Community Relations

No organization exists in isolation, and engaging communities is essential when you’re ready to expand your organization’s story and impact. Getting an accurate read on the community’s needs and concerns is the first step.

From this insight, we can work with you to develop collaborative programs and initiatives — sponsorships, partnerships, and volunteer opportunities— that strengthen relationships and drive engagement with all of your stakeholders. Through this work, your organization grows to be seen as an active participant and a force for good in the communities you serve.

What a Community Relations Program Can Do for You:

Demonstrate your commitment and impact as a responsible corporate citizen and community partner.

Prepare for potential crises by building trust and credibility across the community.

Increase loyalty with from customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

Boost employee morale and job satisfaction.

Maximize your community investment budget.

What We Can Deliver to Help You
Relate with Your Community

A community investment plan supports your corporate social responsibility goals with realistic budgets that maximize impact. Through this plan, we steer you toward community investment opportunities in alignment with your organization’s passions, interests and objectives to drive meaningful change.

Direct community involvement can be overwhelming – there are so many opportunities to think about and choose from. These plans take the guesswork out of event selection. We work with your team to choose event sponsorship opportunities that realize the greatest impact in your community, aligning to your goals with your budget in mind.

Working with nonprofits and other community organizations poses a unique set of challenges. These partner assessments help you to sort through the myriad organizations in your community, demonstrating which relationships would have the greatest opportunity for you to make an impact and drive ROI on sponsorships and other partner activities.

Earned media plans help you and your community partners spread the word about your partnership activities like events, programs, and sponsorships. We analyze relevant media and identify opportunities for storytelling that demonstrate your commitment to your community.

Social media is a great way to inform your employees, customers, and the public about your commitment to your community. These plans and programming help you to think through and apply organic and paid branded social media campaigns with creative assets to share your community impact story with the right audiences.

With your budget in mind, we can create paid media plans and design the supporting creative assets that drive actions toward events and other community impact activities you participate in.

Community investment is a challenging concept to effectively communicate. We have the skills and expertise to help you create dashboards and reports that collect and deliver data on the activities and impacts of your community investments to internal and external audiences.

After identifying which investment opportunities are in alignment with your organization’s impact goals, we can work with you to develop effective event activations that position your brand as a committed part of your community.

The Services We Offer to Help You
Connect with Your Community

Strategic Services

  • Research
  • Stakeholder Analysis
  • Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Ideation

Implementation Services

  • Partner negotiation
  • On-site event management
  • Media relations support
  • Social media support

Community Relations Case Studies

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Media Relations

Gaining the hard-won credibility and third-party endorsement of earned media is a challenge. Our team, with a deep bench of seasoned professionals that includes former journalists, knows how to develop key messages and match them with the right outlets and writers.

Social Media

With the majority of internet users on social media, you need a strategy that builds and guards your brand and engages audiences where they are. We work with your organization to align your goals with today’s multiplying, evolving platforms, providing a strategy that accelerates growth and engagement.

Corporate Communications

Your organization needs a workforce and stakeholders that are informed and invested in your success. If your internal team suffers from lack of clarity and alignment, your external audiences feel the impact.