Jonah Wittkamper
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Jonah Wittkamper is a biologist,[1] entrepreneur,[2] and activist. He is the Co-Founder and President of the Nexus Global Youth Summit, a movement to bridge communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship.[3] He is also the Founder of the Healthy Democracy Coalition, a network of philanthropists dedicated to bridging political divides. He works to unite young social and philanthropic leaders to influence the public sector, including the United Nations,[4][5][6][7] the White House[8][9] and the United States Congress.[10][11][12] Earlier in his career, he co-founded the Global Youth Action Network, a global association of youth organizations that merged with TakingITGlobal and grew to become one of the largest communities of young social change leaders on the internet.[13] In 2007 he joined Distributive Networks and helped to build the text messaging technology of the 2008 Obama campaign[14] and in 2015 he served as an advisor to the Council on Foundations' Evolution of Philanthropy Initiative.[15] He has worked as the United States Director of Search for Common Ground[16] and is the founder and owner of EZinTouch.com, a contact management platform. He is an alumnus of Williams College and Camp Rising Sun.
Jonah Wittkamper is a grandson of Will Wittkamper, a former steward of Koinonia Farm, the inter-racial Christian intentional community in Americus, Georgia, that inspired the creation of Habitat for Humanity.[17] The Wittkamper family is profiled in the book Class of 65.[18]
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- ^ "UN Galvanizes Philanthropy". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Millennials Transform Charitable Giving Into Philanthropic Action". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Young Philanthropists And Social Entrepreneurs From 70 Countries Mobilize At The U.N. To Solve Global Challenges". Forbes.com. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Nexus: Minds and Money Meet, Pushing the World Forward". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Including the young and rich - White House hosts 'Next Generation'". New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "At Nexus, a Peek Into the Minds of Young, Wealthy Donors". Chronicle of Philanthropy. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ "Engaging Disaffected Millennials". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ "When Will We See A Millennial Congress?". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ "Millennials Bring a Bipartisan Message to Congress". Non-Profit Quarterly. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
- ^ Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anothy D. (2006). Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, p. 50. Penguin Books Ltd., London. ISBN 1-59184-138-0.
- ^ "Startups get a lift from election '08". Fortune. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "Evolution of American Philanthropy". Council on Foundations. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Nexus Summit Inspires Next Generation of Billionaires to Give Back". Forbes.com.
- ^ "Growing Up at Koinonia". Christianity Today.
- ^ "How a white student stood by his black classmates during the Civil Rights era". Washington Post.