Care2's Nonprofit Services is a team of seasoned professionals with years of experience working in nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Contact us to schedule a free consultation with any of our team members!

Clinton O'Brien, Vice President of Nonprofit Services

Clint joined Care2 in 2005 to lead the team of professionals who today serve more than 700 leading nonprofits that rely on Care2 as a preferred source for recruiting new donors, promoting causes and winning advocacy victories.

Previously, Clint spent seven years at nonprofit TV network PBS, where he led business development and forged alliances with AOL, NPR, Intel and other organizations. He also led the project to equip local PBS stations with tools for online fundraising, and for three years led the PBS Adult Learning Service, providing online and video courses to colleges nationwide. In a former life, Clint worked for seven years as a reporter for Newsweek, the Associated Press and other news organizations. From 1991 to 1993, he reported from Moscow during the Kremlin coup, the USSR collapse and Russia's transition to a market economy. He is the 1989 winner of the National Press Club Washington Correspondence Prize.

Clint founded and led the monthly "Wharton Nonprofit Roundtable," a group of more than 120 Washington, DC-area alumni of the Wharton School of Business, all of whom work in the nonprofit sector.

Contact Clint by phone at 202.785.7308 or email: clint (at) care2team (dot) com

Eric Glader, Director of Nonprofit Services

Eric has been with Care2 since 2001 helping nonprofits with advocacy, fundraising and membership growth. Prior to joining Care2, he worked at an ePhilanthropy application service provider that enabled the collection of charitable donations online, with clients such as American Express, Cisco Systems, E*Trade, Applied Materials and NEC. He started off his philanthropy career at The Nature Conservancy.

Glader is a graduate from UCLA’s undergraduate program and Vanderbilt University’s MBA program.

Contact Eric by phone at 650.622.0868 or email: eric (at) care2team (dot) com

Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services

Since 2006, Justin has worked with Care2 to help over 100 nonprofits across a wide variety of issues customize strategic campaigns to reach and recruit millions of supporters from Care2's vast community.  He launched the nonprofit marketing blog, frogloop.com as a way for Care2 to share case studies and best practices for nonprofit online marketing, advocacy and fundraising, and he developed one of the first social network ROI calculators to help nonprofits plan and evaluate their social media efforts. He is passionate about helping nonprofits use a data-driven, efficient approach to online marketing.

Justin has an MBA from the University of Colorado and in addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on the use of networks at the National Defense University, Justin has a passion for international development and indigeneous rights through studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo called Afrique Profonde. 

Justin volunteers on the Strategy Committee for the Boulder Farmers Market, served on the Board of Prevent Human Trafficking, and enjoys climbing peaks, trail running, skiing, and selling his original, flavored roasted nuts at the farmers markets on the weekends in Boulder, Colorado.

Contact Justin by phone at 303.475.4827 or email: justin (at) care2team (dot) com

Connect with Justin on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/justincperkins

Eric Rardin, Director of Nonprofit Services

As a director of nonprofit services at Care2 Eric has helped over 100 nonprofits grow their online fundraising programs and recruit hundreds of thousands of supporters. Eric also serves as a member of the board of directors for two national nonprofits, the Marine Fish Conservation Network and Humane Farm Animal Care.

Prior to joining Care2 Eric designed and executed integrated advocacy campaigns for environmental nonprofits for more than seven years. Most recently, at the Marine Fish Conservation Network (MFCN), Eric helped lead a coalition of 190 organizations to successfully reauthorize the national law governing fishing in U.S. ocean waters. At the National Environmental Trust (NET), Eric helped design and implement several campaigns including NET’s ‘Take a Pass on Chilean Sea Bass’ and Magnuson-Stevens Act reform campaigns. Eric also developed and led NET’s marine mammal project.

Eric has an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University, an MA in government and international studies from the University of South Carolina and a BS in political science from the University of Wyoming.

