by Johnny Merolla The Minerva Strategies team has a flexible and dedicated team of partners around the globe. Whether it be a PR agency in Nigeria or a videographer in Portland, we tap into talents in able to tailor a suite of services for our clients. Our team recently finished up a project…
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Minerva Strategies by Joy Portella Last week, a Seattle event brought together a who’s-who of people working to eradicate obstetric fistula around the world. The Minerva Strategies team left inspired and in awe. The cause of combatting fistula is near and dear to our team for a few reasons. First of all, it’s terrible. A…
by Johnny Merolla The leaves are falling, and Seattleites have already begun griping about the cloudy days. The inevitable fall weather means the holiday season is coming. A time when friends and family gather around for animated conversation – and sometimes arguments – about our lives and world. At Minerva, we are a…
Sara Veltkamp by Joy Portella All of Minerva Strategies’ clients do great work to improve people’s lives, but once in a while, one of them has a brilliant idea about how to change an entire system – potentially improving millions of lives. That’s really exciting. Amel Karboul’s recent TED Talk details one such brilliant idea.…
by Joy Portella The Minerva Strategies team gets excited about two things: courageous work to improve people’s lives and top-notch communications that compel people to action. Last week we got our fair share of both. Minerva and our global partners have had the pleasure of working with the Institute for Health Metrics and…
By Joy Portella, President, Minerva Strategies — For me, being heard means being loud. Maybe it’s a Tri-State area learned behavior or the result of growing up in a high-volume Italian-American family or being in one too many musical productions. Whatever the reason, the takeaway is that the higher your volume, the better you’ll be…
By Sara Veltkamp, Account Manager, Minerva Strategies— Death from drug overdose is a major problem in our country and around the world. According to the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 55,403 lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Opioid addiction – to both…
By Joy Portella, President, Minerva Strategies — If you’re like me, the next month is going to be gluttonous. It already started with Thanksgiving. My husband and I rolled home from three straight days of eating on the East Coast and there was only one thought in my mind: I cannot eat another thing. Until…
Joy Portella By Joy Portella, President, Minerva Strategies— Intellectual Ventures CEO and famed patent holder Nathan Myhrvold recently proclaimed to Geekwire that, “Seattle is absolutely the Silicon Valley of saving the world.” That’s a bold claim. Some might call it hyperbole. But in a world where fact-checking is a dying industry and fake news can tip presidential…
Sometimes when we talk about being born in the United States, we talk about it as “winning the lottery” – as the wealthiest, most powerful country with robust economic opportunity, how lucky to be born here. But what if many of those opportunities could never be enjoyed because of early death or disease? What if…