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Joseph Mouzon, Executive Director
As Executive Director of Groundspring, Joseph is responsible for the overall leadership of Groundspring. He will oversee all sales, product and business development, operations, strategic planning, and financial management activities. He will further develop and promote Groundspring.org's services and strive to fulfill its mission to improve the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector.
Joseph has brought extensive leadership, management, marketing and nonprofit sector experience to Groundspring, as well as a tremendous depth of knowledge in technology. Joseph has held executive leadership positions for 12 years. Before coming to Groundspring, he served the San Francisco YMCA as its marketing leader where he was known as the "great idea guy," developing innovative marketing plans, social entrepreneurship opportunities and community relation events.
Prior to the San Francisco YMCA, he was CEO and co-founder of the Rhythm of Life Organization (ROLO) where he co-created BAYCAT, a San Francisco based technology center. He was also CEO and co-founder of Imhotech, Inc., a digital media delivery company. At Imhotech, Mouzon successfully raised venture capital funding and developed strategic partnerships with the nation's largest media and entertainment corporations. Mouzon has also held positions with NetNoir Online as vice president of sales and marketing and Working Assets Long Distance as director of business services. He began his career in finance and operations in the banking and retail sectors.
Mouzon is a former guest lecturer at Stanford Business School, a frequent speaker at technology conferences and has acted as a technology pundit for Tech TV. He holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from University of San Francisco.
Arch Alcantare, HTML/Web Designer
Arch builds and maintains the Custom DonateNow pages that replicate organizations' web sites, provides technical support for Custom DonateNow customers, and performs web design and development for Network for Good's web site and projects. He previously served as Lead Web Producer at RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network), after extensive consulting duty with for-profit clients including Discovercard, McDonald's, and Oprah.com.
Charles Ball, Senior Sales Associate
Direct Dial: 415.561.7824 Email: cball (at) groundspring.org
Charles joined Groundspring in April 2004 as Sales Associate. He has extensive experience providing Technical Education Counseling services to the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Through working with Clarity Technologies and later with CIBER Inc, Charles guided and assisted individual, non-profit, university, and corporate clients, in effectively meeting their technical training needs. In addition, while at CIBER Inc., Charles worked closely with clients in meeting short and long term technical staffing requirements. His clients included the University of California San Francisco, Williams-Sonoma, Kaiser Permanente, and Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
In his spare time, Charles has worked with his local neighborhood association on projects such as park beautification. He enjoys reading science fiction and hiking.
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Benjamin DeBonis, Sales Associate
Direct Dial: 415.561.7818 Email: bdebonis (at) groundspring.org
Benjamin DeBonis is a compassionate advocate, working hard to inspire and promote goodness and well being. He is a native Bay Area resident and a local sports and scholastic legend. He attended university at Brown in the friendly ocean state little Rhode Island and graduated in 2005 with a BA in History with a focus in Comparative studies of Revolutions. He is a globe trotter, a good doer, a zen Buddha jew Tao bodhisattva student and observer. He has a strong commitment to the tripod of love, work, and home interwoven by a deep spirituality. He practices and enjoys loving kindness, compassion, listening, reflecting, meditating, constructive dialogue, yoga, pilates, weight training, biking, running, swimming, hiking, climbing, cooking a mean meal, spending time with family and friends, reading, writing, and observing multi-various forms of entertainment, etc. you can't really box him in.
He is happy, joyfull and appreciative to help you in your pursuit to increase your online activity and efficiency in order to reach your mission!
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Cheryl Gipson, Nonprofit Services Director
Direct Dial: 415.561.7877 Email: cgipson (at) groundspring.org
As Nonprofit Services Director at Groundspring, Cheryl Gipson is responsible for managing and conducting workshops in online fund raising, communications and database management throughout the US. Cheryl has extensive experience in curriculum development, technical training, systems analysis, database administration and project management in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Her most recent professional stint has been as a fundraising database consultant serving mid - to large non-profits. Past clients include the Salvation Army, Make-a-Wish Foundation, California League of Conservation Voters, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. Cheryl is committed to the ideal and practice of compassionate service and volunteers at a variety of non-profit organizations in the Bay Area.
Dylan Gold, Customer Support Specialist
Direct Dial: 415.561.7842 Email: support (at) groundspring.org
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Dylan is the newest member to join the Groundspring support team as a Customer Support Specialist in November 2007. He comes with experience in assisting non-profits with developing their technological capabilities. A recent alumnus from San Francisco State, Dylan received a B.A. in International Relations with an emphasis in international development and South and Southeast Asian affairs in 2007. Outside the office, Dylan enjoys philosophy and the arts, computers and gadgets, and his lifelong support for the Oakland A's.
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Carrie Howard, Operations Manager
Direct Dial: 415.561.7837 Email: choward (at) groundspring.org
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Carrie joined the Groundspring team in September 2000. As Operations Manager, she is responsible for supervising Groundspring's Customer Support Team, updating the Groundspring web site, producing Groundspring's monthly enewsletter and assisting with the daily operations of the organization. Carrie has extensive experience in Web design and development, including her completion of the OpNet Web master training program and the SFSU CEL Information Design for the Web course.
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Andy Kalinowitsch, Senior Engineer
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Joined Groundspring in September 2001 to support and extend the technical infrastructure of Groundspring.org. His past experience includes database application design for AT&T and Hewlett-Packard, as well as numerous consulting engagements with a variety of for-profit and nonprofit clients, creating web-database applications, media-rich web sites, and content management systems.
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Priscilla Merle, Customer Support Specialist
Direct dial: 415.561.7842 Email: support (at) groundspring.org
Priscilla joined Groundspring in April 2006 as a member of the Customer Support Team. She is responsible for providing support to EmailNow and DonateNow customers. Her past experience working with nonprofits includes working with the Tides Network for over 6 years as the lead receptionist. While at Tides Network, her responsibilities included answering the switchboard, guest services and supporting the Tides Network staff. She enjoys board games, reading books and spending quality time with her family.
Karen Mundi, Customer Service Associate
Direct dial: 415.561.7842 Email: support (at) groundspring.org
Karen is responsible for providing daily customer support for our DonateNow and EmailNow tools. Karen has extensive experience in customer service, sales and in information technology. Her most recent position was a Technology Consultant with Sybase, Inc. She also worked with several non-profit and international development organizations, and was a project officer for the Canadian government in India on an overseas environmental project. Karen grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Information Technology from the Information Technology Institute in BC, Canada; a Masters in International Affairs from Ohio University; and a BA in International Relations from University of British Columbia. She also specialized in fundraising in the Nonprofit Management Program of Vancouver Community College.
Carmina Sicangco, Customer Support Specialist
Direct dial: 415.561.7842 Email: support (at) groundspring.org
Carmina joined the Groundspring team as Customer Support Specialist in March of 2007. She has a background working with several nonprofit agencies in San Francisco and Washington DC. She received a B.A. in History in 2004 from University of California Santa Barbara, where she studied Cold War conflicts and Early Modern English works. After college she worked for the International Rescue Committee of San Francisco, assisting refugees and political asylees find jobs and make homes in the Bay Area. She then went on to become a Membership Officer for the Commonwealth Club of California, the nation's oldest non-profit public affairs forum. In her free time, Carmina enjoys watching the San Francisco Giants and various outdoor activities.
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