Public Good — the network for civic engagement (media kit)

What is Public Good?

Public Good is a Benefit Corporation that accepts donations on behalf of all 1.1 million nationwide nonprofits. Trusted by the nation’s leading media partners, corporations and foundations, Public Good’s platform empowers people to Take Action when they have read about an issue and are motivated to make positive change in the world.

Who’s behind Public Good?

Jason Kunesh and Dan Ratner are startup veterans who helped found leading online marketplaces like Orbitz, The Point (later Groupon) and Sittercity.com. In 2011 they were asked to come join the technology leadership of President Obama’s reelection campaign and they spent the next eighteen months learning from the best organizers in the world and helping build the tools that underpinned the largest online fundraiser and volunteer mobilization in history.

After the campaign, they decided to combine these experiences and build publicgood.com — the first tool to really reflect how people think about charity: starting with a cause, going out to the community to find out who is doing good work, and ultimately connecting with a charity to make a contribution.

The senior team at Public Good has extensive collective experience building marketplaces including Groupon, Orbitz, Sittercity and Threadless.

Who’s behind Public Good? | Exec Team

Dan is the co-founder and the Executive Chairman of Public Good, co-author of two books on nanotechnology and a proud board member of Open Books, Chicago’s biggest literacy non-profit, Fulcrum Point, Chicago’s leading new music arts organization and OperaModa, an opera company dedicated to featuring young and emerging opera artists.

Previously, he was the Co-Director of Engineering at Obama for America during the 2012 cycle and CTO/COO of Sittercity.com, America’s first and largest service dedicated to finding quality childcare online. A serial entrepreneur, writer, impact investor, raconteur, boulevardier and man about town, he lives in Chicago with his lovely wife Genevieve Thiers and twin sons Leo and Ari.

Jason Kunesh is the CEO of Public Good Software, a for-purpose startup serving the public good through technology in Chicago, IL. Previously, he was Director of User Experience at Obama for America, a founder of Fuzzy Math, on the founding team of ThePoint (which grew up to be Groupon), an early designer at Orbitz, an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a bouncer at the Green Mill.

Jason has spoken at companies including Google, Intuit, and Microsoft and at conferences including UX Week, BAYCHI, Web Visions and more. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, BusinessWeek, TIME, Forbes, Crain’s, the Chicago Tribune and other publications.

He finds simple solutions for gnarly problems wherever people meet technology. Find him on the Internet @jdkunesh or jdkunesh.com or biking playing working parenting eating breathing dreaming living in Chicago, IL.

Melissa is the CRO and on the founding team of Public Good. She is a passionate and entrepreneurial business development leader specializing in bringing innovative channels to market and developing key strategic alliances both in the U.S. and internationally. Melissa has a proven track record of scaling ventures from conception to profitability across multiple industries including technology, direct marketing and financial services.

She has held business development roles at a variety of companies including Sittercity where she was the SVP of Business Development. There, she founded and built a corporate and government division within Sittercity.com providing Sittercity as a company benefit. This division was acquired by Bright Horizons Family Solution (BFAM), the world’s leader in employer-sponsored care in October 2013.

Chris is the CTO of Public Good. A former senior software engineer for Obama’s re-election campaign and for IBM, Chris has extensive experience leading teams in designing, building, and shipping quality software.