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How 1% for the Planet CEO Kate Williams Drives Corporate Giving Amid Nonprofit Crunch
At a moment of political pullback and nonprofit strain, Kate Williams is scaling Patagonia’s 1% for the Planet toward $1 billion in donations.
Shortly after graduating high school, Kate Williams embarked on a 30-day expedition in Wyoming’s Wind River Range mountains. The trip, already made difficult by a particularly snowy spring, became even more challenging when Williams’ instructor broke his leg. Amid the subsequent crisis, the then-18-year-old Williams was challenged to lead the group’s evacuation—a moment that solidified her interest in all things leadership, organization and wilderness. “I decided in that moment that was what I wanted to do with my life,” she told Observer. Williams, who is now 59, has since parlayed those ambitions into heading up 1% for the Planet, a Vermont-based network that encourages corporations to donate at least 1 percent of their revenue to environmental nonprofits around the globe.
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