Walnut Lane Strategies is a boutique strategic communications firm serving clients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
We work with large corporations, developers, advocacy groups, nonprofits, government agencies and labor unions to cut through the noise and craft public affairs strategies to influence public policy in some of the highest-profile issues at the federal, state and local levels.
With more than 15 years’ experience, Walnut Lane Strategies is adept at navigating the local media landscapes across two states and provides you with the tools to proactively tell your story to the public and key policymakers.
SERVICES
Strategic communications
Walnut Lane Strategies will leverage our deep experience of the media landscapes in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania to help you tell your story. Our goal is to shape public opinion and educate key policymakers to help you achieve your goals. Through the use of communications tools ranging from holding press conferences to pitching op-eds to conducting proactive reporter outreach, we help you shape the narrative.
Issue advocacy
Walnut Lane Strategies is adept at helping our clients win change at the federal, state and local levels. We work hand-in-glove with you to develop a public affairs strategy that helps raise the profile of your issues, provides an impetus for action and gives you leverage as you push for legislative and regulatory change.
Coalition development
and management
We will help you identify, recruit and deploy third-party validators who will work with you to achieve your objectives and help develop authentic messages that resonate with key policymakers.
Digital strategy
Walnut Lane Strategies will help you develop and execute strategies to ensure your message penetrates across social and digital media. From helping you develop your campaign website to designing and managing large-scale paid digital campaigns, Walnut Lane Strategies understands that any modern advocacy strategy must fully utilize new ways of communicating in order to reach your intended audiences and provide a surround-sound effect.
Crisis communications
When your organization is in trouble, you need a strong advocate in your corner who will fight to defend your reputation. Walnut Lane Strategies takes a hands-on approach in developing a strategy that is tailored to your situation and that responds to the needs of key stakeholders, from your board members to clients to regulatory bodies
SELECT CLIENTS
TEAM
Anthony Campisi, Principal
Anthony utilizes his more than 15 years of experience in journalism, government and strategic communications to build campaigns to help organizations large and small move the needle on some of the nation’s most significant public policy debates, from climate change to labor rights.
Nonprofits, unions, trade associations and advocacy groups turn to him when they’re seeking to bring public pressure to bear to advance legislation, influence executive action and secure a seat at the table as critical decisions are made at the local, regional and state levels.
Anthony also works closely with political action committees to develop strategy on major election campaigns and independent expenditure efforts at the local, state and federal levels.
At the same time, Anthony works to protect the reputations of high-profile organizations facing crises that could damage their brand and impact political relationships and critical government funding sources.
Prior to founding Walnut Lane Strategies, Anthony worked at a senior level for a leading regional issue advocacy firm, as well as a consultant to nonprofit advocacy groups and political campaigns. He also served in the administration of former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
Anthony cut his chops as a journalist for the Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the New Jersey Statehouse Bureau of the Bergen Record. This experience gives him a deep understanding of the media and political landscape in Harrisburg, Trenton and Philadelphia’s City Hall.
A native of Metuchen, N.J., and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he currently resides with his family in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Anthony serves on the board of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and the Local Advisory Committee for DePaul USA, a faith-based affordable housing provider. Anthony is also an active member of the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the city’s Chestnut Hill section, where he served on the Discernment Committee to call the congregation's current rector.
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OFFICES
Philadelphia
50 South 16th Street
Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19102