Built to support your
team, at every level.
Most YMCA's are doing extraordinary community work, but their websites, campaigns, and creative don't reflect it. We're a multidisciplinary group of strategic, creative, design and dev exerts that run the way an in-house team would.
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We didn't stumble into the Y.
We chose it and stayed.
Wallendorf Studio is a creative and technology agency based in San Diego. After three years as the embedded agency partner for YMCA of San Diego County, the Y has become the heart of what we do.
We understand nonprofit governance, multi-location operations, Salesforce architecture, membership marketing, and community storytelling. We didn't read about it — we lived inside it.
Your in-house team
is talented. They're
also stretched.
- Your website doesn't convert
- Salesforce isn't working for you
- Your story isn't being told
- Your website doesn't convert
What 3 years inside the Y
San Diego looks like.
Real projects. Real impact.
We speak your
organization's language.
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A Homepage Built for How People Actually Join.
A Homepage Built for How People Actually Join.
How We Compare
| Internal YMCA team | Other Agencies | Wallendorf Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Already stretched across programs and operations | Another vendor to manage | One team, fully embedded with yours |
| Split between members, staff, and digital | Meetings, decks, and approvals | We handle it - your team stays focused |
| Everything gets deprioritized | "Let's revisit scope" | We adjust in real time |
| Limited by internal capacity | Dependent on timelines and queues | Execution starts immediately |
| Salary + benefits + tools + overhead | Change orders and hourly creep | Predictable monthly investment |
| Falls back on your team | Project ends, momentum slows | Deep experience, always improving |
| Generalists across too many systems | Varies by project/team | Deep experience across your stack (Salesforce, WordPress, analytics) |
| Another task in the queue | Submit a ticket and wait | We're already on it |
"They don't feel like a vendor.
They feel like part of our team."
"Working with Wallendorf has fundamentally changed what we're able to do digitally. They understand the Y — the mission, the complexity, the community. That's not something you can train a vendor on."
"Our Salesforce build was a mess before they touched it. Now it actually works for us — our team spends time on members instead of workarounds. The ROI is real and measurable."
"The 2026 campaign creative was the best thing our brand has produced. Real people, real branches, real storytelling. Our members felt seen in it — and prospects noticed the difference."
"Managing 16 locations of creative used to be a nightmare of inconsistency. Wallendorf built systems that scale. Every branch feels like the same organization — and that matters deeply."
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what's possible?
Book a 20-minute discovery call, no commitment, no pitch deck. Just a real conversation about your Y and where you want to take it.
