Momentum Communications Group is an award-winning PR agency that specializes in education and nonprofit. With more than two decades of collective experience in education and nonprofit PR, the Momentum team provides communications solutions that elevate client reputations and influence stakeholder decisions.
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Here’s how Momentum propels nonprofit, foundation and education clients to prominence and keeps them on a forward trajectory:
1. Analyze where our clients have been, where they are, and where they want to go.
2. Scrutinize the media, stakeholder and competitive landscape to prepare smart, insightful strategies.
3. Execute with creativity and command of all the resources of a 21st century PR agency.
4. Continually adjust and innovate to help our clients gain and sustain momentum.
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Workforce Opportunity Services chairman and founder Dr. Art Langer speaks to Quartz about how remote work has changed one year into the pandemic.
In March 2020, we talked to experts about how work would likely change when Covid-19 disrupted it. Now, a year later, we check back to see how those predictions played out.
“As a woman, what I learned very early on was that it was critical for me to authentically own my leadership.”
Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC CEO Alicia Guevara was featured as one of News 12 The Bronx's most prominent NYC women making an impact on their communities.
Judayah Murray and Jessica Cunnington bring you some of the best stories from the tri-state area with a focus on incredible women who are paving the way into the future.
The pandemic has highlighted the critical role social media teams play in brand exposure. But #CommsPros can easily be exhausted by constant content creation.
PR News gives tips on how social media professionals can avoid burnout.
Instead of looking to others to give them help, social media managers should start by helping themselves with self-care tactics.
Common Ground Committee's Bruce Bond and Erik Olsen discuss what you can do to #FindCommonGround in Deseret News.
The Common Ground Committee founders, Erik Olsen and Bruce Bond, discuss ways families can find more common ground and heal political polarization in America
“We were robbed last year, but we could be robbed of a lot more than a holiday right now if we start seeing a spike of this new strain.”
Dr. Alexander Salerno from Salerno Medical Associates discusses how spring breakers and COVID variants could exacerbate the pandemic on CBS New York.
While the focus has turned to the Big Apple's vaccination efforts, COVID-19 remains a real threat.
“I would say that I learned more from my bosses’ mistakes than I learned from their successes.”
First Workings founder and chairman Kevin Davis reflects on his finance career in MarketScale’s #KnowledgeIsPower podcast.
Learning moments in a career can be successes and failures. It’s what a leader does after that really matters. Knowledge Is Power goes one-on-one with leade
Salerno Medical Associates's Dr. Alexander Salerno warns of a possible #SpringBreak COVID surge.
Learn more on CBS New York.
While the focus has turned to the Big Apple's vaccination efforts, COVID-19 remains a real threat.
Spring has sprung! Our monthly newsletter is back and filled with fresh recommendations to listen to on your evening stroll, read while getting some Vitamin D and learn while admiring the blooming flowers!
https://mailchi.mp/7f91209e7dca/these-recs-are-getting-us-through-8253143
Your donations give AAPI organizations the power to advocate for their communities.
The Strategist provides AAPI organizations you can donate to #StopAAPIHate!
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-to-help-asian-communities-2021.html
From funds to help struggling businesses to community-enrichment organizations.
The pandemic has amplified the issues working mothers face in balancing their careers and childcare.
David Merage and Sue Renner talked to The Christian Science Monitor about how federal assistance could offer relief to these overworked mothers.
For a year millions of working parents, especially moms, have been stretched to the limits by a stay-home swirl of kids and work.
We stand with AAPI communities in condemning the rise in anti-Asian racism and violence since the pandemic.
Stop AAPI Hate has a multitude of actions you can take now to help support AAPI communities. #StopAAPIHate https://stopaapihate.org/actnow/
ACT NOW Encourage those who experience or witness acts of hate towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities to report an incident at our website. The reporting form is available in 11 languages. Reporting incidents helps us understand what is happening and guides us in developing poli...
“We underestimate the importance of music at the expense of our youth.”
Music provides an outlet that many young students are missing in their virtual education. Education Through Music's Andrew Grossman outlines why music is an essential component of the classroom in USA TODAY.
We underestimate the importance of music at the expense of our youth.
Can technology replace teachers? Edmentum Chief Technology Officer Paul Johansen says no and explains how #EdTech will continue to develop and support educators during this pandemic.
