Your Mission is Our Mission. Our Team is Your Team.

Black Fox Philanthropy is a leading firm building capacity and fundraising strength for domestic nonprofits, international NGOs, and community changemakers around the world. Our mission is to help clients mobilize financial resources so they can solve complex problems on a global scale.

The Black Fox team has deep experience, knowledge, and focused expertise to help organizations escape the cycle of urgency in fundraising so they can execute their work in a powerful and sustainable way. We partner with clients to create and implement smart, effective fundraising strategies, serving as thought partners, strategic planners and an extension of client staff, when necessary. Yet we are more than smart paid consultants; we deeply value the important work being done by our clients, and strive to amplify their impact.

We have created effective strategies that attract significant and sustainable funding for NGOs operating around the globe.

Our commitment to you is to deliver on our Brand Promise | Expertise, Accountability, Integrity, and to Embody our Tag Line: Your Mission is Our Mission. Our Team is Your Team.

We are proud to be both woman-owned and a certified B Corporation.

Black Fox Philanthropy is an Equal Opportunity Firm and actively solicits applications from women and minorities. We are committed to fostering and maintaining a diverse work culture that respects the rights and dignity of each individual, without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender expression, height, weight, marital status, disability, medical condition, age, or veteran status.

Natalie Rekstad
Natalie RekstadFounder & CEO
SUPERPOWER: Leveraging a strategist’s mind and a philanthropist’s heart to help mobilize significant financial resources on a global scale.
Lisa Heinert
Lisa HeinertChief Operating Officer
SUPERPOWER: Seeing the potential in individuals and organizations, and collaborating alongside them to help maximize their impact.
Julie Cullings
Julie CullingsAdministrative Support
SUPERPOWER: Providing exceptional client care with your mission in mind.
Lindsay Lynch
Lindsay LynchBusiness Manager
SUPERPOWER: Creating systems to achieve an operationally sound organization, and continuing to grown upon and improve systems as companies evolve.
Sara Toulson
Sara ToulsonConsulting Program Manager
SUPERPOWER: Building the proverbial bus while it is full speed ahead.

Dedicated Contract Team

Black Fox Philanthropy brings together a dedicated, dynamic group of globally-focused fundraising experts who are strategically matched with clients to deliver on engagements with excellence.

Larissa Anstey
Larissa AnsteyResearch Specialist & Strategic Advisor
SUPERPOWER: Brilliant cultivator of relationships with a unique ability to hold space to listen, uncover, and discover.
Rachel Bellinger
Rachel BellingerCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Connector, storyteller, and visionary of potential.
Amy Bretherton
Amy BrethertonResearch Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Creative thinking and curiosity to conduct research that helps nonprofits make impactful change and address the world’s most pressing problems.
Jennifer Skala Bodio
Jennifer Skala BodioCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Harnessing the power of words to educate, inspire and build empathy.
Julia Chacur
Julia ChacurResearch & Advancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Comprehend an organization’s demands and find solutions, as challenging as it may seem.
Jesse Cowling
Jesse CowlingAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Ensuring that empathy and connection are the end goal of all fundraising efforts.
Laura Esterly
Laura EsterlyCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Creating communications that connect, inspire, and sustain long-term social change.
Abbie Hacker
Abbie HackerAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Developing individualized strategies to maximize success and leveraging leaders’ passion to build their confidence in fundraising.
Gretchen Lusby
Gretchen LusbyCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Gretchen has spent most of the last two decades in communications leadership delivering authentic storytelling and clear, powerful, and recognizable brands at organizations with strong missions to create sustainable change.
Christina Madden
Christina MaddenAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Staying focused on solutions in the face of challenges and crises.
Tefo Mosienyane
Tefo MosienyaneResearch Specialist
SUPERPOWER: My superpower is transforming complex data and research into actionable insights. I couple empathy with the multidisciplinary approach and research skills informed by my varied background to uncover valuable insights and contribute to evidence-based decision-making, making me an invaluable asset in driving positive change
Melizsa Mugyenyi
Melizsa MugyenyiAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Recognizing the multi-dimensional reality of sustainable growth – with fundraising one piece of the puzzle.
Rose Odengo
Rose OdengoSeasoned Communication Consultant
SUPERPOWER: Helping organizations build sustained strategic communications that grow revenue and expand organizational impact.
Wonu Owoade
Wonu Owoade Research Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Being a diligent researcher to identify the best partners for organisations who wish to create positive social change.
Eliot Highet Patty
Eliot Highet PattyResearch Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Creatively uncover strategies and strengthen synergies to design for social impact.
Lara Sepanski Pimentel
Lara Sepanski PimentelAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Using empathy to make and foster human connections that drive growth and impact in mission-driven organizations.
Tricia Puskar
Tricia Puskar Advancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Building relationships, partnerships, and strategies that drive innovation and create measurable impact for communities around the world.
Hamsini Ravi
Hamsini RaviCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Ability to distill and articulate the secret sauce of social purpose organizations.
Anna Rottenecker
Anna RotteneckerAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Supporting donors and non-profit organizations to join forces through breaking down complex organizational missions and strategies into programs of equal priority for both.
Harriet Spears
Harriet SpearsCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Harnessing equal parts empathy and strategy to create persuasive, impactful communications.
Heather Strobel
Heather StrobelSpecialist
SUPERPOWER: Garnering relationships and providing empathetic support for individuals and organizations to succeed.
Ashley Stokes, CFRE
Ashley Stokes, CFREAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Connector and strategist, uncovering opportunities for organizations dedicated to building a sustainable, just, and habitable world by developing the financial pathways to get there.
Natalie Robi Tingo
Natalie Robi TingoResearch Specialist
SUPERPOWER: A gifted researcher with first-rate analytical skills who will leverage first-hand experience and evidence to foster growth and impact in mission-driven organizations.
Rosie Urbanovich
Rosie UrbanovichCommunications Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Translating complex pieces of research and analysis into engaging and powerful stories for funders and supporters. 
Sarah VanderWood
Sarah VanderWoodAdvancement Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Finding creative ways to help funders accomplish their philanthropy goals and to connect them to an organization’s mission.
Elena Villanueva
Elena VillanuevaResearch Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Making sense of and deciphering patterns in large amounts of information to help organizations find the most aligned funder partnerships for their missions.
Holly Warner
Holly WarnerResearch Specialist
SUPERPOWER: Being adaptable and flexible in every situation to better connect with others.
Violet Sparks
Violet Sparks Director of Human Resources
SUPERPOWER: Trained in “nose work” (similar to airport dogs), Violet’s Superpower is finding the most talented Black Fox team members who have a high level of integrity, ferocity, intelligence, and a heart for the world.

CERTIFIED B CORPORATION

Our primary driver is global social impact, and becoming a B Corp is our public stake in the ground as a leader in redefining success in business. B Corporations are leaders of the global movement of people using business as a force for good. The “B” stands for Benefit, referring to the positive benefit that B Corporations have on their employees, customers, community and environment. Certified B Corporations meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. It’s like Fair Trade certification but for the whole business, not just a bag of coffee (or LEED certification, but not just for a building).

Our decision to become a Certified B Corporation came from our team’s dedication to acting with integrity and our dedication to changing the world through our business, not only through helping our nonprofit clients attract vital funding, but through our commitment to ensuring that every aspect of our business serves to make the world a better place for ourselves, the clients we support worldwide, and for generations to come. B the Change.


In 2019, we had the honor of being selected as one of B Lab’s Best for the World in the category of Changemaker.