Sander Resources spent years helping energy companies explain pipelines. Then it noticed the most important information was arriving in the least useful form - and built a pocket-sized answer for the people first on scene.
OCPSC put public money behind familiar local voices, carrying state information into communities in 56 languages. Its four-year run offers a practical lesson in outreach - and in the limits of a temporary budget.
A bear, a pair of Nobel laureates, and a campaign with no paid media budget: inside the agency that turns worthy causes into things people actually join.
For 35 years, the Alameda agency connected local businesses and public institutions with the people around them. A $200,000 campaign and a rescued newsstand reveal what that work actually meant.