Clients
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Wendy Arnone, CEO
UnitedHealthcare Wisconsin
“It’s an exciting effort to be a part of. It really helps us advance our mission of helping people live healthier lives, right here in Green Bay, Wisconsin.”
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Garry Schwall, Chief Operating Officer
Winthrop-University Hospital
“When EcoMedia approached us about the ability to use some of our advertising dollars to support a project like this, we were very excited that we were able to put resources back into the community.”
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Richard James, Product Communications Manager
GM Chevrolet, West Coast
“By working with EcoMedia, Chevrolet was able to redirect our advertising dollars. The ability to not only reach people with our advertising but also touch people and communities with projects like this is really profound, so we’re really proud to be here.”
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Tom Murphy, GM
Holman Cadillac
“CBS provides us with a great opportunity to reach the market that we are looking for. EcoMedia, I believe allows us to let the audience know that we’re not just trying to sell a car, we’re also trying to give back to our community.”
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Stephanie Smith, Public Affairs Director
AT&T, Florida
“To be here today and to see the children hands-on with the equipment that was provided through these advertising dollars and this partnership has been unbelievable.”
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Cameron Robinson, GM NYC Franchise
1-800-Got-Junk?
“When EcoMedia came to us with the opportunity to work with the New York Botanical Gardens on a local level, we were really excited to be able to do that because it follows up and further pushes us towards our mission statement which is, to get involved with local communities and make the earth a greener place.”
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Wendy Arnone, CEO
UnitedHealthcare Wisconsin
“It’s an exciting effort to be a part of. It really helps us advance our mission of helping people live healthier lives, right here in Green Bay, Wisconsin.”
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Mike Uffner, President
Tri-State Cadillac Dealers
“If we could take a small portion of our advertising dollars and use that to help our communities and help these kids that are in these hospitals, we just think that is an obvious thing we should do as good stewards of our community.”
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Dan Johnson, President
Denver Chevrolet Dealer Association
“With our advertising dollars, we didn’t just buy a 30-second spot. We bought a 30-second or a 60-second spot and helped a ballpark get off the ground in a tough part of town, so it feels good. The Chevy group is behind it a thousand percent.”
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Karen Gay, Director of Global Citizenship
Cirque du Soleil
“The EcoAd program was a perfect way to incorporate our social corporate responsibilities with our advertising. Why would any company choose advertise in any other way?”
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Christine Cassidy, VP Corporate Communications
Fallon Community Health Plan
“The chance to reach a greater part of the community and establish a legacy through EcoAd was very compelling to us. It allows us to have an increased efficiency with our advertising budget and put our money where our mouth is when it comes to our corporate philosophy of supporting the local community.”
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Alex Petrov, Vice President, Consumer Brands
Safeway
“We are really part of a larger community of sustainable companies, so the notion of actually being able to go through the EcoAd program, is a good opportunity for Safeway and O Organics. We have highly valued this partnership.”
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Marilee Grant, Director of Community Relations
Boston Scientific
“Boston Scientific is committed to making more possible in the communities where we live and work. We make this commitment real by supporting global, national and local health and education initiatives, striving to improve patient advocacy, and minimizing our impact on the environment. Participating in the EcoAd program provides us with a unique opportunity to give back in a very tangible and meaningful way.”
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Mark O’Connell, President
Avidia Bank
“We are very excited to participate in the EcoAd program with CBS. The EcoAd program is an ideal way for Avidia Bank to further our ongoing commitment to support our local community in a highly targeted way by providing solar energy to Floral Street Elementary School in Shrewsbury, MA. Avidia Bank is also committed to boosting America’s long-term economic situation by reducing our reliance on foreign oil. For us, this is a classic example of thinking globally and acting locally.”
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Ray Byers, Jr., Sales and Operations Manager
Byers Leafguard
“It’s the billboard that never goes away. The EcoAd program brings the core awareness of what we can do for each other. EcoMedia has played a big portion in our company success in this tumultuous economy.”
