Doing career-best work on behalf of clients isn’t just ful­fill­ing – it also con­tin­u­al­ly push­es our team to deep­en their skills, take on new respon­si­bil­i­ties and hone their lead­er­ship qual­i­ties. We’re excit­ed to share four team mem­bers have been pro­mot­ed recent­ly:   Kalli Plump is now Asso­ciate Direc­tor + Pub­lic Affairs Lead. Kalli is an all-around...Read More

Fundrais­er events come in many sizes. From blowout, star-stud­ded galas to small scale pan­cake break­fasts, no mat­ter the size, the core of these events is the need to suc­cess­ful­ly engage guests and bring in donor dollars. At Bell­mont Part­ners, we have sup­port­ed sev­er­al of our non­prof­it clients through fundrais­ers big and small. Here are best prac­tices...Read More

We are proud to share that Bell­mont Part­ners took home a win at the Min­neso­ta PRSA Clas­sics Awards last night in the Inte­grat­ed Pro­grams cat­e­go­ry for our work with long­time client Sec­ond Har­vest Heart­land for “Pitch In for the Kitchen,” a cam­paign for Min­neso­ta Cen­tral Kitchen. Min­neso­ta Cen­tral Kitchen was quick­ly formed in the ear­ly...Read More

Your nonprofit’s big anniver­sary is on the hori­zon – how can you max­i­mize the mile­stone so it shines the spot­light on your orga­ni­za­tion while build­ing aware­ness and boost­ing your abil­i­ty to fundraise? Account Super­vi­sor Bri­ana Grue­newald and clients Megan Muske, chief devel­op­ment offi­cer, Sec­ond Har­vest Heart­land; and Dana Nel­son, prin­ci­pal and founder, DCN Strate­gies, shared their...Read More

Non­prof­it com­mu­ni­ca­tions is about words. Devel­op­ment is about num­bers. The teams from each are from dif­fer­ent worlds and speak dif­fer­ent lan­guages, right? Maybe; but they’re strongest and most effec­tive when every­thing is aligned. Bell­mont Part­ners strate­gic part­ner Mo Cahill and I had the hon­or of pre­sent­ing a break­out ses­sion at the Min­neso­ta Coun­cil of Non­prof­its’ (MCN)...Read More

I’m fond of quot­ing not­ed 20th-cen­tu­ry philoso­pher Fer­ris Bueller: “Life moves pret­ty fast. If you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it.” Last week, our team gave our agency’s part­ners – Jen Bell­mont, Shel­li Lis­sick and me – a refresh­er course in just how impor­tant, and how effec­tive, it...Read More

Any­one who’s met Bell­mont Part­ners COO Jen Bell­mont knows how com­mit­ted she is to her clients, col­leagues and com­mu­ni­ty – and now our indus­try has made it offi­cial. Ragan’s and PR Dai­ly have announced that Jen is one of this year’s Top Women in Communications. Accord­ing to Ragan’s and PR Dai­ly, the awards hon­or “those...Read More

‘Tis the sea­son for giv­ing, and at Bell­mont Part­ners, we’re all about it. Today is Minnesota’s giv­ing hol­i­day – Give to the Max Day – and our non­prof­it prac­tice group has been busy help­ing clients pre­pare for the big day. From strate­giz­ing with 2017’s top-of-the-leader­board Sec­ond Har­vest Heart­land for the “Pack to the Max” event,...Read More