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MEET THE LSC TEAM!

Passion. Experience. Creativity.

Lindsay Simonds Consulting

PRINCIPAL AND MANAGING DIRECTOR

Lindsay Simonds

Lindsay Simonds Consulting (LSC) is a boutique firm of senior-level fundraising professionals offering strategic fundraising and management consulting. With over four decades of combined experience partnering with organizations for transformational change, LSC provides strategic onboarding, board and staff training, interim leadership management, campaign management, and more. Team members have served as consultants and frontline fundraisers, as board members and as donors, as volunteers and as professional coaches. We have fewer clients at a time and offer hands-on management and deeply thoughtful recommendations that are tailored specifically to each unique organization. We are distinguished in this way.

Having raised over $3 billion philanthropic dollars, LSC is an integral lead in expanding and deepening donor investments and major gifts campaigns. LSC is a solutions-based firm calling on metrics-driven analysis, conscious communication and natural creativity. With an eye for structures of influence, donor engagement, project management, compelling storytelling, brand evangelism and productivity, LSC brings all clients a comprehensive fundraising expertise and campaign management.

Lindsay Simonds (she/her) is a senior nonprofit fundraising and management professional with over a dozen years of experience partnering with organizations across the country for transformational change. Having raised over $1 billion philanthropic dollars cumulatively and collaboratively, she is an integral lead in expanding and deepening donor investments and major gifts campaigns. Lindsay is a solutions-based thinker who calls on metrics-driven analysis, conscious communication, and instinctual creativity to bring her clients a comprehensive fundraising expertise. 

Lindsay founded LSC in 2017 after her role as Vice President at CCS, a large, global fundraising consulting and management firm. Lindsay and CCS continue to partner on projects today. She and the team as LSC offer a variety of professional services to nonprofit organizations as fundraising specialists and department generalists ranging from capital campaign management, interim leadership, recruiting and hiring, executive coaching (junior and senior level fundraisers), and staff and board training.

Lindsay is a local Coloradan who graduated from Kent Denver and received her BA in International Studies and Business Administration at the University of Denver. She is on the executive committee and corporate committee of the board at BUILD.org, which centers on experiential learning through entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth in under-resourced communities, locally and nationally. During her tenure at CCS, Lindsay was the head of internal continued learning and training. She also served as a faculty member and trainer for the Sanford Institute on Philanthropy at JFK University with a focus on annual strategic fundraising planning, major individual gifts, campaign readiness, moves management, making the ask, and cause-based fundraising.

You can connect with Lindsay at: Lindsay@LindsaySimondsConsulting.com or on LinkedIn.

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Jeff Hauk

Jeff Hauk has been a senior development practitioner for over 25 years. With an eye toward marrying inspired gift opportunities with donors’ philanthropic passions, he has developed meaningful partnerships between donors and several of the nation’s most prestigious organizations, including: The Trust for Public Land; National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine; CARE USA, University of California San Francisco; and The Johns Hopkins University. Throughout his career, Jeff has personally solicited and secured over $50 million in philanthropic support, and has been an integral member of complex teams that have raised over $2 billion.

Jeff has led small and large teams, alike, including geographically distributed teams. He has managed multi-million-dollar budgets, and served on the leadership team of several capital and comprehensive campaigns throughout his career. His experience transcends the entire donor experience, from annual giving to major gifts, to planned giving, as well as corporate partnerships, donor relations and events, and foundation relations.

Jeff received his Master of Business Administration from The Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelor of Science in Education from Miami University (Ohio). Based in Portland, OR, Jeff and his partner enjoy hiking, bike riding, and attending as many arts performances as possible.

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Elizabeth Steele Teshara

Elizabeth Steele Teshara is a skilled strategic relationship manager with over 20 years of experience in nonprofit board development and governance; campaign and special gift fundraising; directing complex and collaborative projects; and creating mission-centered events, conferences and experiences that elevate awareness, engagement and giving.

Elizabeth was most recently the Director of Conference and Special Events at The Trust for Public Land where she was the architect of the organization’s first nationwide events team and produced TPL’s first Gala in San Francisco, raising over $750,000 through this inaugural effort. She assumed this position after serving as the National Director of Volunteer Leadership where Elizabeth successfully led the Board of Directors and 20 Advisory Boards through a period of organizational growth and development and The Trust for Public Land’s first fundraising campaign – significantly increasing nationwide volunteer leadership engagement and philanthropic commitment during her tenure.

Prior to TPL, Elizabeth was an Executive Director at CCS Fundraising, a consulting firm specializing in non-profit campaign fundraising and strategic development services, and she managed the governing boards and advised on board member and leadership giving strategies for the University of California San Francisco Foundation and the Brookings Institution. At UCSF, Elizabeth was a primary partner in developing donor engagement and gift strategies for some of the University’s top donors.

