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To each of our clients, we bring a team with best practice models of fundraising, relevant new ideas, firsthand experience, and a fresh perspective. Our relationships with executive leaders, chief development officers, and Board members further inform our knowledge around what opportunities and tactics create the strongest, most sustainable philanthropic practice. We learn every day and we apply that learning to you.
what clients are saying
Yellow Barn
Ellen and her team revitalized our fundraising. We had been stuck and she renewed enthusiasm from our donors and generated new partnerships. isabelpratt is the best. They are part of our team forever.
Catherine Stephen
Executive Director
Lesley Ellis School
We have had fundraising and enrollment growth beyond our wildest imaginations. Our results have been dramatic results. Our thirty year old school increased fundraising by five hundred percent. Since enrollment is also sales by any other name we contracted with isabelpratt for enrollment support too. The proof is in the numbers. We increased our enrollment by thirty percent and our retention is tremendous now. isablepratt is our secret weapon. Unparalleled leadership.
Deanne Benson
Head of School
Middlebridge School
I pulled over to the side of the road to call Ellen when another head of school told me she’d solved his fundraising challenges. We’ve been together for seven years now and the rest is history. She has deep roots in our community and is a true partner in every way.
John Kaufman
Head of School
Crossroads School
Partnering with isabelpratt changed the world at our small school. “Gotta get a gym” had been a refrain for years. Ellen turned it into a slogan and made it a reality.
Billy Handmaker
Head of School
Norwalk Hospital
isabelpratt helped us realize our capital campaign goals long after we had stalled and faltered. They trained our board, energized our donors, and were a full service boots on the ground partner. These people are highly skilled accomplished professionals. You cannot go wrong choosing this firm.
Peter Cordeau
CEO
Zoo Ecomuseum
Ellen said we could pay her in Lynx baby visits and it feels like that’s what we did. Under her leadership we have raised millions of dollars for pennies on the dollar. This is the best investment the zoo has ever made.
David Rodrigue
Executive Director
Greenwood School
isabelpratt is a proven model, and especially so for small schools like ours who don’t have the infrastructure or the economies of scale to have a large in house awesome development department– it’s almost a universal challenge. The last nine years of fundraising have proven to be the most successful in the school’s 37 year history, and I believe contracting with Ellen is one of the most important and impactful decisions I made in my 10 year tenure as Headmaster
Stewart Miller
Head of School
Woodhall School
Ellen Stimson and her colleagues are great teachers and good partners. I give them my highest recommendation.
Matt Woodhall
Head of School
Landmark College
Ellen and her team swooped in and brought this venerable old college into the modern era with her sophisticated take on fundraising best practices. We raised so much money and actually had fun doing it. That’s not something I ever thought I would say.
Lynda Katz
President
Cambridge Montessori School
Ellen and her team are ideal development partners. They do the work, take no credit, and make everyone else look good. These folks are outstanding.
Ingrid Tucker
Head of School
United Legal Services
The women who come to us are in desperate need. Ellen and Todd and their team helped us create a donor base of people who care about women and children. They have increased our ability to serve our clients tenfold. We are ever grateful. Todd would be an asset to any organization.
Maddie Pierce
Executive Director