i. e. communications, LLC is proud to have worked with a wide range of
foundations and nonprofit organizations committed to making a difference
in the quality of life for people in California and throughout the United
States. The following is a list of clients. We provided a description of
the types of projects we have completed to illustrate the innovative
strategies developed.

Action Alliance for Children
Develop a media relations strategy for organization's first-ever award for children advocates. Consult on award development and planning.


Americans for Safe Access
Research and create communications strategy to further policy goals to protect the rights of patients and doctors to use marijuana for medical purposes.


Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Provide researched-based plan to include reframed messages and revised or new materials to better inform their target audiences.


Asian Pacific Fund
Develop a plan for designing and implementing the Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Awards program


California Alliance for Child and Family Services
Research and produce messages and materials to enhance the organization’s ability to advocate for reform and educate policymakers and general public.


California Children and Families Commission
Create messages and materials and conduct communications workshops and technical assistance for Proposition 10 county commissions.


California Credit Union League
Conduct an audit of all of the League’s publications and media relations materials to provide recommendations for more effective communications and policy advocacy program.


California Department of Justice
Provide support to the California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Office through planning nine regional forums involving 1,400 policymakers, creating a website and producing a policy report.


The California Endowment
Develop and implement a media campaign celebrating four community-based organizations' effectiveness on improving community health.


California Health and Human Services Agency
Manage the interagency Child Indicator Initiative to develop 20 indicators capable of measuring improvements in children's well-being.


California HealthCare Foundation
Create a research-based communications strategy for the CHART-3 project (hospital reporting) for a variety of stakeholders.


California Parks and Recreation Society
Conduct multiple projects including creation and implementation of a communications strategy to publicize the importance of parks and recreation programs and their professionals in building strong, safe communities and develop a communications and media strategy for statewide conference.


California Secretary of State's Office
Develop a curriculum to provide each public high school in California with materials and a presentation that will encourage youth civic participation measured, in part, by voter registration.


California Tomorrow
Conduct an internal study to guide the organization's strategic planning process to build on their 20 years of action research, policy advocacy, and capacity building.


The California Wellness Foundation
Develop foundation's overall communications strategy as well as implement individual media relations projects.


The California Wellness Foundation's Violence Prevention Initiative
Create and implement a multi-year, multi-faceted public education campaign, Choices for Youth, to increase resources to prevent violence against youth in California. Received 2002 Silver Award for Public Information Campaigns from the Council on Foundations.


Center for Investigative Reporting
Formulate a communications plan and oversee the organizing of local forums to screen CIR’s documentary, Nuestra Familia, Our Family, to spur community discussion and promote gang prevention policies at the local and state levels. 


Civic Engagement Project for Children and Families
Funded by the Miriam & Peter Haas Fund, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, the James Irvine Foundation, the David& Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Peninsula Community Foundation, provide strategic communications for eight Prop 10 county commissions to increase involvement of under-represented communities in planning for programs for children 0 to 5.


Corporation for Supportive Housing
Create an over-all communications plan for and individual technical assistance programs for grantees of the Frequent Users of Health Services Initiative, funded by The California Endowment and The California HealthCare Foundation.


East Bay Community Foundation
Develop and test messages for the community foundation to use in increasing its asset base.


Experience Corps San Francisco
Coordinate a statewide forum to explore how older adults may be a key part of the solution to the workforce challenge in after school programs.


Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
Provide strategy and general consulting for communications and policy advocacy strategies, tactics and materials.


Foster Youth Alliance/Honoring Emancipated Youth
Develop a communications strategy for a statewide campaign to provide safe and supportive housing for former foster youth.


Foundation Consortium
Develop and implement a statewide communications strategy advocating to improve the well-being of California's children and their families. Assisted in agenda development and coordinated numerous statewide conferences for organization.


Foundation Incubator
Create and execute a communications and media relations strategy to announce the formation of the Foundation Incubator, which works with new and emerging foundations to stimulate philanthropy.


