CLIENT STORIES
“We turn to Brenda for advice on ethics, donor relations, and countless other aspects of running our organization. Especially with complicated or difficult questions, we really value her guidance.”
-Marina LeGree, Founder & Executive Director, Ascend Athletics Afghanistan
“Working with Brenda has been an invaluable resource to our organization. Her experience and expertise has been critical to our development process. Brenda has spearheaded designing our internal systems and donor appreciation practices allowing us to exponentially expand our fundraising efforts.”
-Alonna Berry, Co-Founder & Board Chair, Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence
“Brenda is a grant writing wizard! She takes our suggestions and bullet points and translates them into smooth and inspiring prose to warm the hearts of foundations. She is very organized and gives me bite-sized task lists to help me stay in touch with important donors. She’s never missed a deadline. She is super clear with us about her timelines and capacity and has done a great job of researching additional grants that could be a good match for us and putting that all together in a grants calendar. Working with her has been an absolute pleasure and has increased our overall grant procurement.”
-Christine Ferris, Executive Director, Highline Academy
Brenda is an absolute top-notch nonprofit professional in every way. The knowledge, experience, ethics, professionalism, passion, and leadership that she brings to any team are hard to overstate. She has deep, applicable knowledge and well-rounded experience in philanthropy, organizational and strategic planning, management, program development and evaluation, research, writing, and fundraising, among many other skills. Her professional ethics, communication, leadership, and collaboration skills in particular are impeccable and integrated into everything that she does. Brenda is at the same time a learner and a leader, and simply a great person with which to work. She has a knack for bringing out the best in others, and for 'dreaming big' while at the same time focusing on the tangible and consistently moving the needle to meet organizational goals. Any organization would be lucky to work with Brenda!
-Mya Sapien, Goodwill Colorado, Colorado Youth For a Change
Working with Brenda has been an overwhelmingly positive experience - I can't imagine my job without her support. Brenda is organized, professional, and personable. She knows how to manage up, and has helped us to more than double our giving partnerships. I appreciate her ability to produce stellar narratives from short interviews or scattered thoughts of mine bulleted in an email. She will go above and beyond in every task and work product. She’s a gifted writer. I would highly recommend Brenda to any organization.
-Carol Bowar, Executive Director, Girls Athletic Leadership Schools Denver (GALS)
Brenda's energy, communication, attention to detail and strategic mind are a huge benefit to any client. Her expertise, combined with her ability to build strong and lasting relationships with colleagues and community partners, make her the complete package. She leads, guides and supports with the utmost professionalism and grace.
-Elissa Soden, Deputy Chief of Partnerships, GALS Inc.
Brenda is brilliant, compassionate, highly knowledgeable about all things 501c3, and a gifted writer and storyteller.
-Leigh Sullivan, Executive Director, Pepper’s Senior Dog Sanctuary
