Community Desk Chicago

About Community Desk Chicago

Rudd Resources is a full-service, award-winning public relations firm based in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. Since 2014, they have specialized in public affairs, community engagement, and storytelling for philanthropic, nonprofit, government, and corporate clients. Their mission is to advance people, communities, and ideas through communication, focusing on community development, diversity, equity, inclusion, transportation, healthcare, and education.

Products & Services

Content, Media Relations & Social Media:Handles writing, editing, and production needs, including storytelling projects, social media management, annual reports, brochures, and digital projects like websites and videos.

Strategy & Planning:Partners in developing communication campaigns targeting various groups, curating ideas, and creating strategies and tactics for internal or team execution.

Project Management:Enhances productivity by integrating with client teams to execute communication projects across channels, whether short-term or ongoing.

Specialties

Public Affairs Community Engagement Storytelling Content Creation Media Relations Social Media Management Communication Strategy Project Management

Funding History

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#	Type	Amount Fields	Date Fields	Investors
1	RT: Grant T: - FT: Grant	A: 2000000 MR: - FA: more than $2 million FAN: 2000000	D: 2025-11-19 FD: 2025-11-19	2 investors

Grant Latest

2025-11-19

$2.0M

2 investors (Pro only)

Growth Metrics

+45%

Employee Growth

YoY

3.2x

Funding Growth

Last Round

12

Markets

Operating

10K+

Customers

Active

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Team & Leadership

K

Kimberley Rudd

President & Senior Counselor

D

David C. Rudd

Executive Vice President & Senior Counselor

J

Jessica Smith Bee

Vice President and senior counselor

J

Jelani McEwen

Director and Senior Counselor

N

Nicole Akoukou Thompson

Director of Content

A

Agustina Manrique

Account Supervisor

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