For more than five years, Furia Rubel served as the Union City Board of Education’s agency of record, successfully raising awareness among its bilingual Spanish speaking and English speaking audience, helping to educate area residents about the school district, its accomplishments, and the free community services offered in partnership with city government.
Union City, New Jersey also is one of America’s poorest and most densely populated cities where the vast majority of the population are first-language Spanish speakers. While the Board of Education is known nationally as an urban leader, at the time Furia Rubel was engaged to provide strategic education public relations and marketing counsel, the citizens of Union City knew little about the school district, its accomplishments and the free community programs offered in partnership with city government.
Furia Rubel worked with the Union City Board of Education to handle communications and to make the citizens of Union City aware of the board’s accomplishments and offerings. The target audiences included five distinct groups: students, parents, staff, community and prospective employees.
Furia Rubel developed and executed a bilingual Spanish/English awareness campaign targeted at the 95 percent Hispanic population of Union City. Over the course of more than five years, the agency provided Union City Board of Education with a myriad of marketing and public relations deliverables. They included strategic communications support for:
Local feedback and usage of the various marketing tools including the keys and website was indicative of the overwhelming success of the campaign. Four additional keys were mailed to residents after the initial launch which resulted in unprecedented traffic to the Union City Board of Education website.
Promotional materials created for the client.
Promotional material for a client event.
