Mind4, Inc
City-funded organization
Mind4, Inc is the corporate/legal name of DCF Advertising, a Midtown Manhattan creative agency founded in March 2000 by James DeAngelo (with John Fortune joining as partner in 2003) that specializes in public health and social-marketing campaigns, including the city's 2007 NYC Condom campaign. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is its dominant NYC client, holding a $10 million active contract as of August 2026 for "Creative Development of Public Education" awarded via RFP, plus a string of prior RFP-won and negotiated public-education advertising contracts stretching back to 2012; it has been awarded $40 million all-time in city contracts, of which 40% of contract value ($16 million) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid.
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Professional Services
- City contracts (active)
- $10,000,000 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $40,262,669 · 10 since 2012, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $19,484,872
- Won without a fresh bid
- 40% of contract value · $16,277,669 · 5 contracts
- Based in
- New York, NY
Holds contracts at
- Administration for Children's Services City agency
- Department of Consumer Affairs City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- Creative Development of Public Education Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620268804317 $10,000,000
- Advertising agencies for the execution of public education a Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620200001276 · ended 2023 $9,000,000
- Creative development of public education plans Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620171404531 · ended 2019 $9,000,000
- On-call advertising media campaign services. Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620131416967 · ended 2015 $4,900,000
- ADVERTISING AGENCIES Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620161408252 · ended 2016 $2,277,669
- DCF Advertising Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620258801885 · ended 2025 $2,000,000
- Continued creative development services for media campaigns Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620248802851 · ended 2024 $2,000,000
- Advertising agencies for the execution of public education Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620268800731 · ended 2025 $1,000,000
- YOUTH DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST(YDS) AD CAMPAIGN. Administration for Children's Services · CT106820220002176 · ended 2022 $65,000
- PSL VIDEO CAMPAIGN Department of Consumer Affairs · CT186620151401520 · ended 2014 $20,000