Since 1998, Buckley & Kaldenbach has worked with dozens of clients including publicly-traded companies, government agencies, non-profit organizations, trade associations and individual entrepreneurs.
Highlights of some of our work include:
During the 2009 debate over health care reform, B/K was part of a team tasked with raising the profile of a Seattle-based health care provider in the national media and on Capitol Hill. These efforts helped ensure that language was included into the final legislation, which means that the provider’s health care model can be replicated across the country.
B/K organized a one-day event at the National Press Club for a California-based company where attendees addressed the environmental benefits, safety and national security aspects, and the economic benefits and commercial applications of thorium to an audience of executive branch officials, Capitol Hill staffers, journalists, and members of the diplomatic community.
B/K handled media and analyst relations for a Silicon Valley company that won one of the largest patent lawsuits against one of the world’s largest companies.
From company launch to the actual switchover of phone lines one year later, B/K served as the in-house corporate communications team for one of the Southwest’s largest telecommunications providers.
During the 2008 presidential election, B/K assisted a non-profit organization in raising its profile among the national media by producing a series of op-eds and a media brief on workforce development.
For national cooperative organization, B/K provided media support and outreach for a nationwide contest aimed at recruiting college students to sell satellite technology in their communities.
B/K assisted a publicly-held telecommunications company in rolling out a mobile calling plan targeted at international callers.
For a national membership organization, B/K designed a grassroots advocacy program to mark the group’s 40th anniversary that included articulation of a new national vision for the organization, and a handbook on how to reach out to the media including template media materials and a how-to guide.
B/K developed multi-faceted crisis communications plans for a large multi-national publicly-traded corporation and for a transportation trade association, including preparing materials for the media, senior executives, call center employees, as well as the general public.
B/K was selected by a federal agency and a national safety organization to develop a public safety education program usable by transit agencies across the country despite wide differences in operations, equipment and population served.
B/K managed public and media relations for an organization representing 200 of the world’s largest companies seeking to find a technological solution to illegal file sharing on the Internet.
B/K developed brochures for several transportation trade associations and membership groups that, by succinctly articulating the groups’ messages and delivering them in an attractive and accessible format, helped the groups both gain members and influence policymakers.
In 2004, B/K was selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a Woman-Owned Business Award Winner for a brochure we produced on threats to the nation’s food supply.
B/K assists the legal advocacy wing of one of the nation’s largest grassroots organizations by transforming technical legal documents into press and employee communications materials.
B/K designed a customer services program for an award-winning legal services group, developing the program from the ground up, managing its operation, and creating a marketing plan and materials.
To highlight the challenges facing small telecommunications carriers, B/K organized a facilities tour for an elected official, which garnered a front-page story the local business newspaper.
B/K produced a multi-lingual and multimedia public education campaign for a federal agency that caught the attention of the CBS Morning Show.
B/K successfully pitched a client’s expertise to multiple media outlets, which resulted in an in-depth interview on Public Radio International’s “Marketplace.”
B/K taught a course on crisis communications at a large national transportation convention, and for several semesters guest-taught a segment of a government relations course required of midshipmen in their first year at the U.S. Naval Academy.
