Darian Rodriguez Heyman

GenderSmart Investing Summit

Co-Founder

LinkedIn GenderSmart Investing Summit Numi Foundation

Darian Rodriguez Heyman is an accomplished fundraiser, social entrepreneur, and best-selling author. After co-founding and selling one of the first digital ad agencies, Beyond Interactive, and helping grow the company to almost 400 employees across more than 20 countries and almost $500M in annual billings, his work “helping people help” started during his five-year tenure as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation. There he launched their Nonprofit Boot Camp and grew it to the largest nonprofit gathering in history in only one year. That led to his two best-selling books, Nonprofit Management 101 (now in 2nd ed.) and Nonprofit Fundraising 101 (both published via Wiley & Sons), as well as his work as Editor-in-chief at Blue Avocado, the popular online magazine for nonprofits. Heyman since co-founded several other social impact conference series, including Social Media for Nonprofits, the world’s only conference series dedicated to social media for social good, and Nonprofit Fundraising Masters, as well as the GenderSmart Investing Summit. Heyman is a part-time ED at Numi Foundation and an in-demand fundraising consultant and a frequent keynote speaker at social impact events around the globe. He also frequently works with environmental and green economy organizations, building on his tenure as a Commissioner for the Environment for the City & County of San Francisco, where he helped pass the largest solar rebate program in the country, and Sir Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, plus frequent work with the United Nations Environment Programme. Heyman also believes in the transformative power of music and helped produce the annual Power to the Peaceful festival in San Francisco, a free concert for peace and social justice that drew crowds of over 80,000, where he produced the DJ tent and performed regularly as DJ Hey Man!.