Full Court Press Communications (FCPC) is a public-relations firm based in Oakland, California that has worked for many left-of-center clients, including labor unions, political advocacy groups, and grantmaking nonprofits. Founder and CEO Dan Cohen is a former Democratic campaigner.

Clients

Full Court Press Communications’ political advocacy clients include the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, the Congressional campaign of U.S. Rep. Mike Honda (D-CA), a campaign for the 2016 Santa Clara Measure B tax increase for infrastructure projects, Working Partnerships USA, California Environmental Voters, the League of Women Voters of California, and a campaign for the 2012 Proposition 35 in California that increased penalties for human trafficking. ^{1 2}

FCPC’s environmentalist clients have included American Rivers, the Conservation Lands Foundation, and the Resources Legacy Fund. ³

FCPC’s government clients have included Contra Costa County, Alameda County, Sonoma County, Santa Clara, and the California Department of Social Services. ⁴

FCPC’s grantmaking nonprofit foundation clients have included the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Napa Valley Community Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. ⁵

FCPC’s labor union clients haved include the California Labor Federation, the International Union of Operating Engineers, and the National Football League Players Association. ⁶

Other FCPC clients include the Greenlining Institute, Oxfam, Code for America, and bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX. ^{7 8}

Activism

In 2015, Full Court Press Communications signed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down state-level bans on same-sex marriage. ⁹

In 2016, FCPC signed a petition supporting the Legislative Women’s Caucus’s request to California to spend $800 million on childcare infrastructure development. ¹⁰

Also in 2016, FCPC signed a petition urging then-Governor Jerry Brown (D-CA) to sign AB 2548, which would establish a school investment fund to support low-income students. ¹¹

Leadership

Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen is the founder and CEO of Full Court Press Communications. Despite the company operating out of Oakland, Cohen lives in Israel and works remotely. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency describes Cohen as living “out his Zionist dream.” ¹²

While attending Babson College, Cohen took a semester off to intern for then-U.S. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. After graduating, Cohen worked for numerous Democratic political campaigns across the country for a few years until he worked for a public relations firm. He then followed his boss to work for their client at General Mills. Cohen graduated from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in the late 1990s and then worked for two tech start-ups before founding FCPC in 2002. ^{13 14 15}

In June 2017, Cohen wrote an article for the Huffington Post on “resistance resources” to oppose President Donald Trump (R), including joining Indivisible and labor unions. ¹⁶

In 2021, Cohen wrote an article for The Times of Israel arguing that misinformation was a major concern and had killed 1 million Americans due to vaccine misinformation. ¹⁷ Cohen has also praised the communication skills of former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci. ¹⁸

Cohen has moderated the Jewish Vote Forum in the San Francisco Bay Area. ¹⁹

Ginna Green

Ginna Green is the former director of public relations at FCPC. She works at Bend the Arc Jewish Action and was previously the managing director of the Democracy Collaborative at ReThink Media. ²⁰

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