Impact PR & Communications

About the agency

Impact PR & Communications is a national public relations agency launched in 2014 in New York's Hudson Valley by founder and CEO Filomena Fanelli. With a team footprint in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the firm works across real estate and construction, banking and financial services, food and beverage, hospitality and nonprofits. It offers earned media relations, thought leadership, crisis communications, community engagement, digital/social strategy and reputation management.

Fanelli's published background includes an earlier tenure at Rubenstein Associates, where she handled real estate and finance-related accounts before establishing Impact. The agency's current personnel page also names Kristin Delia as senior vice president and Alli Long as account manager. The firm illustrates its work with organizations such as Angry Orchard, Tompkins Bank & Trust, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill, Astor Services and Eastdale Village; the site explicitly presents these examples as past and present, so none should automatically be described as an active retainer.

Impact reports several distinctions with identifiable awarding bodies and dates. Its About page says the U.S. Small Business Administration's Metro New York District Office named it Women-Owned Small Business of the Year for 2024; it also cites a 2025 CommPRO agency ranking, a Gold Stevie Award for Women-Run Workplace of the Year and PRSA Mercury Awards for client campaigns. These are the agency's published award claims, not a separate verification of every issuing body's records. In combination, its Hudson Valley origins, financial and real-estate specialization, named leadership and documented industry recognition make its profile more substantive than a generic description of a full-service PR firm.