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How We Make a Difference Contigo Communications helps you build bridges at the local level. Through listening, partnership building, and community and stakeholder engagement, we help you navigate the waters of public relations and achieve tangible results that enhance your reputation. “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.” We’re proud to have partnered with these local, national and international companies More About Our Clients Your new home awaits. Start the process →

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Craig Communications is a full-service public affairs agency and certified small business founded in 2001 that helps clients build meaningful relationships in the community and with stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, and gain support for their projects. It specializes in strategic outreach, community engagement, public participation, regulatory negotiations and media relations, and is 100% woman-owned.

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Crane Associates is a network of environmental economists, urban planners, and sustainability specialists. They help communities around the globe strengthen local economies while protecting critical natural resources, using environmental economics, market analysis, community engagement, and over 20 years of field experience in water-based recreation and river management.

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Creating Our Own Legacy, LLC is a community-focused organization providing youth sports training and enrichment programs for children and families across Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. It operates COOL Sports Academy and COOL Learning & Enrichment, aiming to support growth, confidence, teamwork, and leadership in safe, inclusive environments.

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Crescendo Consulting Group is a consulting firm based in Portland, Maine, that provides an integrated set of consulting and management services to help organizations improve performance and achieve sustainable positive outcomes. For nearly 20 years it has conducted community needs assessments for hospitals and health systems, community action agencies, municipalities, Head Start programs, and social service organizations across the United States.

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CSIC Solutions LLC is a government contractor based in Haslet, Texas, that partners with government agencies and other small businesses. It provides strategic consulting, technology integration, contract management, teaming agreements, training and capacity building, and community engagement to help agencies improve public services.

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Currie Consulting Group (CCG) is a public engagement firm founded in 2019 with offices in Denver and Crested Butte, Colorado. Its consortium of eight engagement professionals brings over 70 years of combined experience to community projects across Colorado. CCG leads outreach through door-to-door conversations and community picnics, turning individual concerns into community-wide solutions.

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CV Urban is a consulting firm working between Puerto Rico and Washington DC, dedicated to advancing sustainable urban development through urban planning and construction project management. It focuses on urban economic development and innovation, public space design and placemaking, project management, and research and consulting, serving municipalities, developers, cultural institutions, and other organizations invested in the built environment.

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Upsize Economics & Marketing is an award-winning, customer-focused economic development consultancy and marketing firm dedicated to helping communities and organizations grow. Established in 2006, it is a certified women-owned business serving municipalities, nonprofits, chambers of commerce, and economic development organizations across the United States. The firm specializes in inclusive economic development, strategic planning, marketing, place branding, communications, community engagement, business development strategies, and talent attraction.

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Daley Architecture is a woman-owned small business founded in 2022 by Lauren Daley, a licensed architect with nearly 20 years of experience in the architecture and construction industry. It offers a full range of architectural and consulting services with a value-driven personalized approach, working as a solo practitioner with clients, consultants, and contractors.

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Deidre Sully Public Health Consulting, LLC (DSPHC) is a public health consulting practice with two decades of experience specializing in policy advocacy, community engagement, and health education. It offers consulting, training, and program management to help organizations and communities achieve public health goals, and shares insights through blogs, podcasts, and multimedia content.

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Denoir Co. provides supportive housing and independent living services for adults transitioning from homelessness, including veterans and seniors. They offer transitional housing, personal care housing, rehabilitation group home services, and individualized care plans in Georgia (Conyers, Gwinnett County, Columbus) and Alabama (Birmingham, Montgomery).

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Design by Melo is a provider of architectural and urban design services based in Minneapolis, MN. Its Principal Architect, Damaris Melo-Gyasi, is NCARB certified, allowing the firm to produce and sign permit drawings in all 55 US States. The firm takes a comprehensive approach to the built environment, emphasizing inclusion, cultural competency, sustainability, and community engagement.

