Chris is an entrepreneur and ground campaign consultant. He is an expert on open team building and campaign technology for distributed community organizing. Chris conducted his graduate thesis on digital systems for peer-to-peer fundraising and has since worked with over 100 political and not-for-profit ground campaigns in Canada and the United States.
Founder & CEO, Groundforce Digital – Ground Campaign Experts
www.groundforce.io
Groundforce Digital helps associations and movements build lean project teams that run innovative participant-driven campaigns to fuel growth. Consulting services include:
Chair, Open Democracy Project
www.opendemocracy.team, www.democracykit.org
The Open Democracy Project is a citizen-led community working to empower everyday citizens to drive change through political action. Its flagship project, DemocracyKit, shares expert advice and campaign technology with any campaign team running for municipal office and maintains an open online library to build on that knowledge from one election to the next.
Community Service & Education
Chris is the Loran Scholars Foundation Alumni Coordinator in the Greater Toronto Area. Chris served as a Board Director at the Loran Scholars Foundation from 2013 - 2015 and Ten Oaks Project from 2008 - 2010. He holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business (York University), a B.Sc. (Honours) and Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Waterloo, and is a Jostens Loran Scholar ('99).
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Guide for campaigns using NationBuilder. This guide outlines a process for entering data from a phone bank and...
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Introductory support resources to orient new team members to Trello, Google Drive, Slack, Google Forms and Zapier....
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Webinar presentation linkTopics covered in this clip:SlackTrelloWebinar Description:Working to launch a campaign? Looking to improve team productivity? Local campaign teams rely on...
Posted by Chris Cowperthwaite on 07/22/2017
Webinar presentation linkTopics covered in this clip:Google GroupsG Suite – Admin panel, Google DriveWebinar Description:Working to launch a campaign? Looking to improve team...
Posted by Chris Cowperthwaite on 07/22/2017
Webinar presentation linkTopics covered in this clip:Project Management Toolkit OrientationWebinar Description:Working to launch a campaign? Looking to improve team productivity? Local...
Posted by Chris Cowperthwaite on 07/22/2017
We want to hear your DemocracyXChange reflections and any other stories you want to share about civic campaigns.Steps to post your DemocracyXChange posts:1. Log...
Posted by Chris Cowperthwaite on 11/24/2017