Built to help leaders turn ideas into impact
Rice Public Impact Group, LLC is a strategy, public affairs, communications and organizational-impact consulting firm located in Baltimore. We bring together expertise in government, public policy, political strategy, advocacy, community engagement, executive communications, marketing, organizational storytelling, partnerships and stakeholder engagement.
Mission and vision
To help leaders and organizations turn ideas into impact through effective strategy, communications, advocacy, coalition building, partnerships and community engagement.
To build a trusted consulting firm that helps leaders and mission-driven organizations strengthen their institutions, engage their communities, influence public policy, communicate their stories and achieve measurable results.
Integration is the method, not a slogan
Clients come to us with goals, not with a request for a particular discipline. A school network wants a policy changed. A foundation wants its work understood. A community leader is deciding whether to run. Each of those goals touches government, communications, community relationships and partnerships at the same time, and treating them as separate projects is how good efforts stall.
So we build one strategy that connects them: strategy to communications, communications to community, community to advocacy, advocacy to policy, and policy to impact. It is also why the firm has two principals whose careers cover the two halves of that chain, the political and governmental side and the communications and partnerships side.
- Strategy
- Policy
- Communications
- Community
- Partnerships
The principals
Ronald C. Rice
Founder & PrincipalRon C. Rice has over 25 years of experience in public policy, political campaign management, PK-12 education, urban development and community empowerment initiatives, as an executive state government appointee, a two-term local elected official on the Newark Municipal Council, a candidate for Congress, a registered federal lobbyist and a veteran of more than 40 local, county, state and federal political campaigns.
That experience gives RPIG clients a practical understanding of how government, politics, public policy, advocacy and community relationships intersect. His work focuses particularly on political and campaign strategy, public affairs, government relations, advocacy, coalition development, community engagement and strategic counsel.
Libi Sprow Rice
Principal — Communications, Marketing & Strategic PartnershipsLibi Sprow Rice is a seasoned executive and strategic advisor with more than 20 years of experience helping organizations strengthen their brands, build influential relationships, engage key stakeholders and turn strategic priorities into measurable results. She most recently served as Vice President and Chief Communications & Marketing Officer of The Executive Leadership Council, after leadership roles at Discovery Communications and CEB.
At RPIG her work focuses on strategic communications, marketing, executive communications, thought leadership, partnerships, sponsorship development, crisis and change communications, events and fractional communications leadership.
Government is not an abstraction to us
Ron grew up around public service. His father, Ronald L. Rice, represented Newark in the New Jersey State Senate for more than three decades, and Ron went on to win his own seat on the Newark Municipal Council, representing the city’s West Ward from 2006 to 2014. He has sat on the dais, run for office, built coalitions across a city, and then worked the other side of the table as an advocate asking legislators for their votes.
That is the vantage point RPIG offers clients: we know what a council member hears in a hearing, what a legislative aide needs before a meeting, what a community wants to be asked before it is asked to show up, and what a candidate feels the week before a debate.
One strategy, one team, no gaps between the disciplines
Access is not the goal
Our objective is not simply to help clients reach decision-makers, but to develop the strategy, relationships, messages and coalitions needed to advance their objectives once they are in the room.
Communications with a purpose
We build practical communications strategies aligned with an organization’s broader objectives, not communications activity for its own sake.
Partnerships that create value both ways
Rather than treating sponsorship as fundraising, we help organizations build partnerships that create value for the organization and its partners.
Located in Baltimore, working wherever the decisions are made
Our office and mailing address are at 306 West Redwood Street in downtown Baltimore. Our current focus is Washington, DC and New Jersey, and we work with clients nationwide: we meet by appointment at the office, in Washington, in Newark, by video, and wherever the work is. Engagements can be structured as defined projects, monthly advisory, fractional leadership, campaign consulting, training or confidential executive advisory.
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