Rich Mintz

Professional

As Vice President, Strategy at Blue State Digital in New York, I provide executive sponsorship and senior program support to many of BSD’s most significant strategy engagements. I lead many of BSD’s large engagements in the academic, cultural, and healthcare markets, including institutional change management, annual fund, membership development, and stewardship programs.

Over my professional career in direct response fundraising and engagement programs, I’ve provided strategic direction and support to direct mail and Internet programs at a long list of nonprofit, political, and commercial organizations, including the DSCC and three Democratic Presidential campaigns; more than 50 nonprofits and issue advocacy organizations; and public companies including GE, Monsanto, and Schlumberger. I have particular experience helping mid-sized entrepreneurial programs grow quickly while maintaining their focus and operational strength.

I began my work in the field as a direct mail account executive at National Direct Marketing in Los Angeles almost 20 years ago. I was a co-founder of NetResponse, the Washington, DC-based Internet professional services firm that was acquired by iXL, Inc. in 1998; and of BusyTonight, a search engine technology company in New York. From 2001 to 2004, I owned and operated Peachtree Highway Books, a neighborhood bookstore with a national direct response program in Atlanta’s historic Candler Park neighborhood.

I hold an A.B. degree from Harvard College and live in lower Manhattan, in a former commercial building two blocks from the World Trade Center site.

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Personal

Aside from my interests in online organizing, Internet fundraising, and social media (which are personal as well as professional — I can’t wait for the day that our friends are all in an always-on chat room in our heads), I’m particularly interested in urbanism. I’m a former (and probably future) member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and am committed to responsible urbanization, to neighborhood development and revitalization, and to a healthy community life. I try to put both my money and my time where my mouth is, by contributing to and working on behalf of organizations (both national and local) that are advancing the cause of urban life in the United States.

I read pretty heavily in American history and sociology (along with the occasional bit of medieval European history) in my free time, and you’ll see me commenting on that here, too, as well as (in no particular priority order) New York City, transportation infrastructure, high culture, progressive politics, Mac hardware and software, gay and lesbian family life, exasperatingly rude people, and other topics of general interest.

If you know me in real life, you can send me an email at richmintz@richmintz.com. If you’d like to reach me in a professional context, I’d prefer that you use my work email address, rich@bluestatedigital.com. I’m also on Facebook and LinkedIn.