Center for Urban Education (CUE) spearheads action research that levels the playing field of college completion for underrepresented students. Learn more about our work in education.
The California Wellness Foundation's 2010 Annual Report addresses critical shortages in California's health care workforce and highlights strategies to develop the culturally and linguistically competent workforce the state needs in the 21st century. Learn more about this annual report.
The newly, rebranded BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy supports the innovative use of scientific research and policy development to help eliminate disparities in physical and mental health for underserved communities. We are helping them reimagine their center so it better aligns with their mission.
First 5 LA launches bilingual Transit TV PSAs throughout Los Angeles County with stories that resonate with its diverse population of parents and caregivers of children ages 0-5.
Check out the spots! >>>>
LA County's award-winning Arts for All initiative launches a new website, created by Hershey Cause, to help school districts, principals, teachers, artists and parents here and across the country restore and sustain arts education for K-12 students. Read more.
Rejoice: 2012: Different, Not Disastrous
We’ve all heard doom-and-gloom predictions for the sector. Is your organization ready for the challenge? Where will you focus your resources to overcome them? The Non-Profit Times summoned sage advice from six sector leaders who do indeed predict the end of the nonprofit as we know it. But that’s not a bad thing. Read more here: 2012 End of the World or Nonprofit Renaissance (PDF of Special Report from the December 1st, 2011 edition)
Reflect: Beyond the Program, Communications Divide
How well are communications integrated into your organization? How can you overcome institutional challenges to collaboration? For an online exploration of shifting organizational cultures to overcome the us vs. them mentality too often prevalent in foundations and nonprofits, read posts from Minna Jung, vice chair of the Communications Network, and Ben Rodriguez, program officer at the Connecticut Health Foundation.
Resolve: Clear Communications
Lingo is everywhere. Often communicators think it provides shortcuts to reach their audiences like acronyms in text messages. Are you connecting or striking out? As a listener, do you share Dan Pallotta’s frustration? Have you diagnosed in your world any of the five epidemic strains he identifies in this Harvard Business Review blog post.
Congratulations to our Award-Winning Creative Teams!
We are pleased to announce that we have recently won two MarCom Awards for our clients: The California Wellness Foundation’s 2010 Annual Report and First 5 LA's bilingual Transit TV PSAs, which have aired throughout Los Angeles County. The MarCom Awards in an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communications professionals.
We are also proud to announce that our client, The Annenberg Foundation, has won a 2011 PRSA-LA PRism Awards for their PITCH:AFRICA project. PITCH:AFRICA is the first-of-its kind rainwater harvesting and filtering system built into a soccer field. This innovative system captures, stores and filters rainwater that will provide clean water on a regular basis where water is scarce or unavailable throughout Africa and other parts of the world.
Our client The California Wellness Foundation was also honored with a PRSA-LA Prism Awards for our work with them on their 2009 Annual Report.
Communications Effectiveness Index
Based upon a joint Cause/Princeton Survey
Research Associates survey of more than 500
organizations in the nonprofit sector, we
identified characteristics shared by the most
effective communicators. More details and a
self-assessment tool can be found at
CommunicationsEffectiveness.org.
