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The Word That Cost Nine Points
Potential Energy Coalition discovered that a single bad word can drain support from a good climate policy. So it built a nonprofit advertising shop that treats every slogan as a hypothesis - and every audience as a jury.
SAESHE Learned to Make Public Messages Feel Personal
The Los Angeles agency built a business by translating big institutional goals into messages that work in particular communities - then measuring what happened next.
At Burton School District, one size doesn't fit 4,829 students
In Porterville, California, Burton pairs neighborhood schools with a charter pathway through high school. Its more revealing experiment is how to give different students different kinds of help - inside one public district.
At Standard Middle School, belonging has a lunch period
A Bakersfield public school made weekly lunches part of its approach to inclusion. The revealing detail is how much preparation went into something as ordinary as sitting together.
KP Public Affairs knows who needs convincing
A newspaper carrier, a cannabis shopper and a state legislator have more in common than you might think. For this Sacramento firm, the work begins with figuring out what each needs to hear - and who they will believe.
TIV Branding found its niche in the storm drain
The family agency behind Streets to Creeks learned to make public problems personal. Its own turning point came when it stopped trying to market to everyone.
Gold Trail’s big education in a small school district
A children’s museum, fifth-grade band, and eighth graders who show younger pupils the ropes. In California’s Gold Country, Gold Trail is trying to keep a broad education within a small district’s means.
Prosio Communications Wants California to Pay Attention
Air-quality alerts, safer roads, rent relief: the Roseville agency turns public policy into public messages. Its contracts show the craft, cost and complications of getting people to act.
The Charter Network That Beat the Odds - and the Rankings
A single Harlem school that opened with 165 kids in 2006 now tops New York State's math rankings and expands into Florida. Here is how Success Academy built it, and who is paying for it.
The Company Running Public Schools Like a Network - and Teaching Courage on Tuesdays
National Heritage Academies has spent three decades turning a Grand Rapids experiment into a 103-school operating system. Its pitch is consistency: centralized support, measurable academics and a character curriculum built around one virtue at a time.