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williamsworks

williamsworks is an American consulting firm based in Missoula, Montana.

History

williamsworks was founded in 2003 by Whitney Williams.[1][2] The firm's second client was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[3]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Whitney Williams Founder and CEO Hillary Clinton, Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI), Clinton Global Initiative, TED Conferences, Glacier National Park Conservancy, Marguerite Casey Foundation, City Year Seattle/King County, New Futures, Council on Foreign Relations[3:1][4][5][6]
Maya Winkelstein Associate Director (former)[7] Open Road Alliance, Council on Foundations, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Clinton Global Initiative, PEAK Grantmaking, Global Press Institute, GrantAdvisor, World Economic Forum
Colleen Martin Political Director (2019-2021)[8] Progressive Turnout Project, Stop Republicans, A Safe Place, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)

Clients

Clients of williamsworks include:[9][10][11][12]

  • Aegis Trust
  • African Agricultural Technology Foundation
  • Alaska Wilderness League
  • Ben Affleck
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Clinton Foundation
  • Comic Relief
  • Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)
  • Eastern Congo Initiative
  • Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)
  • Gatorade
  • Glamour
  • Google.org
  • Howard Schultz[13]
  • Jennifer Garner
  • K'naan
  • Marguerite Casey Foundation
  • Mark Torrance Foundation
  • Nicholas Dirks
  • Nike Foundation
  • ONE Campaign
  • Open Road Alliance
  • Pearl Jam
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • (RED)
  • Save the Children
  • Schultz Family Foundation
  • Seattle International Foundation
  • Starkey Foundation
  • Starkey Hearing Technologies
  • Theo Chocolate
  • Thorn
  • TOMS Shoes
  • Tostan
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Vanity Fair
  • Water Advocates
  • Water.org
  • The White House Project
  • Wikimedia Foundation[2:1]
  • A Women’s Nation

  1. Whinney, J., & Williams, W. (2013, November 11). Guest: Seattle, Congo and the chocolate trade. The Seattle Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203130810/http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2022239517_joewhinneywhitneywilliamsopedcongo12xml.html ↩︎

  2. Forsyth, P. (2017, February 8). Wikimedia Foundation strategy consultant Williamsworks also brings background in crisis reputation… The Signpost; Medium. https://web.archive.org/web/20230808201543/https://medium.com/wikisignpost/wikimedia-foundation-strategy-consultant-williamsworks-also-brings-background-in-crisis-reputation-d58648cd1a50 ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. Rapkin, M. (2013, November 11). When Ben Affleck Wants to Change the World, He Calls This Woman. ELLE. https://web.archive.org/web/20221209035154/https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a12614/whitney-williams-profile/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. Whitney Williams. Williamsworks. Retrieved February 25, 2010, from http://archive.today/2010.02.25-055954/http://williamsworks.com/team/whitney-williams ↩︎

  5. Whitney Williams. Williamsworks. Retrieved August 29, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130829012617/http://williamsworks.com/team/whitney-williams ↩︎

  6. Membership Roster. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved July 31, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230731192134/https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster ↩︎

  7. Maya Winkelstein - Agenda Contributor. World Economic Forum. Retrieved August 9, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230809013105/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/maya-winkelstein ↩︎

  8. Experience | Colleen Martin. LinkedIn. Retrieved August 7, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.08.07-212854/https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-martin-15895b33/details/experience/ ↩︎

  9. Home. Williamsworks. Retrieved August 8, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230808204115/https://www.williamsworks.com/ ↩︎

  10. Our Clients. Williamsworks. Retrieved February 7, 2014, from https://web.archive.org/web/20140207225757/http://williamsworks.com/our-clients/ ↩︎

  11. Our Clients. Williamsworks. Retrieved February 6, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150206001432/http://williamsworks.com/our-clients/ ↩︎

  12. Our Clients. Williamsworks. Retrieved October 9, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.10.09-223332/https://www.williamsworks.com/our-clients ↩︎

  13. Birkenbuel, R. (2014, September 21). Carrying on family legacy: Whitney Williams goes global. Montana Standard. http://archive.today/2015.01.04-060535/http://mtstandard.com/special-section/local/carrying-on-family-legacy-whitney-williams-goes-global/article_77c1da58-d82a-5bc5-a2fe-94d43bd73a96.html ↩︎