This week JW Marshall dives into how educators using an AI digital assistant helps educators streamline tasks.
In her op-ed in New York Daily News, Emily Kurtz of RiseBoroNYC puts out a call to action for affordable housing in the face of corporate greed.
Imagine you are one of the millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet in the midst of this pandemic. Perhaps you are just able to support your family on unemployment, but only because you are lucky enough to live in affordable housing. Now, imagine learning that even this reliable housing sa...
We know you watched Oprah's interview of Harry and Megan. PR News outlines the key lessons #CommsPros can learn from it.
The interview tackled ugly accusations, but did so in a measured way. Meghan, Harry and Oprah came out stronger for it.
Burger King UK’s Twitter account sent out a controversial #InternationalWomensDay tweet to highlight gender inequality in the professional restaurant industry. USA TODAY highlighted how this backfired into a social media reputation crisis.
What do you think: bold or insensitive?
Burger King UK attempted to highlight gender disparity in restaurants with a thread starting with the phrase "women belong in the kitchen."
Read Workforce Professionals Training Institute's Sharon Sewell-Fairman’s thoughts in @NYDailyNews about how we can better support restaurant workers during the pandemic.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-restaurant-workers-20210207-gsdu7kef6vg6fpmoorcmn6lftq-story.html
In December, restaurant workers took to the streets of Manhattan to advocate for aid they desperately need. Full-service restaurants, independent foodservice contractors, caterers and bars are now at just 55% of pre-pandemic employment. More than 60% of restaurants in New York are predicted to close...
This #InternationalWomensDay, we want to celebrate the first Black woman to own a PR firm: Inez Kaiser!
She fought gender and racial discrimination on her way to founding Inez Kaiser and Associates, Inc., just one achievement among an extensive list of accolades.
It was at this point that she decided to go into PR – a field she had never heard of – at the suggestion of an editor at an African-American newspaper.
United Nations News featured RiseBoroNYC in its podcast as an innovator of energy efficiency for affordable housing in New York City.
Learn how the Casa Pasiva housing renovations serve as a model for future global developments.
https://news.un.org/en/audio/2021/02/1084472
The role that buildings have to play in climate change rarely gets the same level of attention as issues such as energy production or transport, but they are a significant part of the problem. The UN estimates that, in 2019, emissions from buildings hit an all-time high, accounting for more than a t...
Have you tried Movers and Shakers’ Kinfolk app? Hyperallergic highlighted how the program uses #ARTechnology to revolutionize how Black history is told.
https://hyperallergic.com/621437/monuments-project-app-ar/
Movers and Shakers' new app allows you to insert monumental figures of under-recognized icons like Shirley Chisholm and Toussaint Louverture into public spaces.
Opinion pieces are one of the best ways for a nonprofit leader to build their thought leadership credentials. But the process can be tricky.
Thank you to Nonprofit New York for highlighting our 10-step guide for writing and placing an op-ed.
https://thecommunity.nonprofitnewyork.org/s/article/10-Step-Guide-to-Writing-and-Placing-Op-Eds-for-Your-Nonprofit
The pandemic is a reminder of the stark inequities in our society. Nichelle Smith writes in USA TODAY that boldness is the only way forward.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/02/01/black-history-month-2021-essay-only-way-forward-through/6567631002/
Black Americans stand at the crossroads of racism and the systems of oppression that perpetuate it. We go forward from here with faith, bold strategy.
Alicia Guevara, one of Crain's New York Business’s 2021 most notable Black leaders, was featured on CBS New York for her contributions as Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC’s first female CEO.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/02/16/alicia-guevara-big-brothers-big-sisters-of-new-york-city/
Alicia Guevara is the first female CEO in the 117-year history of Big Brothers Big Sisters Of New York City. It would be an honor for anyone. But to Guevara, it's also a "humbling" distinction.
Is Black Lives Matter one of the biggest movements in history? The The New York Times details the evolution of this important movement.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html
Recent polls suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the U.S. have participated in recent protests.
Black women are an important part of #MeToo’s legacy. The New Yorker explains how they helped transform the way we talk about s*xual assault.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/one-year-of-metoo-the-legacy-of-black-womens-testimonies
Despite the tradition of activism by black women, white women have often played the protagonists in the history of s*xual violence, and black women have been relegated to the supporting cast.
