Rebecca Masisak, who has been CEO at TechSoup in San Francisco, California for 12 years and co-CEO for six years prior, is stepping into the role of executive chair and moving from her ex-officio board member role to an elected member of the TechSoup board.

Marnie Webb, a longtime leader within the organization, was appointed the new CEO.

Masisak has been a driving force at TechSoup for more than 23 years, guiding the organization through transformative growth and innovation. Under her leadership, TechSoup expanded its reach from the United States to more than 200 countries and territories, launched diverse new programs, and grew the budget from less than $6 million to $45 million.

Masisak’s tenure saw the creation of the TechSoup Marketplace, which now includes more than150 corporate partners, has delivered billions of dollars’ worth of technology resources to millions of civil society organizations worldwide, and is supported by a one-of-a-kind international network of capacity-building organizations.

Masisak’s vision extended TechSoup’s mission to include launching NGOsource 10 years ago. This vision also led to the expansion of Digital Activism programs from Fundacja TechSoup, the organization’s Warsaw hub, to support activists in closing civic spaces in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucuses, Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. She was selected four times, including this year, to The NonProfit Times’ Power & Influence Top 50 of sector leaders.

 Webb, a longtime TechSoup leader, has been part of the TechSoup leadership team, steering key projects and initiatives across all program areas over her tenure. She was previously co-CEO with Masisak and TechSoup’s founder, Daniel Ben-Horin.

Webb built the founding team of TechSoup’s NetSquared initiative and led a team of employees in launching and growing Caravan Studios, a subsidiary of TechSoup, which she led as CEO for the past decade.

“Marnie is dedicated to our mission, the communities and organizations we serve, and to the common cause we all hold dear — building a network of secure, resilient civil society organizations committed to creating a safer and more inclusive world,” said Masisak via a statement.

Webb emphasized that TechSoup’s future is squarely rooted in serving the millions of civil society organizations, worldwide, that do not have easy access to the digital solutions that will help them achieve their goals. “Under Rebecca’s leadership, we built a platform that supports individual civil society organizations at such a scale that we impact both those organizations and the sector as a whole,” Webb said via a statement. “It is our job now to carry that forward by leveraging that infrastructure to connect communities and ensure organizations can adopt and use technology in ways that are meaningful to them and those they serve.”

Webb highlighted the challenges and opportunities ahead. “The people in our sector work hard to support their communities, providing essential services like food, housing, job training, and more. It is our responsibility and privilege to serve them,” Webb said via a statement. Understanding how to support civil society organizations in a way that is affordable for them while the technology landscape continually evolves is a hard problem. And it is the hard problem we must run toward.”

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