SteegeThomson Communications began in 1985, when Michele Steege and Carol Thomson combined their talents as marketing strategists with an expertise in development communications to create a communications firm focused solely on the needs of nonprofit institutions and organizations. Michele and Carol built the firm on the key principles that guide its work today: respect for the client, the belief that every solution starts with sound strategy tied to organizational goals, a passion for language, and the insistence that the first job of design is to communicate.