Mission Partners is formalizing its commitment to pay parity through internal salary transparency and a values-led competencies process built to reduce bias. See the promotions, policy shifts, and Platinum Bell Seal recognition behind this next step in building a people-first workplace.

Findings from over 800 purpose-driven leaders show that the same leaders who highly value communication as a business strategy under-invest in growing their skills. And most leaders grapple with their roles as executive communicators, particularly in challenging times.   

Today, Mission Partners releases our 2022 Social Impact Report—an annual practice as a Certified B Corporation™—in which we reflect on what we accomplished alongside our community last calendar year, where we challenged one another, and where we see our work going next.  

Mission Partners has been named a 2023 Real Leaders Impact Award recipient, its second time on the list. Learn how a 30-point rise in B Corp score reflects a business built to prioritize people, planet, and purpose.

So much of communications work is nonlinear, unpredictable, and outside our control — which is why focus matters most. Learn how to direct your energy toward what you can actually influence.

At its heart, a first draft approach is about practicing getting uncomfortable by sharing ideas to be validated, challenged, added onto, and stress-tested. It helps build a workplace culture rooted in curiosity, equity, and honest participation.

Words are powerful, and the way you craft them can mean the difference between communities feeling disempowered, or becoming the hero of their own story.

Mission Partners has been named a 2022 Inc. Magazine Best Workplace and awarded a Gold Bell Seal by Mental Health America. See the specific policies and practices — from pay transparency to sabbatical programs — that earned both honors.

From shifting $617,000 in capital to historically under-invested-in organizations to expanding health coverage for part-time staff, Mission Partners' 2021 Social Impact Report shows a small business working toward a big vision. Read what a year of intentional action can look like.

Mission Partners' Founder and CEO, Carrie Fox, has been named a 2022 Women Making History honoree by Montgomery County. Meet the community of leaders being recognized for service, leadership, and a shared commitment to lifting others up.

Mission Partners has won a Silver Stevie Award for Best Women-Run Workplaces — a recognition earned during one of the hardest stretches for working women in recent memory. Read why this moment is less about celebration and more about the work still ahead.

To truly "design for impact," we first must pause to consider how many stereotypes our collective marketing campaigns or graphic designs have perpetuated. Learn three practical ways to build a more diverse, bias-aware, and equitable creative process.

Traditional strategic planning carries hidden, white-dominant norms that can limit whose ideas shape the outcome. Here are six ways to put equity at the center of your next planning process, from who's in the room to the words on the page.

Coalitions are hard to manage and even harder to sustain — but the payoff for tackling big, shared problems is worth it. Learn four practices, from trust-building to the MOCHA model, that keep coalitions moving instead of stalling out.

We may not always get it right, but we’ve never compromised our values. And to us, that’s what better business is all about.

An advisory board can be your organization's greatest asset, or an underused resource sitting on the sidelines. These 12 tips will help you build clearer expectations, deeper engagement, and a board that truly advances your mission.

The language we default to can carry bias we don't even realize is there. Learn six practical ways to write with more equity and intention, from rethinking the word "empower" to using person-first language.

Learn how communications and development professionals can use images and graphics to reflect a more diverse and accepting world.

Instead of "hearing what you need to hear," combat like-mindedness with these tips on becoming a better listener.

Some of our most complicated problems are at the root of our most basic experiences. Read on and find new ways to address what's most "unsolvable."