Our News

If you’re lucky in your career, you have the opportunity to work with smart, talented, creative professionals. And when you do, you look for ways to continue working with them throughout your career. That’s exactly what we’re doing. Today we are proud to announce the two newest RENEW PR Network Partners, Visceral and Gokotta Group . Both firms are helmed by former FleishmanHillard (FH) professionals who worked with RENEW PR President Ben Finzel on a variety of clients (in

With today’s Executive Order rolling back many Obama-era regulations on climate, clean power and environmental protection, the Trump administration is opening a new front in their so-called “war” on President Obama’s climate change policies. We shouldn’t be surprised: candidate Trump said during the campaign this is what he’d do and he’s doing it. But it’s still jarring given how dramatic the changes will be once the Executive Order is fully implemented: with today’s action,

If you’re following us on Twitter , Facebook and/or LinkedIn , you already know that we celebrated our Second Anniversary last week with a reception at Nopa Kitchen + Bar here in DC. The Gallery Room at Nopa was filled with colleagues, clients and friends, including people we’ve known for years and others we’ve met recently. We had a terrific time and were honored, flattered and so appreciative of all of the people who joined us. Two weeks is enough time to celebrate a sec

Today marks the second anniversary of RENEW PR . It’s been a fantastic two years and I’m excited for the next two and many more beyond. On our six-month anniversary, I wrote a blog post about six things I learned in my first six months in business . I just re-read that post and I’m happy to say that they all hold true today. Rather than repeating them, I thought I’d take the occasion of our second anniversary to add two lessons learned since that post in the summer of 2015.

Note: This blog post first appeared as a guest column in the January edition of Public Relations Tactics , published by the Public Relations Society of America. In the months since the earthquake that was Election Day 2016, conversations about the proper role of public relations in this new era of “populism” have continued. Does the country’s new mood mean that typical outreach efforts are no longer valid? Does growing skepticism about the media mean news coverage is no lon

It’s a new year in more ways than one. Later this month, we’ll celebrate our second anniversary with a reception here in DC. We’re looking forward to raising a glass with clients, colleagues and friends to celebrate our first two years in business. As we prepare for this year’s celebration, we thought it would be fun to share never-before-seen pictures from last year’s first anniversary reception at Bibiana in downtown DC. As you can see from the photos below, we had a great

It’s been quite a year. We’re grateful for all of the opportunities we’ve had to work with smart, talented, committed professionals on a fascinating variety of vital issues. We've had a lot of fun and accomplished some great things in partnership with strong people and teams. We're grateful for what we're building with this firm. We continue to work with terrific clients doing work that makes a difference and helps to move our nation forward. And we continue to enjoy the opp

Last month , we relaunched our website with new photos, revised sections and client information. We’ve continued to update the site since then and are happy to highlight one of those changes here: the addition of two new Network Partners. As we’ve continued to refine our value proposition and the ways we build our business, we’ve paid particular attention to our Network Partners program . This effort, which is designed to supplement our in-house capabilities with additional

Today we're launching our "new" website, or rather, the second iteration of our website. The new site has clearer titles - Team , Focus , Approach - and a new Clients page listing some of the wonderful organizations we've had the pleasure of working with in the past 19 months. We're also updating many of our case studies, and will soon be adding new ones reflecting work we've done recently. And we've moved our Collaborations to the same page as our Network Partners (the ne

As of today, we've been in business 19 months (we officially launched on January 23, 2015). In that time, we've worked with 19 clients. We're proud to say that several of those clients have worked with us before and many that hired us last year either continued our relationship into this year or hired us again this year for additional projects. To say that we've been lucky would be an understatement. We've been so fortunate to work with smart, committed, capable, focused org

With a name like RENEW PR , you'd think that it was Earth Day every day for us. And it pretty much is. But we're always happy to see worldwide attention focused on the important priorities related to protecting the planet we all call home. Today's signing of the Paris Agreement in New York is a terrific way to mark the day and will be a launching pad for new and continuing conversations about the policies required to balance environmental protection with economic and social

With our first year in business now behind us (our anniversary was January 23rd so we are one year, one month and one day old today), we thought it would be interesting to take a look at our first year by the numbers. And what a terrific first year it was! Take a look: Business 1 : Number of years in business 4 : Number of collaborations initiated in our first year (with Flying Colors Broadcasts , Mida Associates , 38 North Solutions and Sensis ) 9 : Number of N

Note: This post originally appeared on Adweek's PRNewser website on January 8, 2016. We are reprinting it here today in advance of tomorrow's Iowa Caucuses. The updated national dietary guidelines are out today. The basic message continues to be “eat more fresh, whole foods and less processed foods.” Junk food is still bad for you. That makes sense. And given the rise of new dining options and the increasing availability and affordability of fresh food, it’s doable too. B

A year ago at this time, I was filling out forms, writing checks and trying to navigate all of the many pre-launch requirements of a new business (did I really build my own website?). Today, I’m celebrating a very successful first year (more on that later) and looking forward to the second one with anticipation and excitement. When I launched RENEW PR last January, I wrote about my resolution to renew and resolved to: refocus my professional endeavors around the issues

In 2010, I had the distinct honor of working with a team of clients and colleagues (including Renee Rosenfeld of RENEW PR Network Partner Reverberate Media and Kristofer Eisenla of RENEW PR Network Partner LUNA+EISENLA media ) on the launch of the American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC). The AEIC was a group of seven leading CEOs who were committed to promoting the idea that energy innovation required U.S. leadership, specifically U.S. federal dollars devoted to energy

Over the past eight months, we’ve continued to refine our value proposition and the ways we build our business. Our Network Partners program has proven to be particularly helpful to these efforts with many of our partners providing assistance to us and to our clients on a variety of client and business development projects. As we said in February when we first described this concept , our Network Partners provide us with “a network of like-minded communications professiona

We’re excited to announce today that we’re expanding our collaborations program to include the cross-cultural advertising experts of Sensis . Our collaborations program comprises partnerships between RENEW PR and leading public engagement firms providing complementary services to match our communications and public relations expertise with that of the other firms specializing in related areas such as video production, live broadcasts, fundraising, event planning, business

This post originally appeared on PR Newser on July 23, 2015. Today marks RENEW PR ’s six-month anniversary in business. Even after 25 years in Washington (more than 17 of them in PR), I’ve learned a lot in the past six months of being a small business owner. While I know I have quite a bit more to learn about managing and building my own communications firm, here are six things I’ve learned in my first six months in business: 1) Small is beautiful . I acknowledge tha

We’re excited to announce today that we’re expanding our collaborations program to include the brilliant public policy professionals at 38 North Solutions . Our collaborations program comprises partnerships between RENEW PR and leading public engagement firms providing complementary services to match our communications and public relations expertise with that of the other firms specializing in related areas such as video production, live broadcasts, fundraising, event pl

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion on partnerships as part of an internal training course being conducted at the U.S. Department of State. The conversation was focused on providing practical advice about developing partnerships. As I learned in the conversation, 23 federal agencies are now actively engaged in partnerships of all kinds with the private sector and with other agencies. The audience for this week’s course was State Depa

Building on the new collaboration with Flying Colors Broadcasts that we announced in May, we are proud to announce that we’re now working with our friend Jason Mida and his team at Mida Associates as well . Our Collaborations program encompasses a select number of partnerships between RENEW PR and leading counselors in related public engagement firms to pair our communications and public relations expertise with that of other firms specializing in areas such as video prod