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Finsbury Glover Hering has picked up Pivotal Ventures, the investment and incubation company launched by Melinda Gates to advance social progress in the US.
The WPP unit will focus on issues related to caregiving, paid family and medical leave.
Kirkland, WA-based Pivotal last month announced ten finalists in its “Equity Can’t Wait Challenge,” a competition designed to expand the power and influence of women in the US by 2030.
The Challenge, which received more than 550 proposals, this summer will award $10M each to the three top projects and distribute $10M among the other seven finalists.
Pivotal, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and MacKenzie Scott, novelist and former wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, fund the Challenge.
FGH has Carolyn Gluck, who was senior policy advisor to Sen. Harry Reid; Kerry O’Brien, legislative director for Congressman Bill Keating; Lindsay Plack, legislative correspondent for Rep. Joe Knollenberg; and Mina Moore, senior policy advisor to Rep. Adam Smith, representing Pivotal.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, will exit at the end of the month. Ben LaBolt, a longtime Biden adviser, will take the CD post.
Cathy Cochran, senior VP in Teneo’s Washington office, has rejoined the US Dept of Agriculture as director in its communications office.
Mexico is working with the DC-based Global Action on Gun Violence to push for “impactful gun violence prevention strategies” in the US.
Douglas Farrar, who was VP-communications and strategy at the Carnegie Center for International Peace, has joined the Federal Trade Commission as PA director.
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