Community Investments
What we do, we do for the good of others.
It's a phrase we've used since our founding to describe the types of clients we work with. It's also a philosophy we live every day — one that shows up in how we distribute our resources, how we spend our time, how we care for our team, and how we directly invest in our communities.
As a Certified B Corporation, we pledge to foster a radically inclusive and richly regenerative economy. We hold ourselves to the highest standards in all aspects of our business — from our governance to how we interact with our team, our clients, our partners, and our community. We believe business can and should be a force for good. This is how we put our belief to work.
At Mission Partners, communication isn't only a job. It's our way of leaving the world better than we found it.
Carrie Fox, Founder + CEO
Our 2030 Commitment
$2.86M invested and counting.
In 2020, Mission Partners publicly committed to direct $50,000 in pro bono resources to historically under-invested-in organizations. That initial investment inspired us to continue investing in communities disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2025, we announced we had exceeded our stretch goal of $2.5M in pro bono and capital investments across our firm.
By late 2025, Mission Partners had distributed $2.86 million across skills-based pro bono support, direct capital investments, and donations to nonprofits. We have since extended this commitment through 2030.
Being small has never stopped us from being mighty. We will continue to invest our resources in the leaders and organizations most impacted by these times — doing all we can, with all we have, to move missions forward.
Our Action Plan
Our Equity Action Plan and Practice Guide put that commitment into practice — laying out how we hire, how we listen, and how we show up for clients and their communities, and giving other organizations a practical guide to do the same.
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Pro bono service isn't an afterthought at Mission Partners. It's built into the fabric of how we operate. Every year, our team collectively contributes hundreds of hours of strategic communications support — planning, messaging, facilitation, brand development, and crisis counsel — to organizations that need it most.
Approximately 30% of our total community investment is delivered this way, through skills-based pro bono to our client base. In 2025, we delivered more than 200 pro bono hours across 16 projects spanning democracy and civic engagement, public health, sustainable communities, education and technology, and the arts. We also expanded the program that year — giving every full-time employee additional company-paid time to contribute to causes that mattered to them personally, representing an additional $50,000 in community value. In 2024, the team collectively delivered 700+ hours of pro bono service nationwide.
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We believe the sector is only as strong as the people entering the field. That's why Mission Partners created the Social Impact Fellows Program — a 90-day, paid summer program that brings early-career communicators into the heart of our work, placing them directly alongside the nonprofits and foundations advancing meaningful change in their communities.
Each fellow works as a contributing member of the Mission Partners team — supporting an anchor client project in their area of focus, gaining exposure to additional projects across our portfolio, and partnering one-on-one with our Founder on a special project that connects directly to their field of study and career goals.
Continuous learning and growth is a company value that we actively practice. And investing in the people who will carry this work forward is one of the most important things we get to do as a firm.
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Among the top U.S. PR firms, only 8% of agency owners identify as Black, while nearly 90% identify as white. Mission Partners' Social Entrepreneur in Residence program was our direct response to that disparity — an 18-month executive-level initiative that shifted capital, coaching, and mentorship to early-stage, Black-led communications firm founders.
Between 2022 and 2026, Mission Partners supported two entrepreneurs as they grew and scaled their companies: Ryan Pintado-Vertner, CEO and founder of Smoketown, a Chicago-based brand consultancy, and Dianne Myles, CEO of Human Focused Media, a Denver-based social impact video production firm. Each resident received executive coaching, business development support, and industry mentorship — and in turn shared their own expertise with the Mission Partners team and our clients.
"It's one thing to believe in myself as a startup founder. It's quite another thing to have others believe in me, too, especially when those allies are backing it up with money, resources, and expertise that I can rely on." — Ryan Pintado-Vertner, CEO and Founder, Smoketown
The program was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the most innovative entrepreneur-in-residence models in the country.
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Mission Partners has long believed that a healthy democracy is the foundation for every other mission we serve. That belief lives in our client work — we've supported organizations on the front lines of civic engagement, voter education, and democratic infrastructure for years. And it lives in how we show up as a firm, through our own Civic Engagement Impact Initiative.
As part of this initiative, we hold ourselves to the same nonpartisan corporate civic engagement playbook we help our clients build, guided by our participation in the Civic Alliance. In practice, that means:
Employee education on voting processes, deadlines, and ways to get involved, plus regular updates on civic engagement news
An internal hub for virtual volunteer opportunities for our team
Our own guides and resources — including a mutual aid resource guide, a voting information and resources guide, and a civic engagement calendar
We invest in the organizations doing this work. We amplify their messages. And we hold ourselves to the same standard of engagement we bring to our clients.
The most meaningful impact is built through long-term investment, principled action, and genuine partnership.
Every year, we publish a Social Impact Report that documents how we've put our values to work — across our client relationships, our team, our community, and our sector.