Our Approach

Griffin|Schake is an innovative firm that employs a campaign-style approach to strategic communications, all in the service of social change.

Given their professional backgrounds, founding partners Chad Griffin and Kristina Schake bridge three worlds — the creative and celebrity world of Los Angeles, the media world of New York City, and the political world of Washington, DC. Within this vein, Griffin|Schake works with change-making individuals, foundations and philanthropic organizations, non-profit and advocacy groups, as well as socially responsible companies, to help them promote critical social issues, elevate their profiles, advance their causes and achieve their visions

We are a full-service strategy firm that specializes in creating cause communications campaigns that begin with strategic planning, message and brand development and are executed by aggressive media strategy and relations, cause marketing across all media platforms, public affairs and relationship building, political consulting and campaign management and advertising

• Actor & Director Rob Reiner
• California First Lady Maria Shriver
• Chris Albrecht
• Janet and Jerry Zucker
• Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher
• Michael S. Smith
• Brian Kabateck
• U.S. Green Building Council
• The Women's Conference
• A Women's Nation
• Free The Slaves – The Freedom Awards
• The California Endowment
• HBO
• CuresNow
• Parents’ Action for Children
• National Academy of Science’s Science & Entertainment Exchange
• Live Earth
• Entertainment Industry Foundation
• Kaiser Permanente
• The New Yorker Summit: The Next 100 Days
• Make It Right

Griffin|Schake’s team of consultants has political campaign and fundraising experience that covers local, state and national government, including City Hall, Statehouse, Capitol Hill and The White House. Griffin| Schake has also worked on some of the nation’s largest initiative campaigns and has taken on the toughest fights against the most entrenched, well-financed interests.

• No on Proposition 8 – Elimination of Marriage Rights for Same Sex Couples Initiative
• Senator Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Campaign for President
• Yes on Proposition 87 – California's Clean Alternative Energy Initiative
• Yes on Proposition 82 – California's Pre-School for All Initiative
• Yes on Proposition 71 – California's Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative
• Senator John Kerry's 2004 Campaign for President
• Governor Howard Dean's 2004 Campaign for President
• No on Proposition 28: Repeal of California's Tobacco Surtax for Early Childhood Development Programs
• Yes on Proposition 10: California's Tobacco Surtax for Early Childhood Development Programs
• Rally to Save Ahmanson Ranch

Read Griffin | Schake's Case Studies to learn more about the results we achieve for our clients.

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