Pizzi Communications Company, Neighbor

Doug Pizzi has more than 30 years of communications experience.  After a dozen years as a daily newspaper reporter, Doug moved into campaign and healthcare media relations work.  He then spent six years in state government communications and legislative relations at the agency and cabinet level. 

For three years, Doug was the director of communications and legislative liaison at the Office for Children within the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, where he used his media, networking and political skills to help transition that agency from a $10 million licensing agency to a $350 million licensing and subsidized childcare purchasing agency. 

Doug then spent three years managing the cabinet level communications operation for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and its five line agencies.  While at EOEA, Doug conducted media campaigns promoting statewide Biodiversity Days, preserving open space, increasing waterfront public access, passing the Community Preservation Act (CPA), reducing mercury in the environment, and supporting product stewardship.

In January of 2003, he formed Pizzi Communications Company (PCC).  The company specializes in media and public relations, event planning and execution, crisis communications and digital photography.  PCC represents clients in energy, freight rail transportation, home building, commercial finance, environmental advocacy, business, politics, human services and the arts.

PCC, working for the Community Preservation Coalition, recently completed a six-year media and public relations campaign to recapitalize and amend the Community Preservation Act, the state’s model smart-growth municipal partnership.  The campaign resulted in a $25 million state appropriation for the CPA statewide matching fund.

Working for Home Builders Association of Massachusetts (HBAM), PCC conducted successful statewide media campaigns around the issue of mandatory fire sprinklers in new single family homes and passage of the Permit Extension Act, which extended permits for approved projects delayed by the poor economy.  PCC won critical editorial endorsements of permit extension from the Boston Globe, Banker & Tradesman, the MetroWest Daily News and the Worcester Business Journal.  The state Legislature renewed the Permit Extension Act during the session that ended in 2012.

From 2004 to 2008, Pizzi Communications conducted a statewide campaign for the former Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corp., a quasi-public small business lender, now called the Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation.  This campaign was instrumental in winning approval of CDFC’s $10 million recapitalization from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2008. 

Also during this period, Pizzi Communications developed and managed media strategy for the project team that designed, permitted and built Excelerate Energy’s Northeast Gateway, the world’s second deepwater liquefied natural gas port now operating 18 miles east of Boston in Massachusetts Bay. 

In 2011, Pizzi Communications coordinated communications in Massachusetts and Maine for the National Wildlife Federation’s successful campaign in support of the federal EPA’s draft rules to reduce mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. 

Through responsive, personal service, Pizzi Communications can help you create and/or manage a positive public image and promote core issues in an effective, affordable and successful manner.