Carrie Fox, head of Bethesda-based C.Fox Communications, announced that on January 1, she will launch a new strategic consultancy called Mission Partners with Carolyn Berkowitz, former president of the Capital One Foundation.

According to Fox, Mission Partners will provide many of the strategic communications services that C.Fox Communications has delivered over the last 13 years, “with new and expanded capabilities in partnership and program development, nonprofit leadership and governance, stakeholder engagement, and corporate social responsibility.

“With our roots in the nonprofit, foundation, and corporate sectors, Mission Partners is poised to help nonprofits, foundations and socially responsible corporations innovate and advance big agendas to solve critical social issues,” stated Fox.

According to The Huffington Post, Berkowitz was responsible for Capital One’s award-winning national community investment strategy when she was president of the Capital One Foundation.  She also led initiatives that fostered the link between quality education and community economic development outcomes.

Mission Partners will be based on Bethesda.

You can check out Capitol Communicator’s “up close and personal” profile of Carrie Fox here.

(In photo, left to right:  Berkowitz and Fox)