Ellen Bristol

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About Ellen Bristol

Nonprofit organizations have been hit hard by COVID-19, with massive cuts in charitable giving and resulting unemployment, while needs for their services skyrocket. Nonprofits who survive and thrive will master strategic fundraising, and become rigorous in managing performance. Bristol Strategy has pioneered powerful, replicatable consulting solutions to guide your organization into the uncertain future. We're different from most fundraising consulting firms. We ONLY work on the strategic foundation of your ability to generate revenue consistently and predictably. Once you know where you are today, using our analyses and assessments of team fundraising capacity and productivity, you'll set direction, understand which funding sources will work for you, and raise more money with less effort. We've been doing this work for twenty-five years, and have built powerful benchmarks, guidelines, tools, reporting methods and other aids to fundraising effectiveness that are easy to use with powerful impact.Company founder and president Ellen Bristol has published three books for nonprofits:Fundraising the SMART Way: Predictable, Consistent Income Growth for Your Charity, published by John Wiley & Sons; The Leaky Bucket: What's Wrong with Your Fundraising and How You Can Fix It, published by CharityChannel Press; and Success Planning for Nonprofits: Evidence-Based Strategic Planning, published by Tobsus Press.Bristol Strategy's featured solutions:Fundraising the SMART Way methodologyThe SMART Way Prospect ScorecardThe Donor Moves Model, the 21st century upgrade of Moves ManagementThe Leaky Bucket Assessment for Effective FundraisingThe SMART Way Virtual Development AuditSMART Way Donor Database Quantitative Analysis