Executive Director

Neal Myrick joined Groundwire as executive director in May of 2010, bringing a wealth of experience in both nonprofit leadership and technology management. For the last six years, he was the managing director of technology at Casey Family Programs, a national foundation focusing on issues of foster care. Prior to Casey he spent a decade working for Seattle-based software companies including Visio, where he built and managed a worldwide team of IT professionals. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x12 | email neal (at) groundwire.org

Director of Consulting Services

Over the past eight years, Dave Averill has been instrumental in building our nationally recognized consulting team. He manages the client process and an all-star team of software developers and consultants. Dave works with each client from intake through implementation through evaluation, ensuring that the environmental groups we work with have the civic engagement tools they need to effectively engage, organize and mobilize the public. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x18 | email davida (at) groundwire.org

Web Development Program Manager

Jon tries to save the environmental community's websites from the 1990s—he makes websites behave the way they should and look their best using the open source content management system Plone. Read more

phone: 503.222.5064 | email jonb (at) groundwire.org

Project Manager

From intake through launch, Kelley manages website projects for Groundwire. Kelley came to Groundwire in 2006 after working more than seven years in the decision-analysis software industry, where she focused on web integration and IT project management. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x26 | email kelley (at) groundwire.org

CRM Consultant

Evan brings 15 years experience providing database and strategic technology solutions to dozens of businesses and nonprofits. Most recently, he led the database consulting practice at NPower Seattle. Evan is the author of several books on Microsoft Access. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x14 | email evan (at) groundwire.org

Development Director

Tiffany's strong commitment to social and environmental justice brought her to Groundwire in early 2006. Before joining Groundwire, Tiffany spent more than 10 years fundraising in and for the Seattle nonprofit community. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x13 | email tiffany (at) groundwire.org

Staff Writer

Sara enjoys writing about the environment and technology in plain language. She was raised in the high desert of Oregon -- home to timber barons, cattle ranchers and environmentalists. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x42 | email sara (at) groundwire.org

Web Developer

David divides his time between implementing websites in Plone, keeping the servers running, and working in Groundwire Labs. He likes Plone so much that he also works on improving it in his spare time, as a member of the Plone 4 framework team. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x32 | email davidglick (at) groundwire.org

CRM Consultant

David joins Groundwire after nine years of working on his own, trying to save the world, one nonprofit database and web project at a time.  He's excited to work once again with smart, motivated people, and to continue to serve the nonprofit community. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x25 | email davidhabib (at) groundwire.org

Support Manager

Sam has extensively documented many of the online tools used by Groundwire and our clients including the Plone Content Management System and Salesforce. He is now focused on delivering the Email Broadcasting consulting program for Groundwire in addition to training, web analytics consulting, content strategy and related projects. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x21 | email sam (at) groundwire.org

CRM Consultant

Nicole's earlier life was in programming before choosing to focus on data and the internet. She has been a web administrator, database administrator in a start-up, has studied data as a strategic corporate resource, has crafted strategic plans during a stint as an enterprise architect and developed small systems on the web. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x16 | email nicole (at) groundwire.org

Strategist

Chris McCullough joins Groundwire with a combination of hands-on technical skills and nine years of in-the-trenches campaign experience. He was the campaign director for Congressman Jay Inslee and managed the successful I-937, a statewide renewable energy initiative. He helped launch Fuse, an online progressive advocacy organization, and was the deputy director for the Obama campaign in Washington state.
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phone: 206.286.1235 x19 | email chrism(at) groundwire.org

Labs Manager

Eric Magnuson joins Groundwire to lead the Labs program and help pioneer a new model for catalyzing innovation for the environmental nonprofit sector. He comes to the position having spent the last fourteen years developing Web technologies and the last ten directly serving the needs of nonprofits online. Previously, Eric founded and was Managing Director of Web Collective, an eight person web consulting company focused on organizations with a sustainability mission. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x22 | email eric (at) groundwire.org

CRM Program Manager

Dave Manelski is a database specialist who leads Groundwire’s CRM team. He has been a project leader on Groundwire’s largest CRM projects, including work with Green for All, Idaho Conservation League, the Alliance for Climate Education, Tree People, Dogwood Initiative, and The Story of Stuff. Dave is a certified Salesforce.com developer. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x31 | email davem (at) groundwire.org

Operations Director

Christine joined Groundwire after taking a break from the paid workforce to raise two daughters. A veteran of twenty years in technology management roles at large corporations, she is excited to be making a contribution to the mission of Groundwire. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x29 | email christine (at) groundwire.org

Senior Strategist

Over the past fourteen years, Jon has worked with hundreds of conservation organizations on projects that range from strategic communications planning to running ethernet cable through basements. Currently, he provides online communications strategy consulting to Groundwire's clients, moonlights as our utility infielder, and thinks big thoughts. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x15 | email jon (at) groundwire.org

Information Systems Manager

Sean is responsible for the integrity of the data at Groundwire and for some of the administrative functions at the office, including HR,  Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable. Additionally, he does a little of this and a little of that: proofreading around the office, sporadic support for our email list hosting services, random support for our fundraising, and with the intersection of our programs and our bookkeeping practices. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x11 | email sean (at) groundwire.org

CRM Consultant

The founding member of the Bellingham field office, Matthew is a long-time collaborator who is now happy to be part of Groundwire. His diabolical plan: to get organizations set up with databases that fit their mission and methods, not the other way around. Read more

phone: 206.201.2542 (Seattle) | 360.647.0230 (Bellingham)

email matthew (at) groundwire.org

Director of Client Strategy

Karen brings significant expertise in membership engagement, coalition building, fundraising, and asking questions. Karen’s first real job was managing a performing arts center called New City Theater. Other previous credits include Development Director for Corporate Accountability International, Associate Director of Washington Environmental Alliance for Voter Education (WEAVE), and Managing Director of Washington Conservation Voters. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x20 | email karen (at) groundwire.org

Project Associate

Mennonite Voluntary Service has released version 4.0 of the Mennonite Volunteer product.  In this version, code-named "Matt Yoder," MVS returns to the same Goshen College education that powered the first two releases. According to MVS the new Volunteer is optimized to integrate with the web team at Groundwire. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x17 | email mattyoder (at) groundwire.org

Web Developer

Veda is the Swiss Army Knife of web consultants. She possesses a wide swath of skills, ranging from skinning to project management, web design, documentation, training, and more. She has themed more than 60 Plone websites and taught a theming class at the Plone Conference in Italy in 2007. In addition, she is co-editor of the theming section of Plone.org's documentation section. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x23 | email veda (at) groundwire.org