Darian Rodriguez Heyman is the Editor of Nonprofit Management 101 and co-founder of this website and our blog, Advancing Social Impact. As executive director of Craigslist Foundation (2004–2008), Darian worked to educate, inspire, and connect emerging nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs. He helped conceive its flagship program, Nonprofit Boot Camp, which grew into the largest nonprofit gathering in San Francisco Bay Area history, and launched a website that connected millions of leaders to helpful resources, and to each other. While there, he started and led several coalitions, including the Environmental Nonprofit Network and the Next Generation Leadership Forum. At the same time, he was appointed as a Commissioner of the San Francisco Department of the Environment by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

In addition to consulting for a variety of nonprofit organizations on all aspects of nonprofit management, especially board development and fundraising, Darian currently works as a managing partner at Code Green Agency, an environmental consultancy providing strategy, messaging, and fundraising support to nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies. He is a frequent public speaker, keynoting and facilitating events around the world, and recently led several civil society consultations for the United Nations Environment Programme. Darian also teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he taught “The Economics of Philanthropy” and now provides workshops on fundraising and nonprofit career planning.

In his past career as a dot-com entrepreneur, Darian co-founded and later sold the digital advertising agency Beyond Interactive to Grey Global Group, now WPP. He’s bridging this world to his social change work by preparing to launch a nationwide Social Media for Nonprofits conference series. He is passionate about supporting young leaders, integrating interactivity into educational environments, and helping noble efforts connect vision to action.