Chris Worman began his career in fundraising and communications for large American nonprofits. However, having spent most of his childhood in Botswana, he knew he wanted to work internationally and, in 2005, joined Peace Corps which landed him in Romania where he founded several social enterprises and Romania’s first community foundation. While building a national platform to support the development of future community foundations, Chris increasingly found himself needing access to technology and brought TechSoup into the country.

Over the next several years, Chris led TechSoup’s design of large, multi-national civic tech engagement programs; the organization’s marketing communications group; and, until October 2021 served as TechSoup’s Vice President for Alliances and Program Development.

During the pandemic Chris cofounded Connect Humanity, a fund for digital equity, to spur philanthropy’s engagement in digitalization and ensure communities around the world have access to the combination of knowledge and finance they need to come online on their own terms. With the fund going well and more than 100,000 people connected for the first time, the point that we can end the digital divide if philanthropy engages was made and Chris decided in 2024 to return to his passion working on community philanthropy and the enabling environment for civil society as Chief Global Strategy and Partnership Officer at GivingTuesday.

In this role, Chris leads GivingTuesday’s global teams and is supporting the community on its way to mobilizing a billion people. Chris has consulted for numerous large foundations, taught masters level programming at the University of Vienna School of Economics, and is a proud father.