| "Whether it’s campaign strategizing, blockbuster full-page ads, designs and logos, or direct mail fundraising, PMC has been crucial to the success of Earth Island Institute and our projects for more than 20 years. We're honored to have them on our team."
David Phillips,
Executive Director
Earth Island Institute
"For more than fifteen years,
Public Media Center has been a strong, effective collaborator
in the fight to rein in tobacco interests, loosen their hold
on our elected officials and eliminate the largest preventable
cause of death in America."
Stanton A. Glantz,
Ph.D
Professor, UCSF School of Medicine and anti-tobacco activist
leader
"Public Media Center made it easy
to promote the Buck Tobacco Sponsorship campaign. They produced
professional, hard-hitting ads and beautiful collateral materials
that made our project look great! PMC has decades of experience
in a wide variety of advocacy advertising, they have a wealth
of knowledge about what kinds of advocacy ads work well in
different types of publications, and their designers and editors
are absolutely top-notch."
Andrea Craig
Dodge
Buck Tobacco Sponsorship Project, Public Health Institute
"I just want to thank all of you
for the great work you’ve done on the condoms4life campaign.
All over the world people are raving about the ads, the brochure,
etc. I hope you all take comfort in the important contribution
this campaign will make in preventing the spread of AIDS and
in sending a positive message about the right to be sexual,
to express love and to do so safely and responsibly. Many
thanks to all of you for this campaign and for the important
work PMC has done on every critical issue that has faced the
progressive movement for the last century!"
Frances Kissling,
President
Catholics for a Free Choice
"In a world of recycled ideas and
images, Public Media Center stands apart for the freshness
of their creative approach to complex issues."
Roger Rathman,
Associate Vice President - Public Affairs
Planned Parenthood of New York City
"Public Media Center consistently
and effectively brings clarity, incisiveness, strength of message,
and a cutting-edge style to activist campaigns for positive
social change. PMC's help and guidance in media, marketing and
communications over the years has been a key component in GPRC's
growth as we work to make the Buffalo Commons not only a practical
reality but an integral cultural and social movement. I have
watched Public Media Center provide the same clarity and assistance
for many others. In my opinion, the whole, interconnected progressive
movement worldwide would be poorer without PMC."
Jarid Manos, Executive
Director
Great Plains Restoration Council
"PMC combined powerful images with
incisive language to convey the mission of our advocacy work
and to polish the look of our publications. We were happy
with their work as well as their responsiveness to our needs.
A talented, generous and inspired group. We need more media
advocates with conscience and heart."
Mary Beth Love,
Ph.D., Chair and Professor
Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University
(partner on the Community Action to Fight Asthma project)
"Public Media Center has been
a strategic resource and fierce ally for us at the Center
for Rural Strategies. They’ve been integral in helping
us design and launch campaigns that work. If you find yourself
in a fight, it’s good to have a Public Media Center
watching your back."
Dee Davis,
Executive Director
Center for Rural Strategies
"PMC has been invaluable in helping
us strategize victories for the oceans over the years and
inspiring us to aim high. With the help of PMC, our campaigns
have grown more ambitious and bolder every year—from
closing the notorious sea turtle slaughterhouse in Mexico,
securing a marine protected area for the critically endangered
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, to securing warning labels
of mercury-laden seafood in all California supermarkets. With
the help of PMC, we will continue to take on the most powerful
governments and corporations who attempt to despoil our environment
and diminish a sustainable future for our children."
Todd Steiner,
Executive Director
Sea Turtle Restoration Project
"Working with PMC has successfully
improved all of our communication and media products. They
helped us evolve from the homegrown to professional, which
makes a big difference with all of our supporters."
Tina Batt,
Executive Director
Muir Heritage Land Trust
"For the last 20 years Public Media
Center has generously and insightfully supported our film
production and distribution campaigns, which has directly
helped the Native American communities we work with. Invaluable
advice, smart people, visionary politics, we owe a lot of
our success to PMC’s great work."
Toby McLeod
Sacred Land Film Project of Earth Island Institute
"Marion, Laurie and I started working
with PMC even before we opened California Food Policy Advocates
in 1992. We depended on PMC for design work—logo, letterhead
and such—and it has all held up so well, looking as
fresh and ‘right’ as ever. But we also looked
to PMC for help on substance, too: at a macro-level, focusing
on our goals and objectives, and at a micro-level, as well.
Our documents and materials have benefited from the thoughtful
approach that PMC has given them, making sure they reflected
the strategies and purposes we jointly developed. Whatever
successes we have achieved over these 15 years owe an enormous
debt to PMC’s very full partnership with us."
