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You don’t often hear about public relations firms being founded in Washington, D.C., but its heritage in the nation’s capital is a huge part of what makes Porter Novelli (PN), and particularly its founding office, PNDC, so unique.

The city of Washington, D.C. is known for its passionate people, be that passion challenged towards politics, public health, international development or really anything else. This energy attracted PN’s two founders – Jack Porter and Bill Novelli – to the city, and presented them with the opportunity to realize their dream to start a company that took consumer marketing principles and applied them to issues of social good.

And we continue this passionate legacy today in the DC office, both through our work and through our culture.

So you may ask, what is PNDC most passionate about? The answer is probably miniature candy. Resident Candy Vice President, Lisa Carr, keeps a diverse and never-ending selection – from individually-wrapped Swedish Fish to mini Kit Kats and, less fortunately, Baby Ruths. The mix stays fresh and continually stocked thanks to Lisa and Trey Hollern, her former Candy Intern who was recently promoted to Candy Coordinator. Congratulations, Trey!

Do they get paid for this work? They don’t – they do it because they love it.

All jokes aside, the candy jar is really a great example of how big PNDC’s hearts are. There’s no office budget for Lisa to expense her candy to. She just provides it because she knows how much everyone loves it (and at this point, relies on it – candy withdrawal is real!). Also, during the holidays last year, the office adopted a local family for the holidays through A Wider Circle, an organization that helps families transition out of a homeless situation so they can start anew with dignity and hope. The family had five children, but within days, every item had been purchased before everyone got a chance to pick something. We took a few minutes in our weekly Monday morning standing meeting to think of additional gifts we could give the family and give everyone a chance to participate. It wasn’t just about checking the box for our office – everyone jumped at the opportunity to live out our values beyond our client work.

We also send out a weekly email every Friday, Happy Friday, that sums up all the great work our office has done over the course of the week, upcoming events, office goings-on, memes (obviously) and consistently the largest section every week – the kudos. People giving shout-outs to each other for going that extra mile on that project they stayed late to work on, successfully counseling clients through crisis, for helping out in times of need and sometimes for just being awesome. It’s a great way to not only debrief on the week we’ve just had, but also gives us the opportunity to learn about the great work being done by those that we might not work with personally – helping us all to stay connected to each other.

To sum it up, PNDC is a wonderful family full of people passionate about the work they do, their coworkers turned friends and small candy. My family lives over a thousand miles away, but I have over 40 numbers on speed dial to call just in case.

And PS – did someone say Friday? We at PNDC just know it as the day of the week for mimosas and hoverboards.

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Scotland Unveils New Smart Grid Initiative

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland will benefit from an initiative intended to boost smart grid research and development that provides access to power network testing facilities.

The University of Strathclyde’s Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC) and Scottish Enterprise launched the SME voucher access to provide funding to companies and stimulate the research output in…