Announced today: Anthem Award Finalists
We’re finalists — and we’re still moving. Vote here
Our Fifty2 End Stigma campaign has been named a finalist in the Anthem Awards, Health – Nonprofit Awareness category.
Thinking Out Loud about "Communications Strategy"
Family of the Year Award 2025
Alex and Dean are deeply honored to have been awarded Family Services’ Family of the Year Community Partner Award by CEO Leah Feldman at their July 10, 2025, event.
We Need Your Vote! Afghan Women Speak Campaign Nominated for a Webby Award
We’re excited to share that Afghan Women Speak: Stories From Inside Afghanistan, the campaign we designed for V-Day, has been nominated for the Webby Awards in the Social – Public Service & Activism category — and your vote could help us win the People’s Voice Award!
Report to the Community
A key highlight in yesterday’s Family Services’ Report to the Community was our campaign to reduce the stigma around seeking mental health care in the Hudson Valley.
Japanese American Incarceration: Interview with Norio Uyematsu
Our country has a history of overcoming its most shameful moments. That we have proven we can recognize and address our faults makes us different from brutal dictatorships like the Soviet Union or Putin’s Russia.
Ice Yachts – 1 year later
One year after releasing our viral Ice Yachts video, we got to see these vintage boats up close.
We accessed the frozen river via the ominously named Murderers Creek.
FIFTY2 End Stigma
We confront stigma every day – rules about what’s okay for us to say, do, or feel. And yes, some rules are in place for the purposes of civil society, but others are there to oppress.
June 8, 2024 marks 1000 days since the Taliban banned girls from attending school
Partnering with V-Day means working with stories powerful enough to change the world. So when we read Sania’s vivid story of witness, about the closing of schools and crushing of dreams, we felt an urgency to extract the visual qualities of her story for as many people to experience as possible.
You can talk or you can keep moving
Leah Feldman champions big ideas. The CEO of Family Services loves to seize on a concept and do something remarkable with it, so when she told us she wanted to run 50 miles to raise money, that felt very much in character.
“The Fastest Vehicles on Earth”: Hudson River Ice Yachts
Discover the fastest vehicles in the world skating across the surface of the Hudson River in this episode of the Roosevelt Story, directed and produced by Drake Creative.
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