Contact Eric by phone at 202.785.7305 or email: ericr (at) care2team (dot) com

Ryann Miller, Director of Nonprofit Services

A specialist in online and integrated fundraising and campaigning with a special emphasis on online media, Ryann works with nonprofits to help them recruit passionate supporters from Care2. Prior to joining Care2, Ryann co-founded DonorTrends, a leading fundraising intelligence service that helps nonprofits uncover hidden potential in their donor files.

Before that Ryann was an online fundraising consultant at HJC New Media, where she worked with leading nonprofits to leverage the internet in nonprofit fundraising, advocacy and marketing. Past clients include Greenpeace International, The International Campaign for Tibet, Amnesty International and a variety of humanitarian, relief, environmental, and health based organizations

Co-author of “The Web of Integration: Fully Integrated Fundraising Campaigns” and "Insight Tools for Surviving and Thriving" and speaker at fundraising conferences, Ryann is a PhD dropout (focus area: North American modern Buddhism), owns an off-grid island summer cottage and lives with her husband and dog Hank. Ryann is currently on maternity leave and enjoying her time with her newborn son.

Contact Ryann by email: ryannm (at) care2team (dot) com

Ashley Hansen, Director of Nonprofit Services

Ashley works with nonprofits to win advocacy campaigns, build lists of supporters and drive traffic to their website or cause. Prior to joining Care2, Ashley spent 10 years at the Student Conservation Association (SCA) where she helped young people start careers in conservation. Ashley held many roles including Environmental Educator, Recruiter, Office Manager, Alumni Coordinator and Partnership Representative. In her last role, Ashley traveled throughout the Southeast United States visiting National Parks, Forests, Refuges, Historic Sites and other public lands to partner with land managers. She helped build programs for hundreds of young people to volunteer on their public lands. These SCA volunteers spent 3 weeks to a year working as a biologist, trail builder, forester, environmental educator, historian, planner and more.

Throughout her life, Ashley has visited over 200 public lands only to come home to find her favorite National Park, the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, right here in DC. In addition, she presented at several conferences per year and was an invited speaker to Federal leadership teams.

Ashley earned an Engineering Science degree from Vanderbilt University and joined Care2 in 2011 where she is thrilled to be expanding her reach to include other causes.

Contact Ashley by phone at 202.785.7304 or email: ashleyh (at) care2team (dot) com

Molly Connors, Director of Nonprofit Services

Molly learned first hand the power of having a ready and dedicated list of supporters to turn to for support and donations during her many years with PBS. Molly was one of a team of three who started PBS Online in the mid 1990s, the precursor to pbs.org.

Molly started her marketing career over 20 years ago on the front lines... working in customer service for a Richmond, Virginia cable company. Those early lessons in the importance of providing exceptional customer service were invaluable as she built a career in marketing and business development with companies such as C-SPAN, The Learning Channel (TLC), PBS, the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and most recently in starting her own Women Owned Small Business providing marketing services and branded product solutions to clients.

When not helping nonprofits recruit new donors and supporters, you can find Molly enjoying time with her family at her home near Weems Creek in Annapolis, Maryland.

Molly graduated from Randolph-Macon College with a BA in history.

Contact Molly by phone at 202.785.7309 or email: mollyc (at) care2team (dot) com

Dane Grams, Director of Nonprofit Services

Dane is the newest member of the Care2 family, joining the team in December of 2011 and is based in the Big Apple.

Dane is a seasoned online communications and fundraising professional with 18 years of directly related hands-on experience. He has directed strategic planning and implementation of innovative, integrated and award-winning direct marketing and online campaigns that have helped organizations establish identities, build strong brands, and inspire tens of thousands of individuals to support meaningful causes with both their voices and their dollars.

In March of 2009, Dane was appointed to the position of senior director of development at GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network. In his role he oversaw a nearly $7 million dollar revenue budget that had grown more than 21% during his tenure. Previously, Dane worked for the Human Rights Campaign for 11 years where he last served as the online strategy director, building one of the most admired online communications programs in the non-profit community that has grown to more than 1 million online constituents and donors.

