Carol Bruce-Fritz is a visionary professional with more than 25 years experience as a nonprofit leader. As principal of BruceFritz and Associates, she now uses that experience to help organizations DO WELL WHILE DOING GOOD.

Recognized for her ability to foster effective organizations, she has a proven track record in marketing and communications, organizational development, brand management, crisis and issue management, fundraising, stakeholder relations, team building and leadership training, and strategic planning.

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Strategic and Business Planning

1. ✴Conducted long range visioning, strategic planning and business planning for numerous organizations, integrating stakeholder, board and staff input into the process.
   

2. ✴Developed business plans to accompany strategic visioning for several organizations, including detailed fundraising and marketing plans.
   

3. ✴Facilitated adoption of the Community Impact model for a regional United Way, enhancing relevancy and increasing potential for fundraising.
   

Organizational Development and Volunteer Governance

1. ✴Helped several organizations adopt, then adapt, policy governance (the Carver model) systems to align the model more closely with organizational life cycle needs.
   

2. ✴Prepared staff in several organizations to handle significant growth and change while maintaining a sense of teamwork and shared purpose.
   

3. ✴Managed six departments and over 100 employees of a $3.2 million regional historical society, developing budgets and long-range goals for every aspect of public outreach, public awareness and customer service.
   

4. ✴Assisted several boards of directors in developing policy and determining organizational structure.
   

Transition Management

1. ✴Led board, staff and volunteers through splitting an organization into two separate, but related, businesses and maintained loyalty and continuity of all stakeholders throughout the year-long process.
   

2. ✴Guided a board of directors through determining relevance and viability for a nonprofit, which resulted in the difficult decision to cease operations.
   

3. ✴Assisted a board of directors in preparing to hire their first paid staff by creating job descriptions, employment contracts, and personnel policies.
   

Brand Management

1. ✴Enhanced brand identity and customer loyalty by developing and implementing a comprehensive messaging strategy, resulting in increased donations and community support for Pikes Peak United Way.
   

2. ✴Trained 250 staff and 150 volunteers throughout a five-state region in how to answer the question “Where does the money go?” as part of an overall strategic branding initiative for the American Cancer Society.
   

3. ✴Trained an all-volunteer board and other stakeholders in consistent fundraising messaging.
   

Leadership Training

1. ✴Developed and conducted leadership training focusing on establishing systems perspectives for community leaders, college and high school students, and small businesses using Natural Intelligence.
   

Resource Development and Stakeholder Relations

1. ✴Raised $19 million from individual, corporate and foundation donors over 26 years for libraries, museums, health and human service organizations, and environmental organizations.
   

2. ✴Planned and conducted two successful political campaigns to expand the capabilities of a regional library district to serve a growing population.