Saturday, 19th May 2012 5:04:pm

Idealist Marketing's CEO is a lifelong social change agent with broad experience in nonprofit startups and management, political and advocacy campaigns, and socially responsible business development. To amplify her impact without the overhead and bureaucracy of a big corporate office, she has built a nimble network of talented, independent professionals and creatives who are dedicated to social change. Our clients are socially responsible businesses, nonprofit organizations, progressive political candidates, and social entrepreneurs with a vision that needs our strategic and operational expertise. We amplify their impact with a full range of public relations, marketing, and creative services, from grant writing and major donor campaigns, to online marketing and social media mayhem, to collaterals and digital ads, to traditional and online media campaigns. Our team members also provide consulting in organizational strategy, program development, and nonprofit startups. Not sure if we can help? Just send us a message with a description of your project, and we'll give you a quote.

Amy-Belanger-optAmy Belanger is a marketing professional with 25 years experience in nonprofit leadership and socially responsible business development. She is also an award-winning journalist, essayist, and fiction writer, whose credential include graduate work at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communications.

She has campaigned for social justice and environmental sustainability throughout the U.S. She directed Student Environmental Action Coalition and ran the headquarters of the Green Party USA before returning to her hometown in 1996 to organize the successful campaign against offshore drilling in the federal and state waters off Florida’s coast. In the early 2000's, she raised $1.5 million to launch and expand the 6-state Great Forest campaign of Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition. Most recently, she served as Deputy Director of Green America’s Green Business Network, where she launched new programs to help green businesses survive and thrive in the new economy.

Belanger launched Idealist Marketing in 2002 as a marketing consultancy for socially responsible businesses and nonprofits. Clients have included Ralph Nader, MacNeil-Lehrer Productions (the NewsHour), Green America/Green Business Network, Social Venture Network, American Sustainable Business Council, Natural Innovation, Arizona Green Building Expo, Gentle Strength Cooperative, Terra Sante Ecovillage, and many more. 

Expertise: Marketing, Social Media, Copywriting, Fundraising, Political & Advocacy Campaigns, Nonprofit Consulting
Current projects: www.greenbusinessnetwork.org, www.greenamericatoday.org, www.gogreennation.org

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