He has also been fortunate enough to work and consult for several other amazing non-profits including Greenpeace, GLAAD, the Cathedral of Hope, Witness for Peace and the Alliance for Justice. Dane is an avid runner who is training for his tenth marathon and also serves as the race director for the Front Runners Pride Run in central park that attracts more than 5,000 participants. He is also a member of the National Leadership Council for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Contact Dane by phone at 202.549.3510 or email: daneg (at) care2team (dot) com

Ned Baker, Nonprofit Services Manager

Ned Baker joined Care2 in 2009 as a Business Development Associate and currently manages the monthly webinar program, conference agenda, and other aspects of Care2's nonprofit marketing. Before joining Care2, Ned enjoyed years of international exposure including work as an agriculture extension agent in northern Zambia through the U.S. Peace Corps, where he gained a working knowledge of grassroots efforts aimed at improving livelihoods of the rural poor.

Ned has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh, which includes training in rhetoric, economics, and foundations of law. His academic and professional pursuits have provided him experience in the fields of law, politics, sales, and international development. Community service has always been close to his heart: from volunteering in church to planting trees along city streets, Ned continues to be an advocate of the locally-focused approach to development.

When not traveling or geeking-out over Apple products, Ned enjoys spending time with family in Western New York, and visiting his two brothers, three nieces and one nephew.

Contact Ned by phone at 202.785.7301 or email: nedb (at) care2team (dot) com

Connect with Ned on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ndbaker

Kara Fujita, Nonprofit Services Associate

Kara joined the Care2 business development team in 2011 with a passion for helping nonprofits succeed in their advocacy and fundraising goals. Prior to joining Care2, Kara was in Chile working for Amnesty International's Urgent Action program and anti-poverty campaign, through which she developed a particular interest in government and corporate accountability and community activism.

Kara has a BA in International Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she focused on Latin American studies, international politics, and educational outreach.

Contact Kara by phone at 202.785.7302 or email: karaf (at) care2team (dot) com

Connect with Kara on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kmfuj

Maxine Battis, Nonprofit Services Associate

Maxine, a DC native, joined the Care2 Business Development team in 2011, happy to be back in the nation’s capital after her spirit for travel kept her away for many years.

She graduated from Smith College with a BA in comparative literature and film studies, with a concentration in French and English as well as a smattering of Italian and Yiddish. Her particular interest in language, culture, and media somehow led her to Geneva, Switzerland, where she dove head first into the world of NGO’s and human rights while working at the International Labor Organization. She’s thrilled to be at Care2 helping to connect so many important causes with millions of supporters!

Prior to Care2, Maxine taught English classes in Northern Virginia. In her free time, she still loves to tutor, dabble in documentary film, and test the resilience of her eardrums at local rock concerts.

Contact Maxine by email: maxineb (at) care2team (dot) com

Meredith Enkoff, Nonprofit Services Intern

Meredith recently graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana with degrees in Journalism and French. She moved to DC in early August from Columbus, Indiana, known for cornfields and Cummins (the local engine production facility.)

Her love of traveling also took her to Aix-en-Provence, France, where she spent her junior year of college. There, she spent ten months studying French literature, history, religion, and film, and taking the TGV all over Europe (Italy was her favorite).

In addition to Meredith's two majors, she received minors in Business and Italian. Her dream job is to write (and hopefully publish) books. Until then, she is happy to serve as Care2's DC Intern, drinking copious amounts of iced coffee and listening to Pandora while plugging away in Salesforce.

She spends her time being vegan and reading all the teen fiction romance novels she can afford.

Contact Meredith by email: meredithe (at) care2team (dot) com

Joe Baker, Vice President of Causes and Advocacy

Joe Baker joined Care2 as Director of Nonprofit Campaigns in August 2006. He now manages Care2's campaigning and also oversees Care2's Cause Channels.

Previously, Joe was the Executive Director of N-TEN. He also worked for Amnesty International for many years as the Director of Internet Communications, Grassroots Advocacy Director and Deputy Director, Western Region.

