"How do we raise $500,000 to help rebuild the Lowell Library? Oh, and by the way, we've never done anything this massive before..." Actually TBH, $500,000 is not a large amount when it comes to capital campaigns. But the Lowell Alumni Association hadn't fund-raised at that scale before, so they asked for my expertise [...]
CSAA Insurance Group
kerntoy@comcast.net2021-02-07T10:32:43-08:00Building excitement and energy for your brand always begins from the inside. Your people are your brand ambassadors. When they're excited to be at your company, they communicate that to everyone they come in contact with. So you have to keep your employees engaged and enthusiastic. CSAA Insurance Group does that by supporting their [...]
Alterpop
kerntoy@comcast.net2021-01-29T15:51:34-08:00"Kern, you're like an automatic profit center. When you work on a project, we always make money." That's one of my funniest memories of working with Alterpop. One day, the bookkeeper said that to me in passing and I still remember it to this day. Alterpop is an award winning design agency run by [...]

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
kerntoy@comcast.net2021-01-30T10:07:42-08:00Designing for the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco was a highlight for me. Most people don't know this, but the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has one of the largest collections of Asian art in the world. They only show about 7-10% of the entire collection though. That's primarily due to limited [...]