In the last decade there has been a new wave of organizations addressing issues facing Black communities.
We wanted to highlight Reclaim The Block, an organization founded in 2018 to reallocate police funding to promote community health and safety. Donate today! https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/donate
Today we’re celebrating Tarana Burke, who bravely founded #MeToo, one of the largest social media movements in history.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/me-too-founder-tarana-burke-women-s*xual-assault
After Weinstein, Burke’s slogan was adopted overnight by people sharing their experiences of r**e and s*xual assault. The women’s activist is using her high profile to help the young women she has spent decades fighting for – those who have suffered abuse, and don’t have a voice
Last week the The Museum of Public Relations and the Diversity Action Alliance hosted a “Celebrating Black History” event where Black #CommsPros reflected on their journeys.
Read how far PR companies have come and where they can improve in the future:
https://www.prdaily.com/pr-pros-honor-black-contributions-to-the-industry-for-black-history-month/
In an event hosted by the Diversity Action Alliance and the Museum for PR, leaders from across the U.S. share their experience as Black PR pros and their hopes for the future. While February is the month we annually honor the contributions of African Americans, it has never been enough to only ackno...
CEO Alicia Guevara from Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC was featured in Forbes for her thoughts on the importance of reverse mentorship in the workplace.
Read below to find out how reverse mentorship can be innovative and productive:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markcperna/2021/01/26/5-ways-to-be-a-better-mentor-and-get-a-return-on-your-investment/?sh=4cc6108c624d
It’s National Mentoring Month. How’s your mentorship game?
Intersectionality has become a powerful term in empowering communities, but its origins delve deeper into incorporating gender and racial identities in law.
Read more in Vox about how Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term over 30 years ago:
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination
When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.
Black women have long been at the forefront of activist movements.
Learn how Black women have pioneered Black liberation, racial pride, and political self-determination: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/pioneering-black-women-who-paved-way-moment/612838/
Today’s protests build on a long tradition of activism.
This #BlackHistoryMonth, donate to some of the organizations that are advocating for and empowering Black women:
✔️ Black Women's Blueprint: Prioritizes and addresses women's struggles in broader racial justice issues: https://give.blackwomensblueprint.org/campaign/end-of-year-campaign-2020/c319267
✔️ National Black Women's Justice Institute: Works to eradicate racial and gender disparities in the U.S. criminal legal system: https://www.nbwji.org/donate
✔️ Black Girls CODE : Empowers young girls of color to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures: https://donorbox.org/support-black-girls-code
✔️ Higher Heights for America: The only PAC committed to electing more progressive Black women to higher levels of government: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/higher-heights-for-america-2019
✔️ SisterLove, Inc: Aims to educate women about HIV prevention, self-help and safer s*x techniques: https://www.sisterlove.org/support-us
COVID-19 amplified the daily challenges that survivors of s*xual assault and gender-based violence face. Your support allows our team to continue safely mobilizing for our community of women, girls, gender non-confirming, and LGBTQIA+ people. Thank you for journeying with us. Thank you for being ...
Shirley Chisholm paved the way for Black women’s involvement in federal government, yet her impact is rarely taught.
This #BlackHistoryMonth learn more about Chisholm’s legacy:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).
Diversity and inclusion are NOT synonymous. Here is what organizations need to know about why inclusivity is just as important as diversity:
https://www.digitalhrtech.com/diversity-vs-inclusion/
In this article, we’ll look at diversity vs inclusion, the difference between the two, how it leads to organizational success and 7 D&I activities at work.
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“Every teacher right now feels like a first-year teacher. ” Lynette Guastaferro, CEO of long-time client Teaching Matters, discusses the impact of #remotelearning with The Situation Room’s Wolf Blitzer of CNN. Watch the full interview here:
#TeachingMatters held its 11th annual Champions of Education Luncheon on October 23, raising $450,000 to support its Early Reading Matters program! Listen to what honoree, Raymond McGuire, had to say about the importance of teachers.
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#MeetMomentumMonday We took a visit to #SullivanCounty and met up with local business owners to learn more about the area and the people in it.
#MeetMomentumMonday Our President, Jim Miller sat down with conductor Maestro Yamada of the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York about the uniqueness of #PONY2018 concerts which used 3D holographic imaging in their performances! #client
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