Ellen Bristol, President of Bristol Strategy Group, is a nonprofit thought leader in fundraising effectiveness and nonprofit management optimization.
She has a passion for helping small to medium sized nonprofit organizations, NGO’s, and social enterprises build and grow fundraising capacity, adapting classic principles of the process-management discipline to this all-important strategic function.
She is known as a revolutionary disruptor in the nonprofit industry for bringing the science of productivity to the heart of charity and for her research on staff fundraising productivity, the Leaky Bucket Assessment for Effective Fundraising, which has been completed by 1,000+ nonprofit professionals and executives as of 2016, and her trademarked methodology Fundraising the SMART Way, an approach to fundraising based on the continuous improvement model.