Since it first launched in 2016, Bell­mont Part­ners has been part­ner­ing with the Min­neso­ta Fire­fight­er Ini­tia­tive (MnFIRE) to pro­vide Minnesota’s fire­fight­ers the tools they need to pri­or­i­tize and pro­tect their health, and we couldn’t be more grate­ful for this ongo­ing, inspir­ing work that’s lit­er­al­ly sav­ing lives. As for­mer Rich­field fire chief, Wayne Kewitsch has brought 24...Read More

Fea­tured Pho­to Cour­tesy Becky Church Photography As COVID restric­tions are lift­ed and peo­ple begin to gath­er again, we want­ed to reflect on the whirl­wind of the past 16 months – specif­i­cal­ly when it comes to events. What did we learn? How will this affect events mov­ing forward? We posed those ques­tions and more to three of...Read More

Some of the pandemic’s most rel­e­vant and res­o­nant lessons about lead­er­ship didn’t come from a high-pro­file CEO’s LinkedIn post. Instead, the mas­ter-lev­el class on what it takes to be a leader was taught by a folksy, opti­mistic, pos­i­tive – and entire­ly fic­tion­al – soc­cer coach. And his sweet mustache. Ted Las­so, per­fect­ly embod­ied by Jason Sudeikis...Read More

It’s a land­mark and emo­tion­al day for Minnesota’s fire ser­vice and for us at Bell­mont Part­ners: Our state leg­is­la­ture passed the Home­town Heroes Assis­tance Pro­gram, which ensures that every Min­neso­ta fire­fight­er will have access to edu­ca­tion, pre­ven­tion and care need­ed to han­dle a car­diac, emo­tion­al trau­ma or can­cer diag­no­sis. We are grate­ful to be a...Read More

When George Floyd was mur­dered last year, the hor­rif­ic act and result­ing unrest moved all of us to learn more and talk more about racism, and then think and act dif­fer­ent­ly. Like many of you, at Bell­mont Part­ners, we devot­ed more resources and atten­tion to our diver­si­ty, inclu­sion and equi­ty efforts. One thing we can...Read More

Com­ing off the excite­ment of work­ing on anoth­er won­der­ful Word­play Book Fes­ti­val, and with sum­mer vaca­tions on the hori­zon, we want­ed to dig in and devel­op anoth­er list of sug­gest­ed read­ing mate­ri­als from our team. Below, we share some favorites we keep going back to along with some new­er titles. We hope these pro­vide enter­tain­ment,...Read More

We’re excit­ed to share that Bell­mont Part­ners Account Super­vi­sor Michelle Grif­fith has been rec­og­nized as a “32 Under 32” by AdFed MN. The annu­al pro­gram hon­ors the top young mar­ket­ing and adver­tis­ing minds, and this year’s theme was The Dis­rup­tors – those who have rede­fined the norm in light of the chal­lenges of the past year....Read More

Some anniver­saries are worth for­get­ting. Like how it’s now been 15 months since we shut­tered our PR agency’s office and went vir­tu­al, as though we were all sucked into a game of Tron. Hooray..? But for oth­er anniver­saries, you’ve got to par­ty like it’s 1999. Or, more accu­rate­ly, 2011. Ten years ago today, the first book...Read More

Our client, Jill Wei­de­mann-West, CEO of Peo­ple Incor­po­rat­ed Men­tal Health Ser­vices, said it best last year in a Min­nPost arti­cle dur­ing Sui­cide Pre­ven­tion Aware­ness Month, “The fear and iso­la­tion of COVID, the dis­rup­tion to our busi­ness­es, fam­i­lies, chil­dren and edu­ca­tion­al sys­tems, and, of course, the unrest and trau­ma so present in our com­mu­ni­ties has pushed...Read More

As the job mar­ket is spring­ing back to life and com­mu­ni­ca­tions tal­ent becomes hard­er to find, now may be the per­fect time to con­sid­er cre­at­ing or max­i­miz­ing a hybrid com­mu­ni­ca­tions team that blends in-house and out­sourced experts to get the job done. The Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Busi­ness Com­mu­ni­ca­tors (IABC) Min­neso­ta chap­ter recent­ly host­ed a pro­fes­sion­al...Read More