In our capacity as staff consultants and strategic advisers to the Center for Judicial Excellence, the KRC team coordinates all of the nonprofit's public relations, advocacy and special projects work.

At the end of 2008, we produced CJE's photo exhibit - Family Court Crisis: Surviving A Broken System which premiered on December 2, 2008 in Washington D.C. at Justice for Children's annual fundraiser. This moving national photo exhibit was produced in partnership with photographer James Hall. The exhibit has since been displayed twice in Sacramento, and was featured in the Capitol Weekly in April 2009.

Family Court Crisis: Our Children at Risk, CJE's documentary produced and directed by KRC, was screened in a host of venues in 2008, including state, national & international conferences. Click here to watch the trailer online. This online version was viewed by over 10,000 people in 2008 and scores more in the first half of 2009.

The documentary and photo exhibit are slated to be shown at two upcoming forums co-hosted by CJE, which are also being managed by the KRC team -- a Sonoma County Family Law Community Forum and a day-long Alameda County Family Law Hearing hosted in collaboration with Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele. Click here to read more about these and other exciting events on the CJE website (oh yes, we manage CJE's web presence too!).

KRC continues to support CJE's work in Sacramento:

• Mobilizing CJE's network of supporters through education and grassroots organizing, consistently turning out crowds to participate in legislative hearings, advocacy meetings and judicial events.
• Collaborating with California state representatives to support CJE's legislative priorities -- including Assemblyman Jim Beall's AB 612 (Child Custody - Non-Scientific Theories) and Assemblyman Jim Neilsen's AB 375 (Child Custody - Child Sexual Abuse).
• Drafting a bill to create a statewide Judicial Performance Evaluations Program to bolster accountability in the California courts.
• Working with the California Protective Parents Association and Marin Senator Mark Leno to submit a letter to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) requesting a performance audit of the California family courts. We worked with Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Sally Lieber to draft the letter before she was termed out last year (click here to read a Capitol Weekly article about it).
• Working with allies to keep the California Judiciary's Elkins Family Law Task Force accountable - click here to read more from the Capitol Weekly...

When AFN was looking to launch a new initiative in the tradition of their successful Alaska Marketplace Competition, they knew where to come for soup-to-nuts planning and execution! The KRC team is providing everything from logistics management and planning, to graphic and web design, media outreach and intake of competition entries.

This innovative competition is crafted to encourage Native thinkers from across Alaska, Hawaii and the entire United States to put their ideas about the current economy and our prospects for recovery down on paper. Six lucky winners will walk away with $10,000 cash and have their essays published. We are working on behalf of AFN with the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement and the National Congress of American Indians to spread the word far and wide.

Learn more about the competition at www.nativeinsight.org or click on the image above to download a competition poster. Entries are due September 15, 2009!

AFN's Alaska Marketplace 'ideas competition' distributed a pot of nearly $1 million in award money to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for encouraging economic growth in rural Alaska in 2008.

AFN hired the KRC team to help spruce up the Alaska Marketplace logo (at right), create new materials and revamp AlaskaMarketplace.org. Working with our fabulous graphic designer Susan Bercu, we produced a 12-page brochure about the 2007 competition and a corresponding six-page Alaska Marketplace Business Idea Application.

During the first week of June, we created three separate 30 second PSAs to encourage Alaska residents to apply to this year's competition. We partnered with Blueberry Productions to produce top-notch television spots to run statewide on GCI cable networks. Click the following links to view each of the three PSAs: PSA 1, PSA 2, PSA 3 ~ Please be patient as each video may take up to a minute to load. If you need to download Quicktime click here.

At the same time, we produced four distinct full-page print ads to run in nearly all of the major daily and weekly newspapers across Alaska, from the 6 Alaska Newspapers publications to the Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Juneau Empire. Click here to view one of our ads.