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You want to create a better
world, and so do we.
Idealist Gifts helps close the loop between the people and businesses who want to make the world a better place.
We help well meaning people find the products they need in brands that are genuinely organic, green, fair trade and otherwise socially responsible.
We also help promote the socially responsible businesses offering these products so that, when people are ready to make the shift, it's easier to find the products they need at prices they can afford.
You can rely on Idealist Gifts to promote only companies who are members of discriminating associations like Co-op America, the Fair Trade Federation, and Businesses for Social Responsibility; or who offer products that are certified organic, Veriflora, or Transfair.
If you would like to learn how to redirect more of your time, money, attention and energy into positive change, sign up at the right to receive our newsletter. We'll send you news on positive change and ways you can participate.
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DELPHINE CUOMO
Contributing Writer
Delphine Cuomo is an award-winning poet, freelance writer, inspirational speaker and independent filmmaker. She is a recipient of the 2000 Shari Meakin Emerging Writing Award and the Capilano College Scribble for Literacy. Her credits include "A Fish Jumps to Lick the Moon," "Five by Five," a co-collection of snap fiction. She is presently working on a film short, "Mind The Chicken," interviewing indigenous elders of the American Southwest for a feature film on Native American prophecies.
WILLIAM FOSTER, PH.D.
IT Consultant
William Foster, Ph.D., is president of Foster and Brahm Consulting, providing sociological research and teaching on the global impacts of the Internet. Foster specializes in communications technology convergence, with a focus on advances being made in China.
He received his Ph.D. in Global Internet Studies from University of Arizona and his B.A. in religious studies from Williams College. He teaches sociology and Internet technology classes at Arizona State University.
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AMY J. BELANGER
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
Idealist Gifts
Amy Belanger launched Idealist Gifts after a 20-year career directing conservation organizations.
Belanger also heads Idealist Communications, a consulting company serving nonprofits, socially responsible businesses, social entrepreneurs, and other small businesses whose mission is to make the world a better place.
The company's services include marketing and PR, copywriting, editing, and design. For companies with a do-it-yourself style, coaching and consulting are available.
Belanger has served as consultant to MacNeil-Lehrer Productions (the NewsHour), Ralph Nader, The Arizona Green Building Expo, and many other socially responsible clients.
She is an award winning writer, a published author, and a respected authority on environmental issues.
Her business advice will appear as a chapter in Guerrilla Marketing on the Front Lines, due in bookstores this summer. She is presently working on two books with Jay Conrad Levinson: Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits and Guerrilla Marketing for Green Businesses.
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