Tech Underground

Eric Leland has spent the last 13 years working with progressive organizations tackling online and offline technology challenges. Eric started his technology work focused on sustainable internet strategies for grassroots human rights organizations internationally, working for a variety of organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights First and Witness. Eric served as the director of TechCommons at TechSoup.org, one of the nation's most comprehensive nonprofit technology assistance organizations. In this role, Eric and his team focus on helping nonprofits and technology assistance providers adopt and sustain healthy technology systems, and to improve their community engagement through technology.

As the founder and director of Leland Design, Eric focuses on strategic technology planning, website and database planning and development for progressive health and human services organizations, human rights and environmental advocacy groups both in the USA and internationally.Since Eric works with cash-strapped nonprofits, he considers the most fun part of his job finding advanced and cost-effective tools to solve their communications and information problems. He takes pride in helping nonprofits that have a great need for sophisticated yet low-cost technology systems, and no IT department to get the job done.

Eric is active in nonprofit and technology circles, serving on the Board for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network in San Francisco, and as a member of the Graphic Alliance, Craigslist Foundation leadership circle and the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network.