In addition to his extensive nonprofit management experience, Joe spent seven years performing and managing telecommunications and wireless systems research and has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Economics/Systems Science from UCLA.

Joe serves on the Board of Directors of Death Penalty Focus, on the advisory board of GiveForward.org, and volunteers for the Sierra Club and Amnesty International.

Contact Joe by phone at 650.622.0860 x125 or email: joe (at) care2team (dot) com

Natasha Nummedal, Senior Campaign Manager

Natasha joined Care2 in May 2007, with a background in field organizing and grassroots organization from 18 years of volunteer and work experience in the human rights movement.

Prior to moving to California to join Care2's campaign team, she worked for Amnesty International USA's Urgent Action program and the YMCA of Boulder Valley.

Natasha has a BS in Mathematics and Philosophy from LSU, and a MA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado-Boulder, where she focused her studies around feminist ethics and rights theory. In her spare time, she can often be found roaming the trails of northern California with her husband and 80-lb "puppy."

Contact Natasha by phone at 650.622.0860 x112 or email: natasha (at) care2team (dot) com

Samer Rabadi, Community Activism Manager

Samer joined Care2 in early 2008 after having spent the previous decade working in human rights, education, and student activism. This previous work experience includes Amnesty International USA and the Oregon State Bar.

He has a BA in English from UCLA and a MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.Samer is particularly interested in ways that geographically disparate communities form online in order to create change at the local and global levels. 

Contact Samer by phone at 650-622-0860 or email: samerr (at) care2team (dot) com

Emily Vaughan, Online Campaigner

Emily joined Care2 in January 2010. Prior, she did energy and agriculture reporting for NationalJournal.com and worked on the editorial team for In These Times, a non-profit progressive magazine in Chicago. She began her advocacy career as a canvasser and field manager for Environment Illinois/U.S. PIRG, raising money to lobby for transportation funding, reduction of global warming pollution and stopping industrial waste dumping in the Great Lakes.

Emily is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where she focused on magazine writing and editing.

Contact Emily by phone at 650.622.0860 or email: emilyv (at) care2team (dot) com

Kayla Coleman, Campaigns Associate

Kayla joined Care2 in 2009 wanting to take her passion for animal rights and the environment to the next level. She studied Art and French at the University of California, Santa Barbara and always tries to bring a bit of creativity and an artistic eye her "je ne sais quoi," you might say to her campaign work. Some of her particular areas of interest include campaigning for laws against animal abuse, promoting humanity towards farmed animals, and educating as many people as she can about the importance of animal adoption.

In her spare time, Kayla draws, paints, runs, bakes vegan cookies, and spoils her pet rabbits.

Contact Kayla by phone at 650.622.0860 or email: kaylac (at) care2team (dot) com

Ellen Braverman, Campaigns Associate

Ellen joined Care2 in 2011 after working as an organizer with the Ohio Democratic Party. She studied Creative Writing and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, and has been a passionate progressive activist longer than she's been able to walk. She has a particular interest in Feminist and LGBT activism, as well as a love of international relations spurred on by time living abroad in Japan. In her free time she reads an excessive amount, knits, spends time with her pet gecko, and practices her language skills by watching Japanese soap operas.

Contact Ellen by phone at 650.622.0860 or email: ellenb (at) care2team (dot) com

Cori Ann Miller, Campaigns Associate

Cori Ann joined Care2 in 2011. Before joining Care2, she worked with Rainforest Action Network's Palm Oil Campaign and the political office of the Sierra Club. Cori Ann studied Sociology with a concentration in Environmental Issues and Globalization and English at the University of Tennessee. She has a particular interest in environmental and social justice issues, especially situations in which the two overlap, inspired by her close relationship to Appalachia and her study of mountaintop removal mining. In her spare time, Cori Ann enjoys rock climbing, hiking with her dog and cat, book club meetings and exploring the Bay Area.

Contact Cori Ann by phone at 650.622.0860 or email: coriannm (at) care2team (dot) com