Larry Biddle

Larry Biddle is Principal of PlanningWorks and has provided strategy, communications and development guidance to nonprofits and political organizations for more than 35 years. As a leading national fundraiser, he has raised more than $350 million for nonprofit organizations and $31 million for political candidates. He founded PlanningWorks in 1997, and has created client-centered Internet growth plans for organizations such as Common Good Ventures, International Women’s Health Council, PDC Affordable Housing, Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Woodcock Foundation.

Biddle was deemed “the arbiter of the new hotness” in a September 2004 "Wired" magazine article about his political Internet work with Dean for America. He served as deputy national finance director for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, where he worked extensively in the areas of Internet giving, direct mail and telemarketing. Biddle is a contributing author to the new book about the Dean campaign to be available in September, 2007 – Mousepads, Shoe Leather and Hope. Drawing on best practices and cutting-edge methods from business marketing, nonprofit advocacy and political communications, PlanningWorks has been working for almost two years on a model communications project using new technology called BeHeard! commissioned by The Woodcock Foundation for a selected grantees helping them realize their potential to expand and engage their constituencies – particularly building robust communities of interest that can be mobilized for action.

Biddle has also served as the finance director for U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz in her Democratic primary campaign for U.S. Senate, finance director for Maine’s U.S. Senate candidate Chellie Pingree (now president of Common Cause) and deputy campaign manager for Betty Castor for US Senate, Florida. Biddle was the Internet advisor for the Alex Sink campaign for Florida’s Chief Financial Officer – the only statewide Democratic to win election in 2006.

He has a degree in organizational management from the University of Delaware and is an E-Commerce Fellow at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his partner of 15 years in St. Petersburg, Florida.