“I love that Lisa’s strategic plans make it really easy to anchor a meaningful fundraising program in them. The strategic planning process she takes her clients through encourages innovation. She challenges her clients to do more than just what they have always done. And the strategic plans are practical. It’s not just about pie in the sky thinking. She takes the time to consider what it will really take to implement them. And for me, THAT is what makes it fun to go in and help an organization raise funds after she had done strategic planning or reimagining governance work with them. They have big, hairy audacious goals that can inspire donors to want to get involved.

And her writing – whether it’s a theory of change or a strategic plan or a fundraising case statement - is sophisticated while still easy to understand. To take the complexity that so many of her clients work in and distill it down to something easily accessible – well, that is a gift.”

- Cathy Mann, President, The Fundraising Lab