Teak Media’s Clients

Teak Media Communications accepts the responsibility of promoting ethical businesses and nonprofit organizations that lead their industries and market sectors with innovative programs and services. We take our work very seriously, holding ourselves accountable for the news we create and the information the public receives as a result. Our ability to obtain exceptional results for our clients is based on our dedication and commitment to their work. We must believe in what they do in order to sell their stories to the media, and thus, we choose our clients based on their mission and the value of their work.

Here are some of our 2012 clients. Learn more about our clients and our work by visiting www.teakmedia.com.

With quick turn-around time, Teak secured more press than had ever been achieved previously for the Boston Film Festival. Over the festival’s seven-day run, stories and photos ran almost daily in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. National coverage was received in Variety and on National Public Radio. The Boston Film Festival was the number one “hot topic” of conversation on Boston.com for two days. Festival Director Robin Dawson said, “Hiring Teak Media was our best decision this year.”

Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk engaged Teak Media to promote its walks in 2009, 2010 and again in 2011. Teak’s efforts resulted in a front page, above the fold photograph in the Boston Globe, as well as hundreds of print, radio, TV and internet stories for three years straight. Boston Globe Sunday Magazine named the Walk photo one of the 10 best shots of 2010. Getting press for walk-a-thons is a competitive sport in Boston, a city that is the Mecca of athletic fundraising events. Teak Media has a winning formula, which is why the local event was featured on USA Today online and in Woman’s World and Health and the “Today Show.”

The Community Adolescent Resource and Education (Care) Center, Inc. is an alternative education program for teen mothers who have dropped out of school and are working to earn their GED and go on to college. Among the Center’s core beliefs is that people who live in poverty should be exposed to the same intellectual stimulation as people of financial means and they will thrive if they receive it. On Nov. 2, 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama presented The Care Center with the prestigious National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for its innovative humanities courses. In two short months, Teak Media has generated attention for the Care Center in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and pieces are in the works with the New York Times, CSB News, WBUR and “Frontline.”

International OCD Foundation, based in Boston, is THE international organization that is a resource and advocate for OCD patients, families, social workers, and doctors. The IOCDF provides grants for OCD research, facilitates access to support groups across the nation, and its board includes the nation’s top OCD experts. The IOCDF has worked consistently with Teak Media since January 2009 to promote its national work. The results to date include ABC’s “NightLine,” Associated Press, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Time, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald, USA Today and Woman’s Day.

Meridian Academy is an urban, independent, college preparatory secondary school in Brookline, Mass.that integrates progressive, traditional and experiential learning, problem solving and leadership opportunities. Founded in 2005, Meridian Academy is a vibrant, creative community for students in grades 6 through 12. Curriculum atMeridianis interdisciplinary and project-based. There are no grades or tests. Teak Media is proud to bring public and media attention to this soulful school that is so efficiently dedicated to educating children.

New England Aquarium first brought Teak Media on board in March 2008 to promote its national and international research, Boston-based education programs and global conservation efforts through the media. From leading expeditions to some of the most remote places on the planet to running education programs in Boston’s inner city neighborhoods, the NEAq has a vast array of projects that are all dedicated to educating the public about the most challenging problems facing the oceans today. For nearly three years, Teak Media has been responsible for generating national media attention for the NEAq, from Popular Science to National Geographic, The New York Times, “Living on Earth” and CNN, as well as other national, local and regional print, TV, and radio coverage.

Pan-Massachusetts Challenge has employed Teak Media every year since 2002 to promote its annual bike-a-thon for charity. Over the years, we have built the event’s brand identity as the most successful and efficient athletic fundraising event in the nation and have gained national attention for the PMC, which had previously been considered a regional event. National placements include: BusinessWeek, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, “Today Show,” “Early Show,” “Only a Game,” The Weather Channel, ESPN, USA Today, Boston Globe, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fitness Magazine, Men’s Journal, Worth and the Associated Press. The increased publicity the PMC has received has helped the organization grow by more than 1,500 cyclists and more than 1,100 volunteers, and its annual contribution to the Jimmy Fund has increased from $14 million in 2001 to $35 million in 2011. In its first 22 years, the PMC raised $70 million. Since bringing on Teak Media, it’s raised an additional $268 million.

The PJ Library brought Teak Media on in December 2009 to help launch the program in major cities across the United States. The PJ Library, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, gifts books about Jewish culture and traditions to more than 100,000 children each month in major cities in North America and Israel. In two years, Teak Media has generated media attention in the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, and regional secular and Jewish print publications around the nation.

Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, a child welfare agency, has retained Teak Media’s services beginning in January 2004 as it embarked upon its 35^th year of providing therapeutic, outreach, and juvenile justice programs to children across the Commonwealth. The agency has charged Teak Media with increasing its public exposure and gaining recognition for the agency’s work helping youth overcome challenges and build successful lives. Over the past seven years, Teak Media has generated hundreds of media placements, which have, in turn, attracted new financial and in-kind corporate sponsors, volunteers and increased credibility for the agency.

Samaritans Inc. entrusted Teak Media to promote its fundraiser, Make Noise to Save a Life, for three years running. The event is a dance for teens that encourages them to speak out about suicide prevention. Teak Media utilized social media sites to create a buzz prior to the event as well as secured preview and post-event stories in the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. In addition, the event was also featured in Bill Brett’s Party Lines, the Boston Metro, Springfield Republican, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Improper Bostonian, WBUR, Fox News and on WCVB.

Urban Improv hired Teak Media for the first time in 2005 to promote a national study that proves its violence prevention programs decrease violent tendencies in youth and helps them focus academically. In addition to promoting the study, Teak Media blanketed theBoston media, obtaining coverage for Urban Improv workshops on every television station in theBoston market, and in local, regional, and national newspapers and magazines. Annually, Teak Media also generates more media coverage for the organization’s fundraising event, Banned inBoston, than it ever received before.

The YMCA of Greater Boston is the state’s leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities.  Every day the Y works with thousands of men, women and children to make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive. Thousands of stories lie within the walls of the Y’s 13 branches in and around Boston and Teak Media is honored to share them with the public through the media.