Ken Hecht,
Executive Director
California Food Policy Advocates
"Clearly, the work of Public Media
Center has been an important part of the successes here in
China…so you have my thanks for the Center’s exceptional
work, which has been noted by our Chinese colleagues repeatedly…"
Susan V. Berresford,
President
The Ford Foundation
"You and your team did an impressive
job on the lower power radio ads and I am grateful. The big
guys would already have won except for your efforts…"
Bill Moyers
"…Public Media Center’s
campaign has helped our community-based efforts to educate
the public and we’ve certainly shaken things up with
the media and with policy makers!"
Julia Carol,
Former Executive Director
Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights
"…Public Media Center’s
campaign is truly incredible, and unlike any I have seen…
It helped the California Nurses Association to emerge as the
new political force to be reckoned with in California…thank
you for staying true to the fight and helping us to tackle
the huge health care conglomerates in our battle for the health
of patients the rights of nurses…"
Rose Ann DeMoro,
Executive Director
California Nurses Association
"We count on PMC for more than the
high quality social and political advertising campaigns you
develop, but also for your strategic expertise and media savvy…your
campaign on behalf of Los Alamos scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee
helped turn the tide of public opinion at a crucial time in
the government’s case….we are extremely grateful
for the incredibly effective campaigns that PMC provides when
they are most needed and without cost—to the activists
and communities who so badly need a public voice."
Diane T. Chin,
Executive Director
Chinese for Affirmative Action
"We have consulted with PMC on
public policy issues on a regular basis and looked to them
as leaders in consumer education. Their creativity and knowledge
about the best way to reach an audience and how to explain
complex issues in clear, understandable language, is outstanding."
Harry M. Snyder,
Senior Advocate
West Coast Regional Office of Consumer’s Union
"We are especially grateful that
PMC did not charge us any fees for the voter education campaign
they produced for us…this meant we could put all of
the money we raised directly into reaching many additional
millions of citizens and the ‘hits’ on our website
went up significantly during the campaign. PMC was able to
quickly turn our ideas into excellent print-ready ads and
we were grateful for the flexibility PMC showed while working
with us…although we had an extremely tight time-frame
to work in, with their help, we did it!"
Lois Barber,
Executive Director
EarthAction
"PMC has been indispensable in establishing
Gay Men’s Health Crisis as the nation’s premier
AIDS advocacy advocate…their initiative and assistance
enabled us to secure our first-ever foundation support for
our advertising campaigns…and PMC also provided us with
valuable counsel on a variety of other projects, including
efforts to define and position major AIDS policy issues in
a way that maximized attention among the media and major decision-makers…"
Joseph G. Del
Ponte, former Director of Communications at Gay Men's
Health Crisis, Inc. (Deceased)
"PMC is widely known as the preeminent
public interest advertising firm in the country. Their highly
effective campaigns have helped both large and small public
interest groups carry their messages through the hardened
shell surrounding public debates. When I was with the Schumann
Foundation and later with Ozone Action, PMC masterfully helped
to develop media plans, design them, and place them, as well
as develop an effective organizational model and comprehensive
strategy. Financial support to PMC leverages their expertise
over a wide array of grassroots groups who might otherwise
resign themselves to the opinion that they can’t ‘afford’
to do media. PMC knows they can’t afford not to."
John Passacantando,
former Executive Director,
Ozone Action; and current Executive Director, Greenpeace USA
"I am very proud to be a part of
the innovative and proactive domestic violence public awareness
media campaign Public Media Center has produced for us. More
than a year into our two-year project, your action kit, newspaper
ads, bus wrap and television commercials are powerful and
potentially life-saving. We know from many of the calls to
our toll-free telephone line that the campaign has already
inspired people to action… Your efforts are making a
difference."
Mary Struhs,
former Associate Director
Women Escaping a Violent Environment (WEAVE)
"PMC works for causes and often
helps create them, but PMC itself is also a cause, relying
on those few who understand the value of what we do, who can
see our hand at work behind the scenes and behind the headlines,
and who understand the critical role of media in shaping political
perceptions and public priorities—to help sustain us."
Jerry Mander,
former Public Media Center Senior Fellow,
author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television,
In the
Absence of the Sacred and The Case Against the Global Economy,
Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization
"I am astonished by the breadth
of issues PMC addresses every year, and the vision they bring
to each. I can always recognize one of their ads because it
asks fundamental questions about the choices we are making,
and forces people to look into their hearts and re-examine
their values."
Denis Hayes,
President
The Bullitt Foundation
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