William Senft Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Leading the SVDP efforts to finance, develop and manage affordable housing for families emerging from homelessness in Baltimore and managing real estate related matters for SVDP owned and leased facilities.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Managing governmental and private grants to fund the organization's efforts to ensure those impacted by poverty in Baltimore have the skills, resources, and opportunity to achieve their full potential.

Baltimore, Maryland

NonprofitWater.org- the mission is to improve integrated water resource management in the United States through a national nonprofit serving independent community water systems with regional solutions. Below is a recent endorsement of our work:“In researching my book, Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink (2019), I studied the safety, quality, and affordability of drinking water in the United States. What I assumed was healthy, safe and well managed turned out to not be so, with contaminants found nearly universally. To protect our health, it is essential that there be more stringent water treatment standards and a broad consolidation of water utilities, particularly smaller systems. “The nonprofit organization, NonprofitWater.org, seeks, among other solutions, to provide a relatively easy, politically friction-free, way for smaller systems to cooperate on construction of a new, standardized, at-scale water system that offers high-quality service on a wholesale basis to the participating towns and villages at a fraction of their current cost of production. “As a matter of equity, those in rural communities should have water that is no less healthy delivered by utilities no less well-managed than those living in wealthy, urban or suburban areas. The NonprofitWater plan addresses both water safety and quality concerns for these more-isolated communities. It also offers a way of consolidating utility water treatment assets, effectively unifying those systems and enabling them to better serve their communities. Importantly for many in rural communities, the plan does not demand that communities give up control of their local system. “With proper execution, the NonprofitWater plan would be a great step forward for water service in rural America.” Seth M. Siegel, author, Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink (2019)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

At The Water Center at the University of Pennsylvania: Analyzing governance and financing models for Municipal Integrated Water Management systems - drinking water, waste water and storm water. Focusing on the comparative pro's and con's of three basic models: municipally operated vs. privatized for-profit vs. nonprofit (501c12 coop or 501c3). Analysis to determine the attributes of community water systems most compatible with each of the three models - including, among other factors, geography, topology and hydrology - population density and trends - existing legacy systems and their operational soundness - community financial strength and debt load - political climate and municipal & regional leadership - opportunities for regional solutions - and access to expertise and technical support. Also analyzing financing sources and relative costs of capital for each of the three models.

Baltimore, Maryland

A career working with business owners in a variety of situations and industries including bankruptcy reorganizations, M&A, venture capital, managing IT projects, and entrepreneurial ventures of many types. At Baltimore Mediation, the firm that we founded in 1993, I work primarily with difficult conversations between business owners, between partners, between senior executives, and between management and employees (union and non-union) in organizations of many types - for profit, nonprofit, and governmental - and across many industries - financial, professional services, oil & gas, technology. Fostering improved decision making and better collaboration by focusing on quality dialogue, creative process, and breaking cycles of negative interaction between those involved. Consistently achieving high rates of resolution and high satisfaction ratings from parties on all sides of a dispute.

Master Of Science (Ms), Nonprofit Leadership, School Of Social Policy And Practice

Doctor Of Law (Jd), Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Commerce - Accounting