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Bernuth & Williamson provides consulting services in the areas of strategy, change management, and organizational development to leading nonprofits, foundations, associations, and academic institutions around the world.

What We Do

NGOs and their funders come to Bernuth & Williamson for assistance in solving complex organizational challenges. Diverse in terms of size, strategy, and sector, our clients all share a common commitment to improving their organizational effectiveness and increasing their mission impact.

  • Organizational Strategy
  • Implementation & Change Management
  • Organizational Assessment
  • Governance & Board Development
  • Brand Strengthening
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Executive Coaching
  • Strategic Communications
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World Wildlife Fund
Feeding America
Population Services International
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Trout Unlimited
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
USO

Washington

2000 P Street NW, Suite 730
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-375-7768
moc.gnitlusnochtunreb@tcatnoc

Princeton

13 Campbelton Circle
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: 609-688-8388
moc.gnitlusnochtunreb@tcatnoc

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Debbie Gordon Feinberg

Debbie Feinberg

Debbie Feinberg has over 25 years of experience in financial, human resources, and business processes. She started her career as an auditor with Deloitte & Touche LLP. She then moved to Arthur Andersen LLP in the role of Operations Manager for the Risk Consulting practices in the Mid-Atlantic region. She has worked as a consultant focusing on human resources, strategy, and implementation projects, including serving as interim COO/CFO for several organizations. Debbie was the VP of Finance for a large DC area arts institution with a $30 million dollar annual budget and most recently served as CFO of Parabilis, a $90 million private lending company which specializes in providing working capital to government contractors.

Debbie earned her B.S. in Accounting from the University of Maryland Honors Program. She has held both a CPA license and Professional Human Resource (PHR) certification. She serves on the DC board of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

David Williamson

David Williamson, Managing Director

David has been Managing Director of Bernuth & Williamson since 2002, working with leading nonprofits, foundations, and academic institutions around the world on issues of organizational strategy and effectiveness.  In 2000, he was a visiting Senior Fellow in the philanthropy program at the Aspen Institute; earlier he held fellowships at the Salzburg Seminar in Austria and the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. Based in Washington, DC, he has taught nonprofit management at Georgetown University since 2001, training hundreds of nonprofit leaders in the U.S. and abroad through the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. His research on building nonprofit capacity and measuring performance in nonprofits, which appeared in The McKinsey Quarterly, has been widely cited in the academic literature. Before joining B&W, he spent many years in senior management positions at the worldwide office of The Nature Conservancy, including terms as Director of Communications and Vice President for Marketing. His redesign of Nature Conservancy magazine won multiple awards from Folio. He was also the lead author of three organization-wide strategic plans and helped design two capital campaigns. He has served in leadership positions on the boards of many nonprofits and other philanthropic entities. Educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University.