Steve Kline President and Co-owner Steve is a recognized expert in creating smart communication solutions to help national, regional, and local non-profit organizations achieve their goals and realize their dreams. Steve has directed major capital campaigns and has provided non-profit and community development communication strategies that leverage both traditional and digital media. Some of his specific accomplishments include:

• Leading feasibility studies for fundraising clients, including a study for a statewide community foundation that helped pave the way for a $1 million grant.

• Preparing successful grant applications.

• Managing a successful ballot initiative campaign.

• Providing calm and effective communication counsel to clients facing news media crisis situations, defusing issues that threatened to harm their reputations.

• Directing a year-long needs assessment research project for a non-profit organization that serves a population of more than 250,000 people.

• Developing communication strategies that helped a major university achieve national visibility and set enrollment and fund raising records.

• Creating a national magazine that won top awards for communication excellence from a national professional association.

• Providing media relations counsel to a candidate in a heated race for the U.S. House of Representatives.

• Planning and implementing numerous special events including the inauguration of the president of a national university.

• Training senior executives and company spokespeople to achieve optimum results from news media interviews.

As a news reporter, Steve covered two Democratic National Conventions and numerous other national stories for The Associated Press, the world’s leading wire service. In addition, he served as sports editor for a major metropolitan daily newspaper, and led public relations teams to national success at a large university.

Steve received top honors from the Nebraska Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for the Creighton University 125th Anniversary campus celebration/Master Plan rollout, and Awards of Excellence twice for magazine creation and publication. He was named Journalist of the Year by Sigma Delta Chi-Nebraska, and has received the United Way of the Midlands Spirit of Volunteerism Award. Steve is a recipient of the Distinguished Staff Service award from Creighton University.

Clients seek out Steve's wise counsel and value his dogged insistence on getting the right results.