One of the things I love best about Momentum is that we invite special guests from the nonprofit, media and communications fields to talk to us about their work and concerns of the moment. Over the years, we've welcomed all kinds of wonderful professionals to our ongoing "Momentum Meets:" reporters, producers, editors, elected officials, lobbyists,…

Watch Your Language: Lists, Good and Bad Everyone loves to tell other people what words not to use, even the president. In this business, agency after public relations agency makes it an annual habit to show off their smarts by instructing each other on which words are meaningless, have no juice or are just obfuscatory.…

Tea Party, K-Pop and Pets November 2025 Putting the Tea in Community Longtime Momentum client RiseBoro Community Partnership takes every word of its name to heart. The Brooklyn-based organization is known for its affordable housing, but it also supports the communities it’s in with youth centers and gathering places for older residents. It recently held…

Play Time and Wanderlust October 2025 Out Teach: Big Digs and Big Plans for Science Education                                                            Credit: Ben Swanson/Denver Broncos Volunteers from the Denver Broncos help…

A pair of men’s leather shoes, a 1-quart carton of milk and a small pineapple – these all weigh two pounds, not that I’d thought about it before Oct. 23, 2021. That’s the day my daughter, Poppy, was born, before I even reached the third trimester. She weighed just 2 pounds, 9 ounces — a…

At first glance, blending a nonprofit organization’s message with trendy pop culture references seems like bad practice. After all, nonprofits work to tackle deeply serious issues in our communities, and connecting inequity in education, for example, to this week’s reality TV scandal would both be in poor taste and damaging to an organization’s image. But…

Why Walk? Why Lymphoma? Why Ask Why? September 2025 The Lymphoma Research Foundation: Supporting Patients, Doctors and Science Credit: Lymphoma Research Foundation Participants at a Lymphoma Walk in Chicago. The Lymphoma Research Foundation: Supporting Patients, Doctors and Science We are delighted to be working with our newest client, the Lymphoma Research Foundation, the nation’s largest…

I entered the workforce at a weird time, so I don’t have an extensive memory of what it was like to work onsite every day.  My first full-time job started in 2021, just after the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to subside. The trains were empty, the vaccine was new and face…