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Jan Soderstrom, Fmr. Chief Marketing Officer
SunPower Corp.
“SunPower is participating in the program because it’s a great fit with our vision of ‘changing the way the world is powered.’ As the leader in solar energy, our goal is to make a meaningful impact on the environment and certain local communities. Through the EcoAd program, we have the opportunity to promote our value proposition and at the same time give back.”
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Arley Baker, Deputy Executive Director, Communications
Port of Los Angeles
“The EcoAd program helps us further demonstrate our commitment to a sustainable future by contributing in a tangible way toward making Los Angeles a healthier, greener place to live.”
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Mark Harland, Manager – Connected Consumer
General Motors
“The EcoAd is really different and special for us here at Chevrolet because I can use the EcoAd model to actually change my reputation in a community. This is going to live on for thirty years from now. That’s the kind of legacy that I can’t buy with a 30-second ad.”
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Jim Schmitt, Mayor
The City of Green Bay, Wisconsin
“It’s great that there are companies who really share the vision of a healthy community.”
EcoMedia is a Green Bay project funding partner.
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Will Rogers, CEO
The Trust for Public Land
“EcoMedia is a creative new way of looking at advertising, and a way for advertisers to have a major impact on the communities where they live. At The Trust for Public Land, our mission is creating parks and playgrounds in communities across the nation, and we’re proud that EcoMedia and CBS are helping us achieve that goal.”
EcoMedia is a TPL project funding partner.
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Mike King, President and CEO
Volunteers of America
“Volunteers of America’s partnership with EcoMedia supports two of our critical objectives as a human service provider—to foster innovation and bring cutting-edge solutions to tough problems, and to be a responsible global citizen in everything we do by investing in sustainability and environmentally responsible choices. As one of the largest nonprofit providers of affordable and veterans housing, our partnership with EcoMedia has allowed us to make responsible choices in the design and components of our buildings to improve physical, economical and environmental sustainability. We are grateful to EcoMedia for their trailblazing efforts to bring corporations and nonprofits together in such exciting new ways to accomplish important and mutually beneficial goals. We commend them for their vision and thank them for their commitment to making the world a better place through their innovative business model.”
EcoMedia directed Energizer ad dollars to the VOA Hope Manor solar installation project.
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Jacqueline Ibrahim, CEO
Starlight Foundation
“Starlight Children’s Foundation is able to embrace, empower and enrich the lives of chronically ill children and their families through donations from generous partners like CBS EcoMedia and its clients. As CBS EcoMedia pioneers a new advertising model to bring positive change to communities nationwide, Starlight will continue to innovate meaningful psychosocial digital programs that also reach into communities everywhere and ultimately bring comfort, strength and joy to those who need it most.”
EcoMedia is a Starlight project funding partner.
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Phil Ginsburg, General Manager
SF Parks & Recreation Department
“We had inconsistent timers from the 1970’s to turn on and off the lights at these three highly utilized baseball fields. Having the Musco lighting system allows us to turn off the lights remotely, which will save the staff time, 475 hours of electricity and $22,000 a year. EcoMedia has allowed us to incorporate this innovative technology.”
EcoMedia helped fund SFPR lighting system projects.
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Marty Coyne, President and CEO
Ronald McDonald House Charities
“The mission of RHMC to improve the health and well being of children and their families couldn’t align more seamlessly with EcoMedia’s commitment to build healthy communities. Whether through monetary gifts, in-kind donations, or volunteering, corporate donors like EcoMedia and the companies it works with are a vital part of helping us deliver comfort and care to the children and families served by RMHC programs and services.”
EcoMedia is an RMHC project funding partner.
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Paul Scott, Executive Director
One Atmosphere
“The EcoAd support from CBS was pivotal in helping us put solar on top of the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center in San Francisco. We had made a lot of good progress toward our goal, but the EcoAd funding put us over the top. This support will do a lot of good for a lot of deserving people, while also helping the environment.”
