For more than 10 years, founder, Jodie Lapchick was the creative force behind Lapchick Creative, a strategic marketing and communications firm in Portland, Maine.

As creative director, Jodie played the lead role in developing many well-known regional brands, and used her conscious leadership skills to facilitate strategic alliances between nonprofit and for-profit clients.

Respected throughout New England for its team approach and positive culture, many of Jodie's former colleagues are superb marketing professionals who continue to work with her today on a freelance or contract basis.

Since founding Lapchick & Co., Jodie's focus is exclusively on those marketing disciplines that will produce a better world, with her primary concentration on cause branding.

She is a long-standing member of Maine Businesses for Social Responsibility and a member of the Cause Marketing Forum, Maine Association of Nonprofits, Maine Women's Fund's Women Standing Together, and many cause-related social networking groups.