About Bill's Work
Bill is one of the leading Internet strategists from the national nonprofit community, with over 20 years of experience as an organizer, scientist, and manager working with public interest organizations, universities, and government. He is currently Chief Technology Officer of GetActive Software, a software company that provides online constituency relationship management services to nonprofit organizations. GetActive now has more than 750 clients, including The Humane Society of the United States, AFL-CIO, University of California, CARE, Oxfam America, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Realtors.
Prior to founding GetActive in 2000, Bill was Director of Internet Projects at Environmental Defense, where he created scorecard.org, the web's top-ranked site for localized environmental information, and actionnetwork.org, the web's first coalition hub for advocacy organizations. Bill was trained as an environmental scientist, and has served on the faculty at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. He also spent ten years working as an organizer and campaign strategist with community organizations like ACORN. Bill holds a BA from Yale University, an MS in Energy and Resources, and a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, England.