Helping clients secure media placement by drafting opinion pieces in response to the news cycle. These pieces name your organization and position you for your key audiences, often securing dozens or even hundreds of reprints in syndication around the world. 

Helping clients develop and implement written communication strategies with clear target audiences, messaging, and narrative shift goals so that they can leverage opportunities to deepen broad awareness of their work for years to come. 

Matt spent 10 years as a journalist and won multiple awards for his reporting on the U.S. criminal justice system, particularly its treatment of Black and Brown people, juvenile detainees and those in mental health crisis. He has since led communications at nonprofits in London, Oakland, and in New York City, and founded Matt Davis Communications, Inc. in 2020 to work on a strategic basis for a variety of clients whose missions interest him.

In California, when Harvard University started buying up water rights in a valley where groundwater was running out, Matt took a Greyhound bus down there and found the people whose livelihoods would be threatened, making an 11-minute film that attracted the interest of the Wall Street Journal, who subsequently ran an investigative story on the issue, prompting lawmakers to pay more attention to how water rights are regulated in the state.