Equal Justice Campaign | Neighborhood Legal Services • 13th October 2020

Blog - Domestic Abuse and Legal Aid

When Charlotte* agreed to marry a man who had already hurt her, she didn’t think of him as an abuser.

4th October 2020

5 Things Not to Do After a Fundraising Campaign

The good news: You can take steps right now to ensure the next campaign is less stressful and even more successful. Just make sure you don’t fall into the “We’ll tackle that in a month or two” trap.

Ghostwriting • 4th October 2020

Waiting for Your Call: Asian American Millennials

For Asian Americans, not voting is a strong predictor of remaining uninvolved in all social issues, including causes intended to improve people’s lives.

Aging is Cool • 29th January 2020

Why Friends are Better Than Doctors

Guest post

Neighborhood Legal Services • 3rd January 2020

Ghostwriting - Legal aid services

Imagine moving in with your aging mother to care for her in the family home. After five, 10, 15 years, she passes away, and you stay in the home because … well, it’s where you live. You’ve been keeping up with the utility bills and mortgage payments, cutting the grass, fixing the leaks in the ceiling. It’s your home, too.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation • 25th September 2018

Ghostwriting - US Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Collaboration on Social Issues Helps Earn Young Americans’ Trust

Health blog • 17th July 2019

Myths and Truths About Wine and Chocolate

Every day, patients see articles about a new study proclaiming the health benefits of wine and chocolate. Can wine and chocolate actually be good for you?

Web Content • 22nd October 2018

Collaboration on Social Issues Helps Earn Young Americans’ Trust

Focusing on one aspect of national influence study.

Web Content • 16th May 2018

How Play Therapy Helps Heal Childhood Trauma

At his first appointment at the Center for Child Counseling for childhood trauma, 8-year-old Thomas* asked his trauma therapist if she “liked to hurt kids, too.”

Johnson Memorial Health blog • 17th July 2019

6 Easy Ways to Improve Your Heart’s Health

It’s February, and if you already feel a little guilty about the New Year’s Resolutions you’ve let slip, you are not alone. Fortunately, a resolution to boost your heart’s health can be easier to keep than you think!

Achieve blog • 27th September 2017

5 Things Not to Do After a Fundraising Campaign

You can take steps right now to ensure the next campaign is less stressful and even more successful. Just make sure you don’t fall into the “We’ll tackle that in a month or two” trap.

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library blog • 19th April 2016

The Joy of Censorship: A Fiery Defense of the First Amendment

The good news and the bad news: Joe Raiola isn’t likely to run out of material for his one-man show, The Joy of Censorship, any time soon. With the release of the documentary Bully and its R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, Raiola has a new topic on which to unleash his ability to find humor in the absurd.

LinkedIn • 11th August 2017

Making Data Analytics Work for Freelancers

Most freelancers don’t do an adequate job reporting back to their clients on how they did.

Huffington Post • 19th October 2017

Stereotypes Aside: Millennials Locally, Nationally Are Acting for Change

Millennials (born 1980-2000) have been tarred by the same brush for quite a while now: Apathetic. Self-centered. Not politically active. And no matter what data someone presents to the contrary, stereotypes refuse to bend. But they need to.

Achieve blog • 15th August 2017

4 ways not to choose a hero your nonprofit story

It all boils down to one thing: Don’t let too much of an internal focus derail your fundraising efforts.

Freelance Austin Blog • 26th April 2017

Video Brings the Freelancer to Life: Meeting Recap, Freelance Austin

Should freelancers use video to market their businesses? The answer, says photographer and videographer Matthew Lemke, is an unequivocal yes.

Freelance Austin Blog • 13th March 2017

3 Cool Places to Work Remotely in Austin: Freelance Austin

Some freelancers in the communications business can work just about anywhere. For others, like me, my location influences everything about my final product.

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library • 22nd January 2013

Jim Lehrer Strives to “Write like Vonnegut”

Jim Lehrer (of PBS NewsHour fame) had his first novel published in 1966. It was satire, he said. But when the editor of The Texas Observer met with him after writing a so-so review and told Lehrer, “Have you read any Kurt Vonnegut? Go read Cat’s Cradle and call me back,” he did just that.

Achieve blog • 19th April 2016

The Psychology of Storytelling

As a nonprofit professional, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you know that storytelling – sharing the real stories of real people whose lives were enriched by your help – is the best way to reach potential donors. More and more, causes are using stories in their solicitations. So why do they sometimes not work?

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library • 25th July 2012

Slaughterhouse-Five Removal: One Year Later

Banning books never works. Just ask Kurt Vonnegut.