Landon R. Williams
Landon has extensive experience implementing, managing, evaluating, and providing technical assistance to community revitalization, economic development, and small business programs, organizations, and projects. His expertise includes providing technical assistance to nonprofit and resident management corporations, housing authorities, and small businesses with start-up, organization development, business plans, housing development and financing, and record keeping. He is also experienced with grant writing, grant making (i.e., review, due diligence, evaluation, and recommendations), contract management and review, the administration of small business loan funds, and with managing complex community revitalization plans, programs and budgets.
Prior to coming to LDRF, Landon managed the FAITHS Initiative of the San Francisco Foundation. There, he spent five years managing an initiative that provides community, economic development and advocacy technical assistance and capacity building for a network of more than 650 faith-based and community organizations. He is a seasoned grantmaker with eight years of experience in philanthropy having served as a senior grantmaker on the San Francisco Foundation’s Health and Education grantmaking teams and as coordinator of its digital connects technical assistance and grant program, and coordinated its Katrina Relief Fund.
Before entering philanthropy, Landon was a consultant providing organizational and community economic development assistance to the nonprofit sector. Prior to that he served as an Assistant to the City Manager for the City of Berkeley, California where he managed the city’s revitalization work in South Berkeley, the city’s principle low-income neighborhood. He also has experience in the private sector as marketing director for a small energy management firm, Independent Power Corporation, in Oakland. His background includes starting and directing nonprofits, public policy analysis, grant making, and small business and housing development.
Before he and his wife Ora relocated to Baton Rouge, Landon was Vice Chair of the Sisters of St. Joseph?s Health Care Foundation Board of Directors in southern California and served on the board of directors of several other nonprofit organizations. He was also a member of the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council and the Alternatives to Detention Stake Holders Committee for the City and County of San Francisco.
Landon holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also earned his master’s degree in public policy from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School for Public Policy. Landon holds a California Community College instructor credential in economics, public services and administration.