EcoMedia has funded One Atmoshphere’s Tel-Hi Solar Installation Project
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Dave Wish, Executive Director
Little Kids Rock
“EcoMedia has created a remarkable platform that is a powerful tool for the social good and a smart business model. The EcoAd model is an inspired idea and ideas are what change the world. We are honored to be partners!”
EcoMedia is an LKR project funding partner.
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Jack E. Kosakowski, President and CEO
Junior Achievement
“Junior Achievement USA values collaborative and innovative partnerships with organizations like CBS EcoMedia, who share our commitment to helping young people succeed in the workforce and in the global economy.”
EcoMedia is a JA project funding partner.
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Corey Brinkema, President, FSC U.S.
Forest Stewardship Council
“The partnership between the Forest Stewardship Council and CBS EcoMedia will help protect forests for future generations while providing companies with an easy way to leverage their advertising investments into meaningful conservation action in the forest.”
EcoMedia is working to help fund FSC projects.
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Ken Fisher, Chairman and CEO
Fisher House Foundation
“Fisher House Foundation is dedicated to the mission of honoring the men and women who serve our great nation so selflessly. We look forward to our partnership with EcoMedia and CBS to reach out to the American public, showing that “thanks for your service” is no longer enough. It is our obligation to back our words up with deeds, and care for our wounded warriors and their families in their time of need.”
EcoMedia is a Fisher House project funding partner.
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Irwin Redlener, MD, President and Co-Founder
Children’s Health Fund
“Children’s Health Fund is extremely impressed by EcoMedia’s innovative advertising concept that provides another avenue for corporations to support non-profits doing valuable work in their community. The critical funding that we anticipate from this new advertising partnership will enable us to expand our efforts to provide essential healthcare for America’s most disadvantaged children in New York and across the country.”
EcoMedia is working to help fund Children’s Health Fund projects.
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Diane Poggetto, Executive Director
American River Parkway Foundation
“It was a very welcome sign to receive EcoAd funding. Through the EcoAd program, we are able to spread our message to that many more people. EcoAd concept is phenomenal because advertisers are able to sell their products and give back to the community and that’s what building a community is. And if EcoAd can generate greater community awareness, that’s better for everyone who enjoys this parkway.”
American River Parkway is an EcoMedia project funding recipient.
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Marc Yaggi, Executive Director
Waterkeeper Alliance
“Paul Polizzotto has been a leader in our movement for many years and we’ve shared the same mission of ensuring clean water for rivers, lakes and coastal waterways. We’ve been excited to watch that mission expand and grow through EcoMedia, and Waterkeeper Alliance is proud to be one of their EcoAd partners. Now with the expansion of EcoMedia’s reach and programs, the good they do for communities will touch people and projects from coast to coast.”
EcoMedia is a WKA project funding partner.
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Jennifer Kent, Director of Marketing and Development
EcoTarium
“It made the difference to have the support of Fallon Community Healthplan and EcoMedia to be able to have a well lit exhibit at a reduced financial cost and be able to help the environment. It is great to have increased visibility for our museum through this type of partnership.”
EcoTarium received EcoAd program dollars to fund the energy efficiency lighting retrofit.
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Nestor Fernandez, Executive Director
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center
“The funding that was made possible by the EcoAd program with EcoMedia-CBS was critical in allowing the rooftop solar installation on our Telegraph Hill Center to be completed. By significantly reducing our energy costs, and demonstrating the power of renewable energy to the residents of San Francisco who benefit from our facility, this project will have a tremendous and lasting impact on this community.”
EcoMedia directed SunPower Corp ad dollars to the Tel-Hi solar installation project.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Founder & President, Waterkeeper Alliance / Senior Counsel, NRDC
“Our alliance with EcoMedia epitomizes the benefits of the public-private partnership business model and I look forward to seeing the EcoAd program grow and expand. Instead of waiting for someone else to create green jobs, cut carbon emissions and deliver environmental benefits to cities and communities across the country, CBS and EcoMedia have taken a bold entrepreneurial leap and made it happen.”
EcoMedia is a Waterkeeper Alliance project funding partner.
