We Take Our Work To Heart.
Mission Partners 2022 Social Impact Report
A Letter From Our Founder
Dear Friends,
Each spring, since becoming a certified B Corporation™, Mission Partners has released an annual social impact report. I’ve often thought about this annual report as a love letter to our community—about what we accomplished together, where we challenged one another, and where we see our work going next.
Thinking about this report as a love letter is fitting, perhaps, because of how deeply we take our work, our impact, our values, and our partnerships to heart.
In 2022, we collectively contributed our time, treasure, and talent across 50+ mission-aligned accounts. We launched a ground-breaking Social Entrepreneur in Residence program. We received a Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America and an Inc. Best Workplace Award. We delivered more than $140,000 in pro bono services to Black-led and women-led organizations. We renewed our B Corp™ score with a 30-point increase. We lived fully through our values. And we showed up every day, as communicators for social change. Because we take this work to heart.
This report is designed to prove it to you. In the pages that follow, you’ll understand how seriously we think about this work, and how seriously we take our role and responsibility as thought partners, strategists, writers, designers, project managers, and content creators.
At Mission Partners, communication isn’t only a job. It’s our way of leaving the world better than we found it: by challenging and helping to reimagine systems, by contributing our skills to a more just and inclusive society, and by advancing meaningful missions in creative and compelling ways.
This is hard work, and heart work. And we’re in it for good.
With gratitude,
Carrie Fox (she/her)
Founder and CEO
Mission Partners, Benefit LLC
Public Benefit Statement
As a Certified B Corporation, we pledge to foster a radically inclusive and richly regenerative economy. Our company voluntarily invests in meeting significantly higher standards of sustainability, governance and giving back to the community in our daily operations. At Mission Partners, we believe business is a force for good and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect for all employees and partners. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
We take our impact to heart.
At Mission Partners, we’re driven by our desire to leave a long-lasting and positive impact. It’s not just about what we do; it’s also about how we do it. We show up every day to consider the impact we can have on one another, our client projects, our communities, and across our broader systems. Here are some of the ways Mission Partners made an impact in 2022, download our full report to see more.
We shifted $362K in capital to Black-led and women-led businesses. This investment is part of our commitment to shift $2.5M to Black-led and women-led organizations by 2025.
750 hours of pro bono support
We collectively contributed 750 hours of pro bono support to our clients representing $146,500.
We prioritized mental health in the workplace. Mission Partners received the Gold Bell Seal from Mental Health America for our workplace policies and approach.
Creating an exceptional workplace and company culture. We were named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces in the U.S. for 2022.
“At Mission Partners, communication isn’t only a job. It’s our way of leaving the world better than we found it.”
Carrie Fox
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About Mission Partners
At Mission Partners, we use the power of communications to advance social justice.
With decades of experience in social impact communications and mission-driven strategic planning, we partner with organizations along their journeys to build more equitable and just systems and communities. Working at the intersection of public relations, policy, and philanthropy, we use a full range of strategic communications—messaging, marketing, issues management, and strategy building to help advance our clients’ visions for the future.
Since our founding, we’ve counseled hundreds of nonprofits, foundations, and purpose-driven organizations, as well as the partners who fund and support their work, helping to ensure they are authentic in their words, equitable in their strategies, and intentional about their impact.
We’ve helped organizations refine their strategies, increase their impact, and amplify their stories. We track and measure progress every step of the way. And, we significantly invest our own dollars and time back into the clients we represent, because we know that everything we do to share and strengthen a powerful idea will move us toward a better world.