emails.

    $200.00/email in sequence step

  • Instagram Ads for your business are professionally written for new products, and course announcements.

    $300/per ad

  • SEO blog post following best practices. Includes keyword research for best organic traffic results. $300.00

  • Includes SEO keyword research for best organic traffic results and website traction. Competitor research and keyword recommendation. 500-1000 word landing page. $800.00

  • Pinterest campaigns around already-created blog posts help gain traction and drive traffic to your website. I recommend no less than a six-month commitment. Includes original pin design and Pinterest keyword research. $800/month, six-month commitment

Certifications and Associations

My Volunteer Work

Volunteer work is a great way to give back to your community. Being raised in a semi-privileged household in the Pacific Northwest I have often felt that I should be giving back to the community in some way, either small or large.

I am announcing that I have joined two new nonprofit organizations as a grant writer.

CrowdDoing

CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Reframe It Inc. and Match4Action Foundation that is focused on helping address the UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond through micro-leadership, massively multi-disciplinary collaboration, and service learning to support social innovation and social enterprise to achieve systemic change.

Beyond the Crisis

Beyond the Crisis utilize food that is donated from community food drives, grocery stores, farms, manufacturers, retailers, and USDA commodities.

My past volunteer projects included Rotary International and Translators Without Borders