Board Members & Leadership of Coyote Helps

Coyote Helps is a nonprofit in the making (501 c 3 status pending). Coyote Helps is run entirely by volunteers - unpaid staff. The founder is a volunteer herself and receives no monetary payment for her time in managing the efforts of this nonprofit.  

New members of the leadership team are recruited from the ranks of CoyoteHelps volunteers.

Coyote Helps needs to always have at least three board members. Board members receive no financial compensation and, unlike with most nonprofits, Coyote Helps board members are NOT required to donate financially to the organization.

Board members are asked to read a quarterly update and react to it, if they have a reaction to such. Board members will make most decisions, if decisions are required, via a private Reddit online group and/or via email. Board members will meet by video chat only if necessary. The draft Coyote Helps Bylaws are here.

Board members / Leadership team:

Jayne Cravens.
Jayne is the Founder and President of the Board of Directors for Coyote Helps. Like all board members, her role is as a volunteer - unpaid. Jayne has been online since 1993. She was one of the first moderators of the soc.org.nonprofit USENET newsgroup and was one of the first people to encourage nonprofits to leverage the Internet for community outreach, awareness-building, program promotion, fundraising and, of course, virtual volunteering. Professionally, she is a veteran manager of various local and international initiatives, including United Nations programs, and has worked in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Germany, Egypt, Serbia and Poland, among other countries, in addition to the USA. For more than a decade she tracked practices to prevent folklore, fake news and rumors from derailing humanitarian aid and development activities. She has been quoted in articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, as well as for reports by CNN, Deutsche Well, and the BBC. She was the Fall 2015 Duvall Leader in Residence at the University of Kentucky’s Center for Leadership Development and has guest lectured at classes at Portland State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work, and St. Edward's University. Jayne was a co-winner of the 2003 Dewey Winburne Community Service Award. She has volunteered for a variety of nonprofits, including Habitat for Humanity International, BPeace,, the Pacific Refugee Support Group, the American Red Cross, the Girl Scouts of the USA, and Wikipedia. Jayne received her BA in Journalism from Western Kentucky University and her Master's degree in Development Management from Open University in the U.K. A native of Kentucky, she lived in Germany for eight years and has visited more than 35 countries, some of them by motorcycle. She is based near Portland, Oregon in the USA. Here is Jayne's LinkedIn profile.

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