“No money? No Mission!” Far too many nonprofits struggle to raise enough money to have true mission impact. We believe nonprofits improve their fundraising results by borrowing the most powerful disciplines of high-performing sales teams.
Let us show you how to do it without losing the charitable heart and philanthropic soul of your nonprofit.
Regardless of your size, sector, or income, we have a unique path and plan:
Founder Ellen Bristol launched Bristol Strategy in 1995, after a 20-year career selling mainframe computers for Fortune 50 companies. She soon fell in love with the nonprofit sector and found her mission: repurposing the disciplines of high-performing sales teams to benefit the nonprofit sector.
Her major innovations include the Leaky Bucket Fundraising Assessment, the only popular long-term study of fundraising-team productivity, and Fundraising the SMART Way™, the methodology for managing nonprofit income generation on the continuous improvement model.
Dr. Courtney Laddusaw, Ed.D., MNLM, is the Lead Consultant at Bristol Strategy Group. She joined Bristol Strategy Group in 2021. She is also the co-founder and instructor of the Donor Management Certificate Program at Pepperdine University. Dr. Laddusaw has over 13 years of experience working as a fundraising professional with small, emerging nonprofit organizations to large, international organizations. Her specialties include fundraising strategies, methods, and techniques; nonprofit analytics and reporting; and organizational leadership and management. Dr. Laddusaw has developed, planned, implemented, and managed major organizational giving fundraising campaigns, including capital, endowment, and project-specific campaigns. Additionally, she has trained and educated employees and volunteers on using progressive systems and applications, including constituent relationship management systems (CRMs), mass communication procedures, and donor relations management systems.
Dr. Laddusaw graduated from Pepperdine University with a Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership, the University of Southern California with a Master’s of Nonprofit Leadership and Management degree, and the University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s in Science degree and a Bachelor’s in Arts degree.
Dr. Laddusaw resides with her husband and two children in San Diego, CA. She loves to spend time with family and friends, be outdoors, attend BootCamp classes, cook the trendiest recipes, read parenting books, and listen to the hottest new Audiobooks.
