The Pensacola CAN Story & Leadership Team

Pensacola Community Action Network received its nonprofit designation in late 2014 and began operating in early 2015 with the goal of providing financial and administrative support for individuals and small organizations working toward environmental and social goals. We help support a healthy and resilient community by helping outstanding environmental and social projects realize their overall missions.

PensacolaCAN is the engine that provides financial, developmental, and marketing support to our partners so they can make their projects fly! We provide project accountability by providing a donation platform that records, tracks, and provides receipts for donations and the administrative backend to ensure that all funds are used according to donor intent. We also help organizations attract and work with volunteers who are excited about the cause and looking for ways to give back.

Join us in our mission to provide fiscal sponsorship, accountability, and administrative support to those individuals and organizations working to improve their community.

Our Team

Christian Wagley
Executive Director/Vice President

Christian Wagley is principal of Sustainable Town Concepts, a consulting firm working under the premise that the most environmentally-beneficial thing we can do is to create healthy places for people. He is a certifying agent for the Florida Green Building Coalition and works with builders, architects, developers, and communities to create homes, buildings and landscapes that use less energy and water and are beautiful and durable. Christian has a long history of community work and advocacy in Pensacola, leading him to good relationships with many community leaders, elected officials, and citizens.

Jim Sparks
President/Secretary

Jim Sparks works at the intersection of academia, business, and community to create new opportunities for building a better world. His recent community activities include creating the annual Clean Energy Fest and “Future of Energy” Art Exhibition, and serving as the Digital Chair for Bike Pensacola. His consultancy, Onpace Local, provides early stage idea vetting, market research, business planning, and coalition building to serial entrepreneurs looking to create new social enterprises. He looks forward to bringing those skills to PensacolaCAN to create a robust infrastructure for providing administrative support for people doing good work in our community.

Tom Hutchings
Founding Board Member/Treasurer

Tom Hutchings, visionary and founder of PensacolaCAN, is a Gulf coast native and business entrepreneur. With degrees in Biology and Business Administration, Tom brings to PCAN and their partners 30 years of hands-on knowledge of what it takes to start and run successful businesses and non-profits. Having acted in the role of organizer, recipient, and donor for citizen led efforts, Tom has helped structure and position PCAN as a fiscal and administrative partner providing a platform from which community projects can operate and flourish while also providing assurances and accountability to donors.