Haigh-Scatena Foundation
Develop a brochure about and provide media relations to announce the grant for The California Juvenile Justice Reentry Partnership, a privately funded initiative for policy and practice reforms to improve release outcomes for youth.


Iris Alliance Fund
Design a communications and media relations strategy for the newly formed mental health organization. Research the portrayal of mental health in the national and local media. Evaluate effectiveness of existing public education campaigns and communications strategies.


Joyce Foundation
Produce a research-based strategic plan, including policy agenda, messages, tactics, and tools, for a statewide campaign on gun policy reform in Illinois


Keeping Youth Safe: Strategies that Work to Prevent Violence
Produce a statewide videoconference to inform and educate state and local policymakers on the need for investment in youth violence prevention with uplinks from Los Angeles and Sacramento and downlinks to seven additional sites in the state. Received 2005 Gold Award for Public Policy Campaigns from the Council on Foundations.


Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
A national media campaign to inform the public about a class action lawsuit on behalf of African American and Latino car buyers who claim they are charged higher interest rates for car loans.


Legal Community Against Violence
Design a communications and media relations strategy in moving forward the vision of reducing violence in their second decade. In 2007, create research based statewide campaign to pass meaningful gun laws in Illinois, based on strategy developed with a grant from the Joyce Foundation.


Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council
Research and design a communications plan and new identity for the Children's Planning Council, which was created to improve conditions for children through collaboration between local government and communities.


Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Coordinate a groundbreaking conference to advance mental health services in schools.


Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
Update and expand the data available on www.kidsdata.org, a source for information about children’s health and well being in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in California


Marin Abused Women's Services
Create a suite of social marketing materials including posters and an extensive "tool kit" of materials to help domestic violence prevention advocates throughout the country recruit and train new volunteers based on the model of transforming communities.


Marin Community Foundation
Develop a research-based strategic communications plan to raise awareness of the foundation's projects and increase philanthropic giving.


Moss Beach Homes
Develop a research-based communications plan to increase awareness of the organization’s services, capacities and resources in support of its vision to “take collective action to support communities and families as they love and care for their children.”


Murray & Howard LLP
Media relations to inform consumers of class action settlements.


Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust
Create a communications strategy and materials to raise the visibility of a new initiative to improve regional health.


Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Generate social marketing materials to help recruit activists to lobby Congress.


RSVP of San Francisco
Develop a communications strategy and suite of materials in an effort to promote volunteerism to the growing retiring boomer population.


San Francisco Beacon Initiative
Develop a multi-faceted communications strategy to build public and political support for a public-private partnership to create youth and family centers in public schools.


SFOP
Develop a researched-based plan to include new messages and materials that better inform target audiences and further overall strategic goals, including building community leaders in San Francisco, influencing public officials, and leveraging their 25th anniversary.


Sierra Health Foundation
Design, plan and outreach for their first-ever national conference on health and community building. Conduct research on the portrayal of community building in national and local print media.


Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center
Develop a graphic identity, name, tagline and customized communications plan.


Threshold 2008
Create a strategic communications plan and created messages and materials to build the public voice for housing policies and solutions in San Mateo County.


United Airlines
Train and create follow-up communications to transform employees into grassroots lobbyists.


United Way of the Bay Area
Conduct multiple projects including initiation and shaping of a positive public policy dialogue about the ongoing and increasing testing in Bay Area public schools and research and distribution of a report focusing on the status of youth safety in the Bay Area.


Urban Strategies Council
Conduct multiple projects including: research, communications strategies, and create a business plan for the United Parcel Service Youth Workforce Development partnership.


Women's Educational Media
Develop a communications and marketing plan for "Let’s Get Real," a documentary film for middle school students to prevent bullying.


Youth Law Center
Since 2004, participate in strategy sessions and taskforce committee meetings to improve outcomes for youth in the juvenile justice system and develop communications plan and materials for the Juvenile Justice Data Project.