Jayne Cravens

Jayne Cravens is an internationally-recognized consultant, researcher and trainer with a passion for the work of nonprofits, NGOs, and any cause-based initiative. Her work is focused on communications, volunteer and community engagement, and management for such initiatives.

Jayne co-authored The Last Virtual Volunteering Guidebook with Susan J. Ellis, published in 2004. She is also the author of various academic studies and is quoted in books by others regarding volunteer engagement and "travel for good."

Jayne is a pioneer regarding the research, promotion and practice of virtual volunteering, including remote staff, virtual teams, microvolunteering and crowdsourcing. She is a veteran manager of various local and international initiatives, including work for the United Nations. Jayne became active online in 1993, and she created one of the first web sites focused on helping to build the capacity of nonprofits to use the Internet. She has been interviewed for and quoted in articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, as well as for reports by CNN, Deutsche Well, the BBC, and various local radio stations, TV stations and blogs. Resources from her web site, coyotecommunications.com, are frequently cited in reports and articles by a variety of organizations, online and in-print.

Jayne received her BA in Journalism from Western Kentucky University and her MSc in Development Management from Open University (U.K.). A native of Kentucky, she lived in the USA until February 2001, when she moved to Germany, where she stayed through April 2009, except for six months in 2007, when she lived in Afghanistan. She has traveled to more than 35 countries, many of them by motorcycle.

Jayne is currently based in the USA, near Portland, Oregon (West Coast of USA/Pacific time zone), living with with her online volunteering but-not-at-all-virtual husband, Stefan, and their beloved Mexican shelter dog, Lucinda.