Strategic Media

Jeff Gillenkirk is a professional media strategist, public relations consultant and direct mail copywriter with more than 30 years experience.  He provides a full-range of media services including analysis of your company’s or organization's media needs, goals and capacity, promotion of issues and events with media outlets, and preparation of 'deliverables' such as reports, press advisories and releases, brochures, direct mail communications and press packets.

Strategic Media Clients (partial list):
National Network of Grantmakers
Public Citizen
Working Assets Long Distance
Communities for a Better Environment
Peninsula Open Space Trust (Menlo Park, CA)
Eco-Timber
Food First (Institute for Food and Development Policy)
Death Penalty Focus
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Western States Center
National Lawyers Guild
Funding Exchange
Friends of the Urban Forest (San Francisco)
California Budget Project
California Food Policy Advocates
Pacific News Service
Institute for Global Communications
The Working Group
Independent Media Institute
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Community Legal Services of Alameda County
Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1555

Direct Mail

Jeff has written direct mail fundraising and membership solicitation letters since 1979 for a variety of individuals and non-profit and political organizations.  Clients include the Sierra Club, Trust for Public Land, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Greenpeace, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the ACLU, the Fund for a Democratic Majority, SeniorPAC, Ronald V. Dellums for U.S. Congress, NOW, Handgun Control, Inc., Children International, the International Rescue Fund, Medical Aid for El Salvador, Neighbor to Neighbor, Golden Gate Parks Association, California State Parks Foundation, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), the Pacifica Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council, La Raza, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and many more.  Among the prominent individuals who have signed letters he has written are:

President Bill Clinton
Vice-president Walter Mondale
New York Governor Mario Cuomo
United States Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
United States Representative Nancy Pelosi ((D-CA)
United States Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
United States Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)
United States Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
United States Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
United States Senator Paul Simon
United States Senator Barbara Boxer
United States Representative Thomas "Tip" O’Neil (D-MA)
United States Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA)
United States Representative Edward Markey (D-MA)
United States Representative Claude Pepper (D-FL)
United States Representative Pete McCloskey (R-CA)
Robert Redford, actor, environmentalist
Martin Sheen, actor, human rights activist
Mike Farrell, actor, human rights activist
Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News
United States Representative Ronald V. Dellums
United States Representative Patricia Schroeder
United States Representative Tony Coehlo
Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas