Our Clients
In Our Clients’ Words
“Jess O’Connell has been a trusted leader for democratic values for over two decades. I’ve relied on her counsel and work with Onward Together, emerging leaders, and our partner organizations across the country. Jess understands the fight we're in and knows what it takes to win. She is a strategist who rolls up her sleeves to get the work done and inspires others to do the same.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Former Secretary of State
“Jess and team NEWCO are stars, the best in the business. As I was building Moms First (formerly Marshall Plan for Moms), NEWCO provided the expert insights and strategic roadmap that enabled us to meet the moment. With NEWCO’s enthusiastic support, our team was empowered and smartly resourced to build a grassroots community of moms energized to make change in their communities.”
Reshma Saujani
Founder & CEO, Moms First
“NEWCO Strategies combines a deep understanding of politics and advocacy with a clear-minded focus on producing impactful results. Along with being one of the most effective consulting firms you can partner with, they also bring a sense of humanity and humor to their work that is an important – and difficult - balance to maintain in social change movements. During the most challenging days of the pandemic, NEWCO partnered with us to launch the National COVID-19 Remembrance, the first national COVID memorial on the Mall and then led us through a strategy planning session to help us scale our work in more than a dozen states around the country.”
Chris Kocher
Founder & Executive Director, COVID Survivors for Change
“NEWCO was a highly effective and supportive agency partner to Oxfam America in developing digital strategies and campaigns. NEWCO also developed Oxfam America’s first-ever social media strategy and conducted social media influencer trainings for several experts in the organization. Their staff was kind, adaptable, sharp and strategic, particularly with urgent, high-priority, complex projects that required matrixed teams’ collaboration and internal buy-in.”
Rosa Del Angel
Former Digital Director, Oxfam America
“We worked with NEWCO when we launched Our Bodies Ourselves Today, and we fell in love with their brilliant, scrappy, and highly strategic team. NEWCO listened carefully to us, and got to know us very well, very quickly. They understood just what we needed, sometimes even better than we did ourselves, shared their expertise, and saved us from more than one serious mistake. All in all, Jess and the team made the publicity for our launch even better than we had hoped, including getting us an exclusive in Teen Vogue. We’re now huge fans and would work with them again in a heartbeat.”
Amy Agigian
Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves Today
“Our partnership with NEWCO has helped us reach new heights as an organization. Because of their expertise, perspective and empathy, NEWCO has become a trusted member of our Climate Power team. You won't always hear what you may want to, but you'll know you're on the right path with Jess and NEWCO by your side. From facilitating deep conversations around values and norms to helping us define our work to making strategic recommendations about how we grow, NEWCO is helping us become the organization we strive to be.”
Lori Lodes
Executive Director, Climate Power
“The NEWCO team are the folks who are not afraid to get in the trenches with you. They immerse themselves in the work, turn out anything you throw their way, and do so in the spirit and with the care the work calls for.”
Chris Valdez
Director of Communications, Houston in Action
“The NEWCO team have been invaluable partners to Swing Left and Vote Forward. They helped us build a program of over 200,000 volunteers to execute one of the largest volunteer-driven voter contact programs in the country, as well as provided invaluable strategic advice and leadership support during and after the 2020 election. Their thoughtful counsel, clear understanding of the political landscape, and highly detailed execution were invaluable assets to our programs and outcomes..”