Raising awareness. Increasing influence. Building success.

Welcome to Melcher+Tucker Consultants, a Chicago-based marketing and communications consulting firm advising nonprofit organizations and small and midsize businesses. We assist clients seeking to establish a clear and distinctive message, expand awareness, build brands and deepen employee and customer loyalty.

Clients in the News...

Project Exploration is featured in a February 17 Chicago Sun-Times article by Sandra Guy. Learn more about its recent expedition to Niger. More >

Paul Sereno was interviewed on Chicago Public Radio about his expedition to Niger and the Green Sahara as well as the Chicago-based nonprofit, Project Exploration and its upcoming fundraiser, Dinner with a Dinosaur. More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Lior Strahilevitz, wrote a January 26 OpEd in the Chicago Tribune on U.S. v Jones called Can the police keep up with Jones?" More >

University of Chicago Law School professor, Randal Picker was on WTTW's Chicago Tonight on January 17 to discuss copyright and technology and the SOPA draft bill that is before the House. More >

We are thrilled that two of our clients, the founders of Ladder Up and Project Exploration, have both been chosen as "Chicagoans of the Year" by Chicago magazine. Congratulations to Robert Burke and Gabrielle Lyon. More >

The University of Chicago Law School's Law and Economics 2.0 Initiative is highlighted in a November 28 Financial Times special report on Innovative Law Schools. More >

Saul Levmore, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and former dean of the law school, has written an OpEd in the November 16 Chicago Tribune on the NBA's contract talks and the eurozone's negotiations. More >

Kate Maehr, executive director and CEO of the greater Chicago Food Depository, has a Letter to the Editor in the Chicago Tribune, advocating for legislators to support the most vulnerable in the ongoing budget debate. More >

Gabrielle Lyon, of Project Exploration, was on the WGN Midday News on November 2 to talk about the organization's out-of-school time science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education work with Chicago Public School students. More >

Working in partnership with Communities In Schools of Chicago, Linda Walsh, Nurse Practitioner in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases section at the University of Chicago, had a letter to the editor published in the Chicago Tribune on October 27. It addresses the need for comprehensive sexual health education for children. More >

Communities In Schools of Chicago also had a letter to the editor published in the Chicago Sun-Times on September 30, about the need to address social and emotional learning challenges with Chicago Public School students.

The Unviersity of Chicago Law School has launched Law and Economics 2.0 to expand the influence of the field at home and abroad. More >

The Greater Chicago Food Depository released its first-ever Community Food Insecurity Study, looking at all 77 Chicago community areas and 119 Cook County suburbs. One in five people are food insecure in the city, and one in six in Cook County. The story was covered in the Chicago Sun-Times, in a Chicago Tribune editorial, the New York Times, ABC7, CBS2, NBC5, WGN, WTTW's Chicago Tonight, WBEZ and the Daily Herald. More >

Featured Clients:

+ GMI Strategic Planning, Marketing & Sales

+Greater Chicago Food Depository Marketing and media relations