Sokol’s unique experience will enrich SFG and contribute to growth goals SFG Wealth Management, a comprehensive financial services firm offering retirement, education and estate planning as well as portfolio management and corporate benefits, continues to grow with the addition of Jud Sokol as Wealth Manager. Sokol brings more than two decades of financial advising experience […]
“Junior Achievement of Central Maryland is launching a new program this summer to equip 200 middle and high school students with skills needed to become successful entrepreneurs — even during a pandemic,” the Baltimore Fishbowl reports. “The Maryland State Department of Education recently awarded an $80,000 grant to Junior Achievement to launch the three-week pilot […]
Atkinson has been pitching this story for its client Ambu, a Maryland company that specializes in single-use endoscopy technology, since the pandemic began last year. Our persistence paid off with this article published in The Baltimore Sun. The Sun reports that the coronavirus pandemic may be changing the way medical professionals examine and operate inside […]
When Baltimore resident Avi Mandel was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for eating a Twizzler with his mask down, Atkinson helped his story go viral. Atkinson quickly pitched the story to a producer at WJZ-13, the local CBS affiliate, and it was soon syndicated across the country by major networks, including CBS, ABC, FOX, […]
We began working in Bocek Park during a green space restoration project in 2018 and have been connected to the area and people since. Three years later, it is gratifying to see this recreational center come to life. The top photo was taken in 2018 and the bottom picture is from 2021. The dilapidated building […]
What are the biggest marketing and public relations trends in 2021? A recent article in Forbes weighs in and runs through a list of 16. But there are two I found striking: corporations becoming more involved in social activism and corporations becoming better social listeners. One of our manufacturing clients engaged on both fronts to […]
In The Sixth Sense a young boy named Cole Sear delivers these chilling words: “I see dead people.” That line came to mind during a recent walk through, of all places, a cemetery. No, I don’t see dead people, but what I do see are stories. I view everything I see or hear through the prism of […]
Challenge In July 2020, Pastor Derrick DeWitt, head of First Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Sandtown-Winchester, wanted publicity around his efforts overseeing the Maryland Baptists Aged Home, the oldest African American run nursing home in Maryland. Atkinson had worked with Pastor DeWitt in 2016 on a pro bono basis and helped him gain local and […]
Challenge Six months after taking over management of the Pavilion Apartments in Newark, N.J., KETTLER faced an uprising. A group of residents refused to adopt new terms to their lease and about 100 received eviction notices because they were at least two months behind in their monthly rent. A resident who headed the Pavilion’s neighborhood […]
Challenge In 2019, the Restaurant Association of Maryland fought legislation requiring business across Maryland to pay a $15 minimum wage. The association contacted Atkinson requesting media strategy and media relations support to help it explain why such a drastic increase would not only impact the bottom lines of restaurants but hurt tipped workers. In 2020, […]