The most effective leaders identify problems no one else believes can be solved and bring aggressive new solutions to the fight. Seeing those problems, designing their solutions and ensuring successful execution is all we do, every day.
CSC works with the leading philanthropic, nonprofit and private sector actors to shape the next generation of public and private advocacy work. We help donors and advocates focus their resources on the most critical issues and build campaigns with the greatest chance of success.
CSC works with foundations, family offices and private donors to identify new frontiers of social change: Issues that haven’t been addressed but will play a central role in solving persistent challenges. Our ongoing counsel helps leaders and staff break new ground, drive change and show other philanthropists the way forward.
The biggest problems need the smartest solutions. We help our clients design and follow new paths to success and improve work already underway: Identifying the right objectives, targeting the critical decision makers, building an effective and efficient campaign vision and finding the right partners to execute the work.
Ryan Cunningham is the Founder & Principal of Cunningham Strategic Communications. He’s spent more than two decades working at the forefront of the world’s most difficult public challenges, from climate change and education to health and national security. An expert on policy advocacy and public communication, Ryan’s counsel is trusted by global philanthropists, activists, corporate leaders and media.
Before CSC, Ryan led development, climate and large-scale strategic campaign teams at the Glover Park Group, Waxman Strategies and Fenton Communications, and served as Staff Director of the Kerry-Edwards Presidential Transition Planning Team. Ryan serves as the Executive Director and Chair of the Pike Foundation, and is a former high school teacher and ex-Republican.
Ryan earned a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
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