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The Design Guild is a consortium of creative professionals who collaborate to provide branding, communication design and community engagement. Founded in 2012 by Christine Walker, it builds dedicated teams combining the resources of an agency with the flexibility of freelancers, following a human-centered, local-made, place-informed philosophy of design.

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Designing Local is a certified woman-owned business founded in 2014 that helps communities create beautiful, functional places. It works in public art, arts and culture, historic preservation, urban planning and design, landscape architecture, and community engagement, weaving design, art, culture, history, and narrative into plans and designs.

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DGD Communications advises leadership teams on media strategy, crisis communications, and executive messaging. Led by Daisy Gonzalez-Diego, who spent two decades in broadcast newsrooms and served as Chief Communications and Community Engagement Officer for Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the firm advises leaders across education, government, and the public sector.

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DMM and Associates, LLC is an award-winning, women-owned consulting firm specializing in cultivating success by collaborating with clients to build transformative, sustainable systems proven to maximize profit and performance. The firm offers consulting services to public and private firms structured under Performance Management and Community Engagement frameworks, and is a double-bottom line consulting firm committed to positive social and organizational impact. Its track record spans utility, municipalities, government, legal, law enforcement, non-prof

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Dovetail Trail Consulting works with public lands agencies, state parks, land trusts, recreation organizations, and concession companies to make outdoor spaces more accessible and more usable. Founded by Quinn Brett, former NPS Wilderness and Accessibility Coordinator, and based in Estes Park, Colorado, the firm provides practical solutions for adaptive outdoor recreation access from policy to the trail.

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The Dr. Annise Mabry Foundation® is a nonprofit Community Economic Development (CED) organization and IRS 501c3 that develops, tests, evaluates, and disseminates Educational Restoration™ solutions to help vulnerable and underserved learners overcome educational fragmentation, complete their education, and transition into postsecondary education, workforce, and life pathways. It operates Tiers Free Academy, an alternative diploma program, and community programs such as the Macon County Chiefs' Diploma Program, Cops in Community, Thrive with Pride, and Eas

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Dream DJ LLC is an economically disadvantaged, minority owned, small business providing multidisciplinary services to federal agencies and corporations nationwide. Based in Virginia and serving the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area, it offers a self-service platform to find and book verified professional DJs and live performers for corporate events, weddings, parties, and festivals, along with logistical support, community engagement, marketing, and event-based human resourcing.

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duGard Communications (dGC) is an award-winning strategic communications firm founded in 2013 by Perri duGard Owens, based in Nashville and working nationwide. It blends public relations strategy with marketing to serve corporations, nonprofits, government entities, and mission-driven organizations.

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Earth Matters Planning & Design is an independent landscape architecture practice in Wilmington, NC, focused on resilience, climate mitigation and adaptation, and ecosystem services. Founded in 2024 by Stephanie Kelly, PLA, the practice works across scales from regional frameworks to site-level design, letting science and natural systems guide the work.

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Ciriculum Vitae Bianca is a conservation ecologist with 10+ years of hands on experience. She has a unique expertise in coastal plants with an emphasis on coastal dune ecology, management, restoration, and conservation. Her research combines interdisciplinary methods to test novel ideas with applied societal value and has been both published in numerous high-impact academic journals and applied to management actions. Outreach and societal application are woven into the fabric of her pursuits and as a result she has worked with many local and national organizations, including various US Federal agencies, serving communities across academia and industry.PhD University of Pennsylvania Biology Department MS Villanova University Biology Department BA Princeton University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department with a Minor in Environmental Studies Her work has been covered by outlets.

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EIP Storage is an independent energy storage project developer with a growing portfolio across U.S. markets. It originates and advances grid-scale battery energy storage projects for sale or partnership at NTP; develops, finances, owns, and operates dedicated BESS assets for data centers and other large power users; and delivers smaller storage projects for electric cooperatives under EIPS ownership or cooperative-owned structures.

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