Content Development
Akonadi Foundation: “We Love Oakland” Storytelling Campaign
Akonadi Foundation: “We Love Oakland” Storytelling Campaign
"Oakland is such a beautiful home for everyone. It allows us to think boldly and to act in ways that we are always in solidarity with others.” - Peggy Saika Our beloved hometown of Oakland faces negative narratives, especially around community safety, that overshadows the city’s culture, activism, and diversity. Akonadi, a 25-year funder and convener in the Bay Area, sought a proactive way to counter the negative narratives...
EL-WIN – Building Multilingual Educator Pipelines in California’s Central Valley
EL-WIN – Building Multilingual Educator Pipelines in California’s Central Valley
"Amazing partners from start to finish! Change Consulting more than exceeded our hopes for the partnership. Despite our limited budget, they were able to deliver high-quality products and messaging with a cohesive message. They met every request with thoughtfulness and grace, and they found a way to accommodate the feedback and preferences of our varied stakeholders. Our work is nuanced and complex and the Change Consulting team took the time...
Nourish California, #Food4All Campaign
Nourish California, #Food4All Campaign
From the fall of 2019 through June 2020, Change Consulting partnered with Nourish California to support the #Food4All campaign -- the first of its kind to address the longstanding discrimination in our state’s nutrition safety net by expanding access to essential food assistance to any immigrant who is ineligible for federal CalFresh -- through a story-centric approach. We provided research and communications strategy recommendations, planning, messaging, storytelling training, digital and...
California Black Freedom Fund
California Black Freedom Fund
Launched in February 2021, the California Black Freedom Fund is a first-of-its-kind, five-year, $100 million initiative to ensure that Black power-building and movement-based organizations have the sustained investments and resources they need to eradicate systemic and institutional racism. Over a period of about six months, Change Consulting worked with a group of CEOs and their communications teams to create the look and feel, messaging and pre-launch and launch communications strategies....
Akonadi Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Akonadi Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
In 2018, Akonadi Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation released the benchmark report Mapping Small Arts and Culture Organizations of Color in Oakland, which outlined how Oakland’s grassroots arts and culture organizations strengthen our community; help shape government, institutional policies, and practices towards racial justice; and why funders must increase support for these vital community assets. Change Consulting worked with the researchers behind the report to translate their findings into...
California Funder for Boys & Men of Color
California Funder for Boys & Men of Color
The California Funders for Boys and Men of Color (CFBMoC) brings together CEOs from the state’s leading philanthropy organizations, united by a vision that all boys and men of color should enjoy full inclusion in all of the opportunities this state has to offer, and that California’s prosperity will grow as they flourish. For three years, Change Consulting has worked with CFBMoC to develop and advance a communications strategy that...
Power California
Power California
Launched in 2018, Power California works to mobilize young people of color across California to participate and lead systems of government at all levels and to ensure that voters and elected leaders reflect the full diversity of California. From August to November 2018, Change Consulting provided communications strategy and earned media outreach support for their campaign to mobilize young people to register for and vote in the midterm elections. To...