Earned Media
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...
Black Girl Freedom Fund
Black Girl Freedom Fund
Working with the incredible team at Grantmakers for Girls of Color, we supported the launch of the Black Girl Freedom Fund and #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign, an initiative that calls for an investment of $1 billion over the next 10 years in the brain trust, innovation, health, safety, education, research, and joy of Black girls and their families. Change Consulting developed the messaging and strategy for the campaign, which launched with an...
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....
#ACT4SouthernTowers Campaign
#ACT4SouthernTowers Campaign
African Communities Together (ACT) brings together their members -- African immigrants in the U.S. -- to fight for civil rights, opportunity, and a better life for their families. The Southern Towers Apartment complex has for years remained an affordable place to live in Alexandria, Virginia, a rapidly gentrifying region. When CIM Group, the building’s new owner, launched a series of illegal and extreme evictions against Southern Towers’ majority African immigrant...
Black Mama’s Bail Out Day
Black Mama’s Bail Out Day
We are proud to have worked with Essie Justice Group’s brilliant and growing team to lift up their work on Black Mama’s Bail Out Day since 2017 when they became the California lead for the Mother’s Day action of the National Bail Out Campaign. Change Consulting organized a press conference for the action each year in Oakland, Los Angeles or virtually through 2020 and built and helped implement earned media...
Black Futures Lab + Black to the Future Action Fund
Black Futures Lab + Black to the Future Action Fund
Founded in 2018, Black Futures Lab and Black to the Future Action Funds were founded to make Black people powerful in politics. They help transform Black communities into constituencies that build Black political power in cities and states by enacting policy that improves the lives of Black people, and elects Black legislators with progressive values who move progressive policies. Change Consulting is helping promote major initiatives and increase the visibility...
Advancement Project California
Advancement Project California
Working closely with Advancement Project California, Change Consulting developed and executed a communications strategy to promote its first-of-its-kind initiative, RACE COUNTS, which measured racial equity by performance, disparity, and impact in all of California’s 58 counties in the areas of democracy, economic opportunity, safety and justice, access to healthcare, healthy built environments, education and housing. We conducted comprehensive research on earned and digital media coverage of racial disparities across California,...
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...
Center for Youth Wellness
Center for Youth Wellness
The Center for Youth Wellness, an organization in San Francisco’s Bayview founded to heal, prevent and reduce the impact of childhood adversity, aimed to spark a statewide movement. As part of the goal, CYW hosted a summit on adverse childhood experiences. We created core messaging for the summit, framing it as the first-statewide summit on the issue. We also named the summit, Children Can Thrive, and created and implemented an...
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...
Rosenberg Foundation
Rosenberg Foundation
The Rosenberg Foundation, a philanthropic organization in San Francisco established in 1935 at the bequest of California business leader Max L. Rosenberg, has provided close to 2,800 grants totaling nearly $80 million to regional, statewide and national organizations advocating for racial and economic justice throughout California. As part of our long-term and ongoing work with the foundation, we helped the organization brand and launch a new fund that aims to...