ECHO COMMUNICATIONS
is a creative consulting firm helping clients reach wider audiences, build bridges across sectors, and address their philanthropic needs. ECHO recognizes that clients achieve their goals when they develop messages that resonate and find innovative ways to attract new audiences.
We work with socially-oriented businesses, cutting-edge nonprofits and foundations to cultivate strategic alliances that advance mutual interests, and to create outreach strategies that spark action for lasting social change.
ECHO COMMUNICATIONS is a small, agile company with a top-tier network of specialists, which enables us to tailor our services to our clients' specific needs. We are experienced brokers of cross-sector relationships, helping clients build wide-reaching alliances for social, cultural and policy impact.
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 Bridge-Building and Access:
ECHO has deep experience and expertise working with all the major actors driving social change, including foundations, corporations, coalitions, and nonprofits, and strong ties to leadership in all of these communities.
This includes an understanding of the many points of entry that allow clients to reach out to these constituencies and mobilize them in sector-specific ways, as well as knowledge of their institutional assets and constraints.
ECHO can leverage this knowledge and these relationships to identify opportunities for dialogue, achieve common goals, and produce win-win success stories.
Experience on Both Sides of the Fence:
ECHO has comprehensive experience working with both the nonprofit and foundation sectors. This enables us to help philanthropists and social marketers (including socially-oriented businesses, foundations, and philanthropic advisors) who are seeking to identify effective nonprofits to partner with from a variety of fields. We provide skilled guidance on how to evaluate which nonprofits to consider supporting, and make recommendations for what successful partnerships might look like. We also have the flip-side capability of being able to help cutting-edge nonprofits gain insight into how best to attract the attention of the corporate and philanthropic communities.
Knowledge of Diverse Issues and Tactical Approaches:
The company has strong capabilities and a long history of experience working on a variety of issue fronts, from microfinance to new technology to domestic violence prevention and international security.
ECHO is able to bring quick learning to new issues, and new resources to each of these fields. This long history of working in different fields and using many different tactical outreach strategies allows
ECHO to bring innovative and field-tested options to each client – for example, a highly effective coalition-building mechanism, a winning way to organize on a shoestring budget, etc.
Leadership Skills Gained at the Highest Levels of Public Service:
These leadership skills include the ability to develop new and innovative strategies, bring unexpected partners together for greater impact, and envision creative solutions to old problems.
Whenever possible, ECHO strives to enhance these skills in clients and their leadership teams, as part of the larger process of achieving project goals and sustaining them for the long term.
Communications Theory and Practice:
ECHO has an unusual combination of communications skills to serve clients best. This includes both a savvy command of the range of communications tools available to promote social change, and a sophisticated knowledge of communications theory, including knowledge about which strategies work and do not work to mobilize audiences, create incentives for change, and spread innovative ideas.
We put our knowledge of communication theory into practice, bringing clients a unique expertise that helps them reach their outreach goals and avoids the problem of "flash in the pan" projects that are one-hit wonders because they are not grounded in an understanding of what makes audiences tick.
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Mimi Ghez founded ECHO COMMUNICATIONS because her years of work across a
range of sectors –nonprofit, corporate, foundation and policy-making – gave
her a powerful insight: that the interests of these communities intersect in
many overlooked ways, and that a deeper understanding of the operations,
points of entry, and bottom-line goals of each can reveal many opportunities
for innovative cross-sector partnerships, force-multiplying the impact.
Ghez is widely recognized for her creative and strategic approaches to influencing social norms and public policy. She has worked with foundations, Fortune 500 companies, leading nonprofits, coalitions, diplomats, and government agencies to develop alliances for social change, reaching millions.
She has partnered with many of the country's leading foundations to support innovative approaches to policy change, worked closely with leading nonprofits and major corporations to develop award-winning national awareness and cause-related marketing campaigns, and served as an expert on communications for social change for many branches of government, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Justice, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work has received awards for innovation in social communications from both the University of Pennsylvania and the Council on Foundations. Read More »
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