Co-Founder, Front Porch Forum, Inc.
Burlington, Vermont Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder and President at Front Porch Forum, Inc.
- Past
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- Executive Director at Northeast Rural Water Association
- VP Operations at ForestWorld.com
- Director of Environmental Programs at Public Technology, Inc.
- Senior Project Manager at Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Education
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- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Connections
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Michael Wood-Lewis’s Summary
Executive management professional and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience leading nonprofit and for-profit organizations and programs in a variety of fields. Success with start-up and turn-around situations. Unusual combination of technical, management and community sensibilities.
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Specialties:
Community management among many others.
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Experience
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Co-Founder and President
Front Porch Forum, Inc.
(Internet industry)
2006 — Present (3 years)
Front Porch Forum helps neighbors connect and foster community by hosting networks of online neighborhood forums. More than 11,000 households subscribe in our pilot network of Chittenden County, VT, including one-third of Burlington. http://frontporchforum.com
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Executive Director
Northeast Rural Water Association
(Environmental Services industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years)
Hands-on service provider to and trade association of New England drinking water and wastewater systems.
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VP Operations
ForestWorld.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)
1999 — 1999 (less than a year)
Forest products website featuring e-commerce, searchable databases, daily industry news, internet services and more. Attracted $1M initial funding during dot.com expansion period.
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Director of Environmental Programs
Public Technology, Inc.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Environmental Services industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)
National association of local governments bringing technology solutions to municipalities.
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Senior Project Manager
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)
1991 — 1996 (5 years)
National think tank focused on private and public decentralization and local control of resources.
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Education
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MBA , Business , 1989 — 1991
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS , Engineering , 1989 — 1991
Additional Information
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Websites:
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Interests:
Fostering community within neighborhoods, local online
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Groups:
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy: Technology Policy '08 -
Rural Telecommunications Congress
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Honors:
•Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy: Featured Front Porch Forum (FPF), 2008.
•PBS MediaShift: Named FPF 1 of 3 national "great experiments around local news," 2008.
•Case Foundation: Placed FPF 6th out of nearly 5,000 entrants for its Make It Your Own Awards, 2008.
•American Press Institute: Featured FPF in seminar, 2008.
•Rural Telecom Congress: Annual Champion Award, and People's Choice Award - Most Innovative, 2008.
•Personal Democracy Forum: Featured FPF, 2007.
•Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Sunlight Foundation: Featured FPF at conference, 2007.
•Orton Family Foundation and PlaceMatters: National Innovator in Place Award, 2007.
•National Night Out: Neighborhood watch award, 2007.
•Cottage Living Magazine: FPF flagship named a "top ten" U.S. neighborhood, 2006.
•Wall Street Journal, Morning Edition, many blogs, local media in pilot area, etc. covered FPF.
•A Vermont Father of the Year, 2005.
Michael Wood-Lewis’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- job inquiries
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