Brian Winfield of Equality Florida addresses his audience.

Here's a sample of what our clients have to say about working with us:

"Your training was OUTSTANDING! ... I cannot thank you enough for your great work. This is so helpful to the nonprofit community. Especially small, rural nonprofits. "
-Terry Garner, CA Association of Food Banks


"Thanks to your timely advice we had three separate articles in the paper before the conference, one radio interview, two TV interviews, and one follow-up article. It gave us a level of exposure that we didn't have. Our message actually started to resonate with folks and it helped the attendance."
-Brent Dillabaugh, HACBED (Hawaii Alliance for Community Based Economic Development)


"Thanks again for making this wonderful training available to small groups working in isolated regions of the country. Your professional, useful and accessible expertise is much needed and appreciated. And you made my job of expanding the progressive community much, much easier!"
-Lorna Voight, Utah Progessive Network


"I attended the Spin Academy in the summer of 2004, and have incorporated the framing and messaging workshops into our regional Latinas Organizing for Leadership and Advocacy (LOLA) trainings. We’ve done trainings so far in New York and Chicago, and our communications section is always well-received and useful to our participants. I had an amazing time at the academy and thanks so much for having me!"
-Alexandra DelValle, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health


"The SPIN Academy is unique, the only training program of its kind that we know of in the U.S., and I feel lucky that I was chosen to attend. The Academy is a great opportunity for activists to take a step back, think about how communications can and should be integrated in their work, and go back with a plan."
-Joann Lo, Garment Workers Center


"With the skills I learned, I will be more prepared when making a press release presentation with the media, but more importantly, be able to start using strategic skills from the planning stage of our campaigns."
-Angelica Barrera, Pesiticide Action Network North America (PANNA)


"The most important lesson I have learned is that communications, while
typically considered a step-child relative to programming and development,
is an integral part of any organization's overall strategic plan. Planning
and implementing a communications strategy has to happen at the beginning,
not the end, of each and every program."
-Brian Winfield, Equality Florida