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Highlights of Our Work

Mixed Blood Theatre

Mixed Blood Theatre, one of the nation’s most respected and inclusive theater companies, sought Parenteau Graves’ assistance in creating a strategic three-year plan that clearly articulated the company’s priorities in a difficult economy. The resulting plan drove ...More

University of Minnesota Law School

Parenteau Graves works continuously with the University of Minnesota Law School to align communications with the organization's strategic vision to be a national and international leader in legal education. Parenteau Graves worked with staff to develop positioning for ...More

Minnesota Fringe Festival

Parenteau Graves worked with the Minnesota Fringe Festival to develop a three-year strategic plan to stabilize and grow the festival. By 2010, having accomplished many of its goals and setting attendance and donation records, the Fringe returned ...More

The Playwrights' Center

The combination of a strategic plan that heralded innovation and a major increase in funding had led to dramatic growth in The Playwrights’ Center’s programs, activities and services since 2008. Experimentation and healthy risk-taking were the guiding lights, but with ...More

Ten Thousand Things

Parenteau Graves provides a range of services for Ten Thousand Things, one of the country’s most unique and respected companies, performing primarily in prisons, homeless shelters, and low-income centers. Parenteau Graves worked with the company on national ...More

Jeremiah Program

Parenteau Graves serves as Jeremiah Program’s communications strategists for the organization’s four locations plus for national expansion planning. In developing its holistic approach to transform families two generations at a time, Jeremiah has become one of the country’s leading experts ...More

News + Notes

Star Tribune Recognizes Impact of Smaller Theaters

Having worked extensively with Ten Thousand Things and Walking Shadow, we understand the impact of these two theaters. Read the articles here.....

Plan Before You Leap

What comes first: strategic planning or your website redesign? Parenteau Graves shares its views in an article for Minnesota Do-Gooders. Read it here

A New Look for a Growing Law Firm

Parenteau Graves is proud to announce a newly launched website for Pauly, DeVries, Smith & Deffner, a dynamic and growing patent and technology law firm located in Minneapolis. View here.....