Executive Director

Gideon Rosenblatt has led Groundwire toward an increased focus on citizen engagement services and on programs aimed at strengthening cross-organizational ties within the environmental movement. Read more

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

Director of Consulting Services

For the past ten years, David has managed a wide variety of website and database projects. He works closely with outreach staff, technical staff, and consultants, keeping an eye toward sustainability, quality, and fun. 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

Strategist

Drew has been a member of the Groundwire team for since 2002. His leadership has helped transform Groundwire's consulting practices around strategy and audience centric communications. He has been a critical contributor to some of our most innovative strategy projects and has supported many of our innovation investments. Today, Drew is working to shape the innovations taking place within the Groundwire Labs.  Read more

phone: 503.222.5064 | email drew (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 | 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

CRM Team Volunteer

For the last 50 years or so, John has favored righting wrongs through organized data while a partner at  Social Venture Partners. When he saw the chance to grab an oar and pull with the crack CRM team at Groundwire, he jumped at it. Read more

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 developing the engagement platform. 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 Team Volunteer

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

Support Manager

Sam has extensively documented many of the online tools used by Groundwire and our clients, in particular, Plone. He is now focused on delivering training to clients and supporting program staff on project work. Read more

phone: 206.286.1235 x21 | email sam (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

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 | email chism(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

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

email matthew (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

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

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

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 | email mattyoder (at) groundwire.org