Hennepin County Commissioners
Commissioner Peter McLaughlin
Commissioner Gail Dorfman

Mayor of Minneapolis
Mayor R.T. Rybak

Minneapolis City Council Members
Council Member Robert Lilligren
Council Member Dan Niziolek
Council Member Dean Zimmermann
Council Member Gary Schiff

Minneapolis Park and
Recreation Board
Commissioner Marie Hauser

Abbott Northwestern Hospital
Denny DeNarvaez , President

Target Corp.
Nate Garvis , Vice President Government Affairs

Local Initiatives Support Corp.
Paul Williams , Senior Program Director

Midtown Greenway Coalition
Bob Corrick, President

Wells Fargo Bank
Kelly J. Gosz, President and District Manager, Twin Cities Banking

Xcel Energy
Dan Pfeiffer, Manager, Community and Local Government Relations

Lake Street Council

Julie Ingebretsen, Chair

Ryan Companies US, Inc.

Rick Collins, Vice President, Development

The Green Institute

Michael Krause, Executive Director

MCW Chair
Jim Campbell, Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo (retired)

Counsel
Louis Smith, Smith Parker, P.L.L.P.

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"Midtown Community Works brings a diverse group of institutional and community partners together to comprehensively address development along the Greenway. We at LISC believe it is an excellent tool and forum for not only learning about the variety of things happening along the Greenway and Lake Street, but also as a way of creating collective action in support of those activities." — Paul Williams
 

Background
Paul Williams was appointed Program Director of Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in September 1999. LISC is a community development intermediary providing a range of financial and technical assistance to affordable housing, economic development and other community building efforts in distressed inner city neighborhoods. Paul's experience includes extensive work in the philanthropic sector, where he spent close to 10 years developing several cutting-edge grant making initiatives at the Minneapolis and St. Paul Foundations and the United Way of the St. Paul Area. Paul also worked in nonprofit consulting and in state government and is active on numerous community boards. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and a Bachelors Degree in Government and Philosophy from St. John's University.