We Like

PEOPLE WE LIKE TO WORK WITH

In the spirit of partnership, the LightBox Collaborative often bands together with other consultants and firms to produce the best possible results for clients. Frequent partners include:

  • Visceral – Specializing in digital media, Visceral offers design, web site development, content management systems, and search engine optimization.
  • Hershey|Cause – Harnesses the power of communications to shape the debate on important topics, raise much needed funds, and brand an organization in ways that generate double bottom line results.
  • Mission Minded – A marketing communications consulting firm with a client list comprised exclusively of nonprofits and foundations with big things to accomplish.
  • Office PDX – This Portland-based design studio’s “blue-collar mid-century modern” aesthetic harkens back to the 1950’s when form, function, affordability, and design without pretense were combined to create social change.
  • Quicksilver Foundry – Blending brand discipline and strategic planning, Quicksilver helps clients focus, align, and communicate for impact.
  • DataSprout Consulting – Offering evaluation and information design for good causes, DataSprout harnesses the power for information to drive change.
  • Douglas Gould and Company – Helping progressive nonprofit organizations and foundations use the most effective communications tools to advance important causes.
  • Full Court Press – A full-service agency assisting companies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations with public relations, public affairs, and crisis communications.

IDEAS WE LIKE

These are smart folks publishing invaluable resources, which we are pleased to recommend:

  • Andy Goodman and The Goodman Center – Providing convenient online marketing communications workshops for nonprofits, Andy Goodman is a consummate storyteller and pro presenter. He can help you become one too!
  • Spitfire Strategies – A national consulting firm offering nonprofits and foundations top-notch strategic communications and campaign planning, and training. Spitfire publications—such as the Smart Chart, Activation Point, and Just Enough Planning Guide—are essential resources for nonprofit communications.
  • Nancy Schwartz – Nancy’s “Getting Attention” blog is a constant source of ideas, tactics, and tips for nonprofit communicators focused on helping their organizations succeed through effective marketing.

SMART WORK WE LIKE

In addition, there are a number of smart communications consultants whose work we admire and applaud:

  • Your Message Media – Provides a full range of strategic communications services to nonprofit organizations.
  • Neimand Collaborative – Supports social change through policy, politics, and consumerism.
  • Design Action Collective – Serves the movement for social justice with multi-lingual print and web design capabilities, as well as interactive and “new media” services.
  • Brotherton Strategies – A Seattle-based communications and public affairs consulting firm that provides politically informed, highly creative and media-savvy counsel to a broad mix of corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit clients.
  • Big Duck NYC – Works exclusively with nonprofit organizations to transform the way they communicate.
  • Courage Corps – Built on the belief that we must collaborate in new ways and with new partners in order to create wide-scale, sustaining social change and to accelerate how quickly that happens.
  • Big Thinks Studios – Provides advertising and design for social change. We admire their philosophy: “The best way to make the world a better place is to do what we’re good at: strategy, advertising, and graphic design.”

EVENTS WE LIKE

There are a handful events where we are lucky enough to run into the smart, likable folks noted above. These include:

  • The SPIN Academy – Convenes activists from across the country for intensive communications training.
  • True Spin Conference – Brings together flacks from progressive advocacy groups around the country to exchange ideas and learn new and creative PR tactics.
  • The Communications Network Annual Conference – Gathers professional communicators in philanthropy to learn, share, and challenge each other toward more effective practices.
  • The Nonprofit Technology Conference – Sponsored by the Nonprofit Technology Network, this annual event offers opportunity for connection and learning to transform technology into social change.