Pine Knot Projects
custom consulting for local economies
We help good things get started
Pine Knot Projects works with place-based organizations to build community, forge stronger partnerships, and grow their impact.
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Visioning & Facilitation
Great organizations are inspired ways of enlivening people. Pine Knot Projects provides group facilitation, strategic planning, and consulting services to help build structures that elevate the boldest visions of your community.
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Story Telling
You know your story better than anyone. Through active and engaged listening, we help you tell it in clear and compelling ways to partners, funders, supporters, news outlets, and — sometimes most importantly — yourselves.
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Creative Projects & Capacity Building
Vision and story unite in grounded initiatives. We help you build the partnerships, activate the resources, and initiate the programs that expand a community’s sense of the possible.
Focus Areas
Arts & Architecture
Arts, architecture, and collective action enliven our communities and expand our sense of agency. We assist with mission/vision crafting, event organizing, fund development, and helping volunteers directly impact their built environment.
Current and past clients include:
- Virginia Street Arts Festival
- Wayne Theatre Performing Arts Center
- Redwing Roots Academy
- FTX Community Timber Frame Builds
Food, Farms & Local Economies
Crafting horizontal organizing structures to sustain volunteer governance, or writing grants to launch community kitchens, Pine Knot Projects helps build the infrastructure for place-based and participatory local economies.
Current and past clients include:
- Project GROWS
- Staunton Makerspace
- Boxerwood Nature Center
- Staunton Innovation Hub
- Town of New Market, August County, Waynesboro City, Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, and more
Transportation & Alternative Energy
From bicycles to solar panels, we assist clients who are bringing joy, sunshine, and freedom of movement to a lower-carbon economy.
Current and past clients include:
- Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition
- The JustPax Fund for gender, environmental, and economic justice
- Secure Futures
About
Meghan Williamson launched Pine Knot Projects in 2012 after serving as the Executive Director of the Staunton Creative Community Fund and the Economic Development Director for the City of Waynesboro, Virginia. Raised in and returning to rural Virginia, her goal was and remains to shift resources, attention, knowledge, and support to the place-based organizations and people who are reimagining how to build economies, communities, and ecologies that work for all.