Elizabeth received her BA in Communications and Business Administration at Saint Mary’s College of California. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons.

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Molly Pickall

Molly Pickall (she/her) is a senior nonprofit fundraising and management professional with 16 years’ experience in program development, remote team management, major gift fundraising, campaign execution, volunteer board management, event planning, donor stewardship and recognition, land and ocean conservation, strategic planning, and nonprofit and change management.

Having served as Chief Development Officer for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and AVP of Field Philanthropy for The Trust for Public Land, Molly is a dynamic program builder with a passion for directing and growing fundraising programs ranging from $1.5 million to $45 million and managing and leading teams of 1 to 32 staff, as well as launching and growing volunteer boards.

Her leadership and fundraising have resulted in big impact, whether at the local or national scale. She has personally raised more than $26.7 million and led multimillion-dollar campaigns to forever protect Wyoming’s 58,000-acre Hoback Basin from oil and gas drilling and to build a 60-acre ‘Central Park’ for Bozeman, Montana.

As a servant leader, Molly is a member of Leadership Montana (class of 2022), volunteers as a high school lacrosse coach and serves on the boards of various community organizations. She transitioned the Bozeman Area Community Foundation (now One Valley Community Foundation) from day-to-day management to hire its first executive director and evolve into a governance board. At the Cape Eleuthera Foundation, she supported the organization’s leadership transition and strategic planning, while the educational institution navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Molly earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and minor in Economics from Davidson College where she also played for and captained the Wildcat’s NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse team. She is based in Bozeman, Montana with her husband and two Brittany spaniels, and together they spend as much time as possible in the mountains.

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Alison Kolwaite

Alison Kolwaite is a champion of the non-profit and philanthropic sectors, supporting dynamic organizations to operate successfully, grow strategically, and deliver meaningful impact. With over 25 years of experience and expertise in fundraising, strategy and leadership development, governance, communications, and operational scaling, she has worked with local, regional and national organizations across multiple sectors—from healthcare and social services to education and the environment. She has managed complex and large teams, built operational capacity, matured and professionalized systems, and spearheaded strategic planning efforts. Her direct work with donors has yielded more than $200 million in investments.

Alison most recently served as Chief External Affairs Officer for a national anti-poverty and healthcare organization. Prior to that she held leadership positions at the Trust for Public Land, Denver Public Schools Foundation, and Chesapeake Bay Foundation. She also had the privilege of serving in the Executive Office of President William Jefferson Clinton during his second term.

A member of Leadership Denver (class of 2011) and former board member of Wonderbound Dance Company (Denver, CO) and Higher Achievement (Washington, DC), she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College (Northampton, MA) and her Master of Organizational Development from American University (Washington, DC).

She resides in Denver, CO with her family, where she spends her time skiing and hiking in the mountains or gardening and baking at home.

COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT AND PROJECT MANAGER

Mary Jeanette Ennis

Mary is an independent strategic communications consultant, graduate student, and resident “Does this sound okay?” expert. Previously an on-site fundraising consultant at CCS Fundraising, Mary personally led 20+ capital campaigns that cumulatively raised over $6.8 million in less than three years by focusing on strategic messaging. It was through this experience that Mary began developing streamlined communications and branding processes to help overburdened nonprofits lighten their load both internally and externally.

Mary shifted her focus to consulting on strategic communications and branding full-time in 2020. Since then, she has partnered with dozens of nonprofits around the country to collaborate on projects that range from formalizing major campaigns to identifying where prospect interests overlap with an organization through research. Also in the last two years, Mary earned a Professional Copy-Editing Certificate from the University of Chicago and pursued a master’s degree in Public Media from Fordham University. She is currently completing her thesis project on nonprofit brand-raising and expects to graduate in August 2022.

Before consulting, Mary was the inaugural Communications Fellow at Loyola Chicago’s Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise and Responsibility and a certified Digital Media Specialist. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University Chicago where she double majored in History and Political Science.

Based on the Upper West Side in New York City, Mary’s favorite things to do are “photosynthesize” in Central Park and document her travels on 35mm film.

OUT OF OFFICE ADMIN - ACCOUNTING

Amanda Barretto

Out of Office Admin, Inc. was founded in 2014 by Amanda Barretto. After many years of working very closely with business owners from a variety of different industries, Amanda saw first-hand how providing administrative support to business owners was vital to the success of the business.

Amanda is precise, detail-oriented and loves to multi-task. With her cheerful and dedicated manner, she has a passion for learning new concepts and helping others to be successful. She enjoys the challenge of working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and feels it is her duty to keep her clients organized, focused on their business and in compliance.

In her spare time, Amanda enjoys spending time with her family, loves portrait photography and traveling with her husband. She is also a Day of Wedding Coordinator. Check out her other business, My Wedding Fairies.

Email: Amanda@outofofficeadmin.com

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