Michael Williamson

Michael L. Williamson serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of Southeast Louisiana serving Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes. Under Williamson’s leadership as CEO, United Way developed a Blueprint for Prosperity, a plan which informs all of the organization’s work with a framework to eradicate poverty in Southeast Louisiana and a bold vision of equitable communities where all individuals are healthy, educated, and economically stable. Williamson is committed to a focus on community outcomes as the top strategy for increasing accountability and maintaining United Ways’ leadership in philanthropy. He has worked to strengthen United Way’s public-private partnerships at the local, state, and federal levels to create scalable community-building efforts while creating and leveraging the state’s only United Way advocacy program, which has been responsible for countless legislative advancements since its inception. Among his accomplishments, Williamson created United Way’s Million-Dollar Roundtable, whose initiation requires a gift of $1M. The group has grown from a single member to six distinguished individuals and couples who continue to lead United Way’s investments and help to inform the organization’s fundraising strategy Williamson has over 30 years of executive level nonprofit management experience, 26 of those years served in the United Way system. He has served as President of United Way of Aiken County, Aiken, SC, and Resource Development Director/Executive Director of ATC Foundation, Aiken Technical College. Aiken, SC.