Case Studies

Job Corps Earth Day Every Day Campaign

10/18/2011
In the summer of 2009, funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) enabled the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program to build and upgrade facilities and incorporate ...

The Friends of Gaile Owens Campaign

6/1/2011
Gaile Owens, a domestic abuse survivor on death row, nearly became the first woman executed in Tennessee in almost 200 years. But thanks to a legal effort closely coordinated with ...

Metro Nashville Airport Authority

2/16/2010
Nashville has grown significantly as a city over the last decade, from the dozens of relocated corporate headquarters to the renaissance of downtown Nashville. And as Nashville has evolved, the ...

Earth Hour Nashville 2009

1/25/2010
How do you convince hundreds of Music City businesses, owners of major buildings and residents to turn off all nonessential lights for one hour on a busy March Saturday night?

Nashville Health Care Council

4/14/2009
A national spotlight was shining on Nashville in October of 2008 as Belmont University hosted the second of three presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama. To take advantage ...

Nashville for All of Us Special Election Campaign

4/14/2009
For two years, a group in Nashville worked to make English the only permissible language for use by Metro government. Tapping into public anger over immigration issues, Metropolitan Nashville Council ...

Job Corps

8/22/2008
In 1995, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program faced a problem in the Southeast: how to recruit more age- and income-appropriate students to the program’s education and job ...

Meth Destroys

7/29/2008
In September 2005, the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference retained MP&F to conduct a statewide anti-methamphetamine campaign. There were multiple objectives: to educate and inform the public, particularly school-age youth, ...

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Jennifer Poston, Dan and Katie Schlacter Celebrate Anniversaries

5/26/2010

Jennifer Poston, Dan Schlacter and Katie Schlacter were honored by MP&F this week for their five-year anniversaries with the company.

“In the past five years, Jennifer, Dan and Katie have shown their ability to provide great work for our clients on a daily basis,” said Senior Partner Mark McNeely. “It has been a pleasure to watch them grow as professionals and as leaders.”

Jennifer Poston, who joined McNeely Pigott & Fox in May 2005, has specialized in marketing material development, news and feature writing, event and conference planning, strategic marketing, and media relations. A native of Middle Tennessee, Poston graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in human and organizational development and in 2004 earned her M.Ed. degree in organizational leadership.

Dan Schlacter joined McNeely Pigott & Fox in April 2005. Since arriving at MP&F, he has worked on various projects, including alternative-fuel messaging for General Motors, Medicare policy awareness for PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) and a statewide methamphetamine education campaign for the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference. Schlacter has done national and regional work for the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Job Corps program, and he currently serves on the Dallas Region account.

Katie Schlacter, a Nashville native and Vanderbilt graduate, also joined McNeely Pigott & Fox in 2005. Her industry experience includes media relations, event planning, writing and marketing for clients in the health care, banking, retail, government and nonprofit sectors. Her client list includes FirstBank, Genesco, Magdalene, West Tennessee Healthcare and Wal-Mart.