Public Affairs News

We are excited to update you on our newest clients. 

Discover: Our work with Golin has us handling community engagement and media relations for the South Side’s newest corporate citizen. Our work is integrating Discover into the neighborhood of Chatham to improve and provide equitable opportunities for residents within a five-mile radius.

Cures Within Reach: We believe in the organization’s commitment to providing equitable operations for a better quality of life through medicine. We are highlighting their successes by introducing media and other influencers to the dedicated research being done. 

Thierer Family Foundation: We’re guiding the development of the messaging, branding and website content for OpenShelf, its community food access project, which is being piloted in two Chicago communities now. 

Chicago Community Land Trust: We’re helping this nonprofit organization, which takes action for affordable housing in Chicago, shape its new mission, vision and value statements, and…drumroll, please…adopt a new name and logo.  

 Rudd Resources LLC has been selected to assist Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) in planning and implementing its diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) communications strategy. 

Through strategic counsel and content development, Rudd Resources will help Cummins communicate its commitment to workplace and business practices that are equitable and inclusive. The agency also will support the roll out of C.A.R.E (Cummins Advocating for Racial Equity), a movement focusing on four major areas of systemic racism: police reform; broader criminal justice reform; social justice; and economic empowerment.

"Cummins' enthusiasm and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has long been engrained in the core of who we are as a company—from our company values and the strategic partnerships we forge with our suppliers to our ongoing civic engagement efforts," said Carole Casto, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Cummins Inc. “It was therefore important for us to identify a firm that not only matched our values and intentionality, but one that could also help translate our momentum into additional action. After conducting a national search, it was clear that with Rudd’s innovation and breadth of experience in this area, together we can make a real impact for our employees and communities.”   

Read the full press release below.

Rudd Resources was part of a team led by The Conservation Fund whose 2019 work has been recognized with a 2020 APA-IL Award in the Healthy & Active Community category. APA-IL is the statewide chapter of the American Planning Association. The team developed a land-acquisition plan for the Forest Preserves of Cook County to support its long-term goals for recreation, restoration and preservation in Chicago's southeast suburbs. This was the first such study that applied a health and equity lens to recommendations. Our agency handled public relations and community engagement, talking with residents, business owners and elected officials to gather insight that informed work by Chloe Gurin-Sands and Josh Ellis at the Metropolitan Planning Council. Next, we worked with the Conservation Fund to write and design the report with support from Catherine Lange Design Services. 

Equity means action -- that's the core belief behind Just Action: Racial Equity Collaborative, a new effort to develop a  community of practice to support Chicago's commitment to racial equity.  Rudd Resources is proud to be among the more than 100 organizations and individuals involved in establishing Just Action and signing on to its opening pledge.