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Lauren Bergquist

Post author By mturner
Post date October 5, 2016

Senior Associate

Lauren Bergquist has nearly 20 years of experience as a results-driven nonprofit professional specializing in comprehensive development and fundraising for healthcare and the arts sectors. She has worked for large and small organizations and is skilled at building teams of high performing frontline fundraisers, establishing processes, infrastructure and metrics to drive productivity and deliver results, and creating a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture committed to a common goal. Over the course of her career, Lauren has been responsible for meeting multi-million dollar fundraising goals, providing strategic direction to nonprofit management teams, and partnering with diverse stakeholders to build proactive and structured programs to support organizations in hospital and university healthcare foundations, as well as theatre and creative arts groups. Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and a Master of Arts degree from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Lauren’s core expertise is in Strategic and Campaign Development. She likewise has extensive experience in Annual Giving and Direct Marketing; Development Program Review and Expansion Strategies; Donor and Constituent Engagement; Fundraising Campaigns and Strategic Planning; International Fundraising; Major and Principal Gifts; Planned and Legacy Gifts; and Project Management.

Sector Experience: Healthcare, Arts & Culture

Lauren’s fundraising must have: A compelling and worthy mission, visionary and engaged leadership, empowered staff, donor-centric communications, and a strategic plan with clear deliverables and milestones, that requires and inspires collaboration and accountability. This is more than one “must have” but no one part or function of an organization can be successful without the other. Fundraising is a team sport!

Contact Lauren at: [email protected]

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Tanya Astolfo

Post author By mturner
Post date October 5, 2016

Associate

Tanya Astolfo is a seasoned information professional with over 20 years of experience with hospital foundations and consulting firms. Tanya’s career began in academic libraries and evolved into prospect research and prospect management. She has built and managed a research office and collaborated in the development of a prospect management system at a healthcare foundation. Tanya is an APRA International and APRA Canada member and volunteer. She earned a bachelor’s degree in History and Anthropology from St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Tanya’s core expertise is in Advancement Services. She also has extensive experience in prospect research and prospect management.

Sector Experience: Consulting, Hospital Foundations, Healthcare

Tanya’s fundraising must have: Strong prospect pipeline and informed fundraisers

Contact Tanya at: [email protected]

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Kristina Anastasopoulos

Post author By mturner
Post date October 5, 2016

Junior Associate

Kristina has close to 10 years of experience in marketing and communications, with a focus on creating inspiring content and collateral for print and digital platforms. She began her career working in professional sports and currently works for the fundraising arm of a university healthcare facility. Kristina earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Concordia University in Canada.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Kristina’s core expertise is in Donor and Constituent Engagement. She likewise has a wide experience leading marketing and communication projects, developing and aligning strategic messaging to specific audiences, and sharing engaging stories with the community at large.

Sector Experience: Hospital Foundations; Healthcare

Kristina ‘s fundraising must have: Compelling stories – they are how we connect with our families, friends, and community. Ask us how we can help with that.

Contact Kristina at: [email protected]

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Gillian Aitken

Post author By mturner
Post date September 21, 2016

Junior Associate

Gillian Aitken has over 5 years of experience in fundraising and strategic development. In this time, she has executed a wide range of fundraising initiatives from writing grant proposals and cultivating funding relationships with corporations and foundations, to managing major gift programs and direct mail campaigns. While most of her career has been spent fundraising for charities in Canada, she spent four months in Varanasi, India, preparing successful grant proposals for a local literacy charity. Gillian earned her bachelor’s degree in Global Politics from Carleton University.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Gillian’s core expertise is in Major and Principal Gifts. She also has extensive experience in Donor Engagement and Donor Journey; Direct Mail; Board Relations; Fundraising Events.

Sector Experience: Education; Youth Empowerment; International Development

Gillian’s fundraising must have: Internal donor strategy meetings.

Contact Gillian at: [email protected]

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Jason Bateman

Post author By mturner
Post date September 21, 2016

Associate

Jason Bateman has managed multiple development and fundraising teams for complex organizations. He spent twelve years at Vistage, the world’s leading CEO peer advisory organization, where he managed membership growth, board development, teams, operations, and financials, while setting all-time growth and member retention records. As Gen Next Managing Director, he focused on improving operations, stewardship, board development/cultivation, fundraising, and KPIs which resulted in the best 2 years of the organization’s 10-year history. At the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), he led the Development Operations teams where his team achieved the best Q2, Q3, and 3rd best year in ARI’s 35-year history, raising over $15M. ARI’s success was in direct correlation to implementing stronger pipeline cultivation, creation of a new membership model, implementing a new CRM, major donor growth and spearheading 6 successful quarterly $100K+ donor-day campaigns. He quickly grew these two nonprofit organizations and most recently has been acting as the interim Corporate Strategy Officer for the American Red Cross-Los Angeles where he supported research and helped create a new corporate pipeline of over 500 unapproached LA companies. He trained the Red Cross on new client acquisition strategies and helped with donor campaigns and engagement, leveraging his network of over 7,000 Sr. Executives to gain access to new donors, sponsors and funds raised. Jason earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Studio Arts from Hamilton College in New York.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Jason’s core expertise is in Donor and Constituent Engagement. He also has wide experience in Advancement Services, Fundraising Campaigns, Corporate Sponsorships and Alliances, and New Donor Acquisition.

Sector Experience: Education, Arts & Culture, International Development, Community Based Membership & Advocacy

Jason’s fundraising must have: A noble mission and a desire to be innovative. If you have a world-changing or life-changing impact and are willing to try new and innovative strategies, then let’s collaborate to make some game-changing moves to yield explosive growth and inspirational stewardship.

Contact Jason at: [email protected]

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Mark Banbury

Post author By mturner
Post date September 21, 2016

Senior Associate

With more than 19 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Mark Banbury’s career has spanned the globe and key philanthropic sectors. Some of his previous professional roles have included Global Chief Information Officer for Plan International (UK), Chief Information and Constituent Services Officer for Heart and Stroke Foundation (Canada) and the Director of Information Systems and New Media for SickKids Foundation (Canada). In these capacities, Mark has managed operational teams including IT, Human Resources, Communications, Operations, Facilities, and Purchasing/Warehousing/Logistics. Additionally, in 2011, he oversaw the global communications aspects of the launch of Plan International’s successful Because I Am A Girl Campaign and the UN International Day of the Girl Child. Throughout his career, Mark has consistently been on the senior management teams of large organizations where he both led and was a key participant in organizational strategic planning.

Mark graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Honours) in Radio and Television Arts and has taken graduate courses in the areas of organizational development, distance education, and media.

Fundraising Area of Expertise: Mark specializes in Advancement Services, Management and Governance, Data Analytics, Project Management, and Fundraising Technology.

Sector Experience: Mark has global experience in the health, education, international development, and membership/advocacy sectors, across several large organizations. His notable work has included the transformation of several large recurring giving programs through the use of applied technology and analytics. Mark has led over a half dozen major nonprofit CRM implementations/stabilizations/replacements across these various sectors.

Mark’s fundraising must have: Integrated systems that present a single source of truth are fundamental to supplying data and analytics that drive good decision making. Building on a good strategic plan and a robust governance structure, technology can make the difference between just sustaining an organization’s mission and transforming an organization into a sector leader.

Contact Mark at: [email protected]