FOUNDATIONS & NON-PROFITS
"ADAM SEGAL OFFERS FOUNDATIONS AND NON-PROFITS AN EYE-OPENING, FRESH APPROACH TO COMMUNICATIONS. HE HAS THE ENERGY, CONTACTS AND NEW COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS TO TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL. HE'LL BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR TEAM."
— Rich Hayes, deputy director of communications at the Union of Concerned Scientists and author of A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media
"ADAM SEGAL'S EFFORTS TO RAISE THE PROFILE OF FOUNDATIONS AND NON-PROFITS ARE INVIGORATING AND INNOVATIVE. NOT ONLY DOES HE PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS ADVICE, BUT HIS WORK IS ALSO INFORMED BY HIS SPECIAL COMMITMENT TO AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT SECTOR."
— Roberta Israeloff, Director, Squire Family Foundation
The 2050 Group has provided exceptional public relations services to foundations and leading non-profit organizations. Adam Segal has helped non-profits, foundations and other organizations with their strategic communications plans and messages. And he has led successful media relations campaigns that have generated national media attention and policy action on a range of issues including climate change/environment, jobs and the economy, health care reform and health education, as well as human rights and international affairs.
In a challenging economy and a rapidly changing media environment, The 2050 Group has helped organizations transform their external communications efforts with strong results.
Adam works with these organizations in two primary ways:
1.) As a communications/media relations consultant (ie. driving marketing campaigns and generating media coverage)
2.) A trainer and strategist working to improve in-house press and communications teams
Services include:
• Communications audits - examining all aspects of past and current communications efforts
• Focus on identifying or developing core missions and messages, reaching key audiences, and building media relations, branding and social media capacity
• Developing a digital diagnosis
• Communications planning, mapping out next steps
• Team building and team work with in-house staff and additional partners, consultants, agencies
• Media relations - relationship-building, outreach, placement, monitoring and reporting
• Event planning, production and promotion
• Writing and editing
• Content development and distribution
• Video production and distribution (with emphasis on Internet distribution)
Clients have included:
• Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University
• Health Foundation for the Americas / National Alliance for Hispanic Health
• Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together Foundation / MATT.org
• National Black Farmers Association
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
• Squire Family Foundation
• Union of Concerned Scientists
Representative media placements:
• Associated Press
• CBS Evening News
• CNN
• Education Week
• The New York Times
• USA Weekend Magazine
• Wall Street Journal
and many more!