• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Bernuth & WIlliamson Consulting

Bernuth & Williamson

  • Home
  • Clients
  • Team
  • Services
Sun shining over lake, evergreens and waterfall

Our Clients

B&W’s clients reflect the immense variety of the nonprofit sector: mission-driven nonprofits and international NGOs; universities, schools, and research institutions; advocacy groups and think tanks; quasi-governmental institutions and industry associations.

When B&W consultants sit down with a new client to talk about their challenges, they are drawing on experience that is both deep and broad. B&W has worked with some of the largest and best-known institutions in the sector but also with struggling start-ups; with development NGOs working around the world, but also with hyper-local groups in the US; and with effective, high-performing organizations but also with those in turmoil or transition. We have worked with governance and funding models of every stripe; with distributed and decentralized organizations; and with global federations and term-limited, single-purpose initiatives. These diverse engagements have given us an unusually rich cross-sectoral perspective, enabling B&W consulting teams to apply the lessons from a broad range of institutions to a client’s particular circumstances. 

World Wildlife Fund
Feeding America
Population Services International
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Trout Unlimited
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
USO

Education & Culture

  • Center for Public Leadership
  • Chautauqua Institution
  • Yale University School of Environment
  • AFS-USA
  • The Common Application
  • Duke U Energy Initiative
  • Churchill College, Cambridge

Conservation & Environment

  • World Wildlife Fund
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Trout Unlimited
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Trust for Public Land
  • Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Defenders of Wildlife

Policy & Think Tanks

  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board
  • United States Institute of Peace
  • Global Cyber Alliance
  • Campaign Legal Center
  • National Security Institute at George Mason University
  • Center for Reproductive Rights

 Global Development

  • Winrock International
  • IREX
  • CorpsAfrica
  • Women’s Refugee Commission
  • Asia Foundation
  • URC

Sustainability

  • Verra
  • Climate Justice Resilience Project
  • Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
  • Trees for the Future
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center

Foundations

  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Summit Foundation
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Research Corporation for Science Advancement
  • The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
    • Climate Change Initiative
    • Habitat Conservation Initiative

Social Services

  • Feeding America
  • Feed the Children
  • Legal Aid Society
  • SourceAmerica
  • NeighborWorks
  • Wholesome Wave
  • United Service Organizations (USO)

Health

  • Lupus Research Alliance
  • Parkinson’s Foundation
  • Population Services International (PSI)
  • Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (Duke University)
  • Go2 Foundation for Lung Cancer
  • PATH
  • DKT International
  • Village Reach

Associations

  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
  • National Defense Industrial Association
  • Association of University Presses
  • Land Trust Alliance
  • Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Comprehensive Client List
  • AFS-USA
  • Amazon Conservation
  • American Council on Education
  • American Farmland Trust
  • American Forest Foundation
  • American International Health Alliance (AIHA)
  • Anxiety and Depression Association of America
  • Archbold Biological Station
  • Association of University Presses
  • Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer
  • Campaign Legal Center
  • Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Center for Global Development
  • Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
  • Center for Public/Nonprofit Leadership
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Chautauqua Institution
  • Childhood Education International
  • Churchill College, Cambridge (UK)
  • Climate Change Initiative
  • Climate Justice Resilience Project
  • Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (Duke University)
  • CorpsAfrica
  • Counterpart International
  • Creative Associates International
  • Defenders of Wildlife
  • DKT International
  • DSFF
  • Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Earth Sciences Information Partnership
  • Encyclopedia of Life
  • Environmental Defense Fund
  • Environmental Law Institute
  • Exponent Philanthropy (formerly The Association of Small Foundations)
  • Federation of American Scientists
  • Feed the Children
  • Feeding America
  • Fisheries Sustainability and Leadership Forum
  • Forest Legality Alliance
  • Foundation for Physical Therapy
  • Georgetown Center for Internal Migration
  • Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
  • Global Cyber Alliance
  • Go2 Foundation for Lung Cancer
  • Habitat Conservation Initiative
  • Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • IMSA Fund for the Advancement of Education
  • Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)
  • InterAction
  • International Budget Partnership
  • International Center for Soil Fertility & Agricultural Development
  • International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council
  • International Masonry Institute
  • IntraHealth International
  • IREX
  • Land Trust Alliance
  • League of Conservation Voters
  • Legal Aid Society
  • Lupus Research Alliance
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
  • Management Sciences for Health
  • Marie Stopes International (UK)
  • Marine Biological Laboratory
  • Maryland Environmental Trust
  • McKinsey & Company
  • Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum)
  • National Defense Industrial Association
  • National Forest Foundation
  • National Parks and Conservation Association
  • National Security Institute at George Mason University
  • National Security Network
  • NeighborWorks
  • Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust
  • One Earth Future
  • Parkinson’s Foundation
  • PATH
  • Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
  • Population Action International
  • Project HOPE
  • PSI (Population Services International)
  • Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board
  • Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D)
  • Research Corporation for Science Advancement
  • Resources for the Future
  • Results for Development
  • Saint Joseph’s University
  • Seed Global Health
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • SourceAmerica
  • St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School
  • Stanford University Library/AAAS
  • Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
  • Summit Foundation
  • The American Association of Publishers
  • The Annenberg/CPB Project
  • The Asia Foundation
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • The Brick Company Foundation
  • The Brookings Institution
  • The Common Application
  • The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  • The Field Museum
  • The LOR Foundation
  • The Media Coalition
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • The Ocean Project
  • The Rand Corporation
  • The Source for Learning
  • The Trust for Public Land
  • The Urban Institute
  • Trout Unlimited
  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
  • United Service Organizations (USO)
  • United States Institute of Peace
  • URC
  • Utility and Transportation Contractors Association
  • VentureWell
  • Vermont College of Fine Arts
  • Verra
  • Village Reach
  • White Ribbon Alliance
  • Wholesome Wave
  • Wildlife Conservation Society
  • Winrock International
  • Women’s Refugee Commission
  • Woods Hole Research Center
  • World Ocean Council
  • World Resources Institute (WRI)
  • World Wildlife Fund
  • Yale University School of Environment
  • Zero-To-Three

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

Bernuth & WIlliamson Consulting

© 2025 · Bernuth & Williamson · All Rights Reserved · Privacy Policy

Douglas Meyer

Douglas Meyer

Douglas is a strategic communications specialist who focuses on helping organizations understand their positioning and engage their audiences. Since joining the firm in 2003, he has led a wide array of successful engagements with organizations, associations, and funders across sectors as diverse as environmental conservation, sustainable development, drug development, healthcare, education, and international relations. He takes particular pride in helping clients build collaborative relationships with those who matter most to their missions. Alongside his work with B&W, Douglas has developed additional expertise in the challenges that communities face with a changing climate, as well as the strategies that can be used for public engagement around these and other issues. Prior to his time with B&W, Douglas held various marketing and communications positions at The Nature Conservancy, where he directed outreach efforts for international programs and special initiatives, served as one of the organization’s spokespeople, and created a capacity building program for local partners. He also worked for many years in film and television production, and contributed stories as a freelance reporter for NPR.

Douglas holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and Spanish from Indiana University, and a master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is based in upstate New York, and in his spare time he enjoys spending time outdoors with family and friends, and trying to play the guitar.

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.