Patrick Schmitt

Raising $5 million per day for great nonprofits at FreeWill | Stanford MBA | Change.org & Obama alum

New York, New York, United States

About

I'm focused on creating scalable global impact by making it much easier for ordinary people to do tremendous good. I've been lucky enough to be on great teams that have helped to elect President Obama, pass health care reform, and create the world's largest social change platform at Change.org. I'm currently the co-CEO and co-founder of FreeWill, a social venture founded at Stanford University that has raised more than $10B for charities and nonprofits. (Also, we are hiring - a lot.)

Experience

  • Co-Founder at FreeWill
    Oct 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

    Work alongside a smart, kind, and tenacious team to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new planned gifts for the world's greatest nonprofit organizations.

  • VP, Marketing at Farmigo
    Sep 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Head of Innovation at Change.org
    2010 - Sep 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Change.org is the world's largest platform for social change, with more than 200 million users around the world. Served as Director of Global Campaigns and the first member of Change.org's Campaigns Team, helping to design the engagement strategy which has led to 10,000% user growth, thousands of victories, and tens of thousands of media hits. Subsequently have played a variety of senior roles, including leading revenue strategy, recruitment, email engagement, and other core priorities.

  • Director of Email Campaigns at Democratic National Committee
    Jun 2009 - Nov 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Served as primary online political writer for President Obama and Vice President Biden. Recruited and ran a ten-person email team which raised record amounts of small-dollar donations for a midterm cycle. Produced viral interactive video with 11M+ views.

  • Campaign Director at MoveOn.org
    2007 - 2009 · 2 yrs

    Designed and implemented online campaigns for the country's largest online progressive advocacy group. Led multi-channel campaigns around warrantless wiretapping, health care reform, and other issues.