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George E. Pataki, Fmr. Governor
State of New York
“As Governor of New York, I always understood that whether it was the preservation of over 1 million acres of open space for use by future generations or the establishment of cutting edge programs like the nation’s first green building tax credit, improving our environment and creating jobs are not mutually exclusive goals. That’s why I applaud EcoMedia for developing an innovative source of funding to do the same thing across America, making our communities healthier, more energy independent and more competitive in the global economy.”
Mr. Pataki’s fim, Chadbourne, Parke has provided consulting services to EcoMedia
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Gavin Newsom, Lt. Governor
State of California
“California is proud to be the most innovative and progressive state when it comes to our Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), our Renewable Portfolio Standards, and our decades of achievements in energy efficiency, so we recognize and appreciate great innovations that effectively increase sustainability. That’s exactly how I see this EcoAd venture backed by the proven team at EcoMedia and the broad sweep of their media assets.”
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Terry Tamminen, Fmr. Secretary of California EPA and Founder & CEO
Seventh Generation
“The EcoAd program is such an exciting concept, because when you see it, you know that money from that commercial is going into a community, working with cities and local communities for real bricks and mortar projects that otherwise wouldn’t get done that make our communities better and our planet better. What could be better?”
Seventh Generation provides consulting services to EcoMedia
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Michael Schmitz, Executive Director
ICLEI
“There’s a financing gap that’s very real, and it will not be met by the federal government or the state governments, increasingly. But what EcoMedia has figured out is the way to get that bridge financing through this creative advertising model. It’s exactly the kind of thing that’s going to help catalyze these kinds of projects.”
EcoMedia is an ICLEI project funding partner.
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Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Director
GreenBiz Group, Inc.
“Americans today are looking for companies to be environmental heroes — to take bold, audacious actions that positively affect individuals, communities, and the planet. They want more than lip service or small, incremental change. They want, and deserve, action. EcoAd advertisements offer a powerful tool for companies to demonstrate their commitment and leadership.”
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Fred Krupp, President
Environmental Defense Fund
“Environmental Defense Fund has always encouraged innovating financing mechanisms to transition our country to cleaner forms of energy. The EcoAd concept holds strong promise in this respect by generating private sector revenue to fund community-based renewable energy projects. While EDF is not endorsing any specific advertising or companies, the EcoAd program can have a positive impact in the transition to clean energy.”
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Manny Diaz, Senior Partner, Lydecker-Diaz, and Fmr. Mayor
City of Miami
“I saw what EcoMedia made possible for my constituents and other municipalities nationwide when I was Mayor of Miami and President of U.S. Conference of Mayors and I wholeheartedly applaud CBS for acquiring EcoMedia and its brand, EcoAd.”
EcoMedia is a Miami project funding partner.
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Bob Foster, Mayor
City of Long Beach
“Companies are not tapping new budgets. It’s money they’re already spending on advertising; they’re just spending it in a different way. Now with the EcoAd program, their dollars actually make tangible environmental improvements to local communities. We are proud that our city was an early partner in this innovative public-private partnership.”
EcoMedia is a Long Beach project funding partner.
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Phil Ting, Assessor and Recorder
City and County of San Francisco
“It’s so critical that there is this environmental impact. People forget there’s a difference when we trade off fossil fuel for clean energy, and the environmental impact in this neighborhood should not be underestimated.”
EcoMedia is a San Franciso project funding partner.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fmr. Governor
State of California
“I want to congratulate EcoMedia for the millions of dollars of clean energy and environmental enhancement projects that you have supported.”
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Denise Sheehan, CEO
The Climate Registry
“The Climate Registry recognizes CBS for its commitment to measure, report, and reduce its carbon footprint by publicly reporting its Greenhouse Gas emissions since 2006. We further support its leadership as the sole media company to have taken this stand. CBS’ EcoAd product further demonstrates this leadership by offering the corporate sector an option for media purchasing that results in lasting carbon-reducing impacts.”
CBS Corporation is a Climate Registry member.
