Bridging Commerce and Culture with Community and Constituency
The Blackmon Organization focuses on bridging commerce and culture with community and constituency. In efforts to connect those worlds, we work to foster engagement campaigns for entities interested in tapping into the heart of New York’s diverse population.
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ABOUT US
About The Organization
The Blackmon Organization focuses on bridging commerce and culture with community and constituency. In efforts to connect those worlds, we work to foster engagement campaigns for entities interested in tapping into the heart of New York’s diverse population.
Through robust and innovative strategies, our team supports clients by social mapping their vision. We connect our partners in meaningful ways by creating activations in Government, politics, education, and community service that express the one motivation: Investment Networking for tangible results
Services
Professional Services Offered
Social Mapping
Consultation based on the client’s social / corporate / political location, needs, and goals.
Increase Your Credibility
We will help develop a clear articulation of an authentic agenda.
Public Relations
Creator of campaigns for image and relationship management across sectors.
Biography
Larry Scott Blackmon
Larry Scott Blackmon is an extremely active and influential member of the community. Professionally, Larry (or LSB as he is also known) is CEO of The Blackmon Organization, a full service government affairs, public relations, consulting, and entertainment services firm. Larry represents clients who wish to know New York City’s influencers, power brokers, and community leaders.
Prior to starting his firm, Larry served as Vice President of Public Affairs at FreshDirect, the leading e-commerce grocer in the Northeast. At FreshDirect, Larry leads the division, expanding current partnerships, cultivating new relationships, managing government affairs, running FreshDirect’s Corporate Social Responsibility program and serving as a key company spokesperson.
Strategy
Strategy & Campaign
Management
Integrated Marketing Campaings
Collaborates with clients to lay out a campaign’s goals and create a direct, data-powered roadmap. Our teams also work together with creatives to provide the biggest punch to every campaign, assisting in fan engagement and awareness.
Business Development & Venture Creation
Assess short-term and long-term goals for clients based on authentic and realistic strengths. Create a plan to ascertain these goals and through our extensive resources work to connect clients with partners for new business opportunities. While working in numerous industry sectors, we see our clients as competing in ever-changing, dynamic markets that step over borders. Our team helps the client step over those thresholds and enables them to intimately grasps new vision, create a communication plan to use as a means to influence target audiences.
Crisis Communications
Our core competencies are in community engagement, which includes offering a full range of communications services and solutions that include strategic planning, positioning and messaging, media relations, digital marketing, and thought leadership to help our clients overcome “special situations” utilizing our expertise in issues and crisis management to salvage reputations, careers, and campaigns.
Awards
Awards & Honors
Larry is an alum of the Coro Leadership New York program, and is the immediate past president of the New York State Association of Parliamentarians.
Larry is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, the first Black Greek Letter Organization established in the United States. Serving in many high-ranking leadership positions, in July of 2021, Larry was named the Fraternity’s “2021-2023 Outstanding Alumni Brother of the Year.”
For the years 2016 – 2023, Larry was recognized as one of the 50 most powerful community leaders in the Bronx and has been named as of the “40 under 40” people to watch in both the Network Journal and City and State publications. From 2021- 2023, Larry was named as one of the “MWBE Power 50 in City and State NY. “
