Purple Mountain Media is a boutique consultancy supporting the creative economy, cultural initiatives, and strategic partnerships.
Founded by Maura Kelly, a trusted advisor and Emmy Award-winning producer, Purple Mountain Media brings deep expertise in media, marketing, and management to every collaboration. We work closely with social enterprises, creators, and government agencies to develop and amplify high-impact programs and cultural initiatives.
Creative + Strategy | Partnerships | Content + Social Media Strategy | Business Development | Media Relations | External Relations | Events
Our Impact
Maura is a great collaborator; her creative skills are only matched by her project management skills. She’s a creative thinker, skilled producer and understands today’s evolving media ecosystem and trends.
Brad Garfield, CEO, North Ridge Productions
Maura is a master of her craft. Her creative-thinking, diligent work style, and prolific network proved a vital asset to our efforts in marketing and fundraising. Together, we achieved great things.
President, Helping Other People Foundation
Maura Kelly’s contributions to the America’s Service Commission’s network have been immense. By sharing her expertise with six state commissions, she helped the organizations take their communications work to an entirely new level.
Kaira Esgate, CEO, America’s Service Commissions
She is an amazing storyteller. Maura helped us create impact through top-tier content that highlights and amplifies member experiences on our social media channels.
Maureen Eccleston, Executive Director, PennSERVE
I want to say a big thank you to Maura for promoting the AmeriCorps PSA to television stations across the state of South Carolina and border markets in Georgia. Her media relations work has raised over $900,000.00 of in-kind media airtime that we can use as a match for our federal grant funds. It’s a testament to how professional, and effective Maura is in her outreach efforts!
Emily S, Interim Executive Director, United Way of SC
Maura played a vital role in helping to raise the profile of the LEAP Leadership Program and her work took the program to the next level. She was strategic in partnering with the right community partners and designing CSR projects for our participants to work on. The teams delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars of pro-bono services to our nonprofit partners.
Mary McEvoy, LEAP Founder & VP, PepsiCo.
Maura Kelly is a standout community organizer, an excellent moderator and a consummate media and communications professional. She brings enormous empathy, innate talent and sure-footed confidence to every task she undertakes, combining smarts with common sense to get things done. A born leader, she brings out the best in others while holding herself to a standard few can emulate. It has been my pleasure to work with her over the past 15 years, in her role as Honorary Chair of the annual New York-New Belfast conference, in order to build strong bridges between Ireland and the US.
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, CEO Belfast Media Group
The hugely important thing about having women in leadership roles in business is that it creates a different type of decision making and a different environment inside the workplace. LEAP creates role models and it improves the quality of thinking in leadership. Maura and her team created an impressive and valuable program with LEAP.
Ronan Dunne, CEO of Verizon Consumer Group
Our Clients & Partners
