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At Skipping Rock Strategies, we don’t offer cookie-cutter solutions. We co-create strategies that reflect your organization’s unique mission, values, and challenges. Every plan, tool, and recommendation is tailored for you, not lifted from a generic playbook. We blend big-picture visioning with roll-up-the-sleeves practicality: we don’t just help you dream — we help you build the systems, processes, and habits that turn those dreams into reality.

What makes Skipping Rock different?

PROVEN

With over four decades’ experience of leading, advising, and building capacity in nonprofits, we bring a track record of helping organizations turn vision into sustainable, real-world impact. We’ve raised millions of dollars for critical missions.

COLLABORATIVE

We're not into canned solutions - we listen deeply, ask the right questions, and work alongside you to co-create strategies that fit your mission and reality.

ALLY

We care as much about your success as you do - we show up, stick with you, and help you build the confidence and tools to thrive long after our work ends. Our clients know we're in their corner, not just for today’s challenges, but for their future.

JUSTICE

We're driven by a commitment to fairness and equity, always working to amplify voices, challenge barriers, and support organization that make the world more just. We want to help clients stay mission-focused while navigating complex challenges and opportunities.

TRUST

We believe meaningful change only happens when trust is at the foundation. We build honest, respectful relationships with clients and communities - showing up with integrity, transparency - every time.

COMMUNITY

We see our work as part of something larger - a shared effort to strengthen our communities and the people in them. We value connection, collaboration, and the kind of collective power that helps organizations and individuals thrive - together.

Family

Family shapes how we lead, serve, and connect. We believe in showing up with loyalty, care, and presence - for our loved ones, for our clients, and for the communities we build together. Our work reflects that same commitment: to nurture, protect, and help others grow strong and resilient.

Meet Jen Gursky

Jen has over 15 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, strategic planning, and organizational development.
She’s led from every seat at the table: executive director, board chair, fundraiser, policy advocate, and team builder.
As a lifelong learner and process nerd, Jen is equal parts strategist and implementer.
She’s known for designing custom solutions grounded in real-world constraints - and for actually sticking around to help bring them to life.
Her clients trust her for her clarity, creativity, and commitment to doing the work in a way that feels human.

A lifelong learner and process nerd, Jen is equal parts strategist and implementer. She’s known for designing custom solutions grounded in real-world constraints - and for actually sticking around to help bring them to life. Her clients trust her for her clarity, creativity, and commitment to doing the work in a way that feels human.

Prior to launching Skipping Rock Strategies, Jen served as Executive Director of YWCA Helena and led statewide programs focused on civic engagement, community wellness, and judicial accountability. Whether she’s guiding a strategic planning process, coaching a leadership team, or stepping in as a fractional executive, Jen brings a deep respect for the work—and a fresh perspective to doing it better.

Meet Aileen Gleizer

Aileen Gleizer has over two decades of experience working with organizations across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors.
She has expertise in communications, strategy, media, program management, policy/advocacy, and fundraising.
She specializes in global, humanitarian, and domestic public health and social justice.
She’s worked for global foundations, Fortune 50 companies, local and federal government, U.S. nonprofits, and international non-governmental organizations. She offers consulting services to mission-driven organizations which allows her to merge her commitment to domestic and global work.

Aileen Gleizer worked at Save the Children as the Senior Director of Programs and Operations Management, leading operations, finance, and communications for an over $230 million humanitarian health portfolio on a cross-functional global team. She worked with Merck for Mothers, Merck’s $500 million corporate social responsibility program on maternal health and MSI Choices (previously Marie Stopes International). In those roles, she managed programs in Africa and Asia, oversaw the U.S. policy advocacy portfolios, directed engagement with Congress and the Administration, and led strategic communications. She's also worked on U.S. health programs, policy, and communications with Planned Parenthood, the Obama White House, the Baltimore City Health Department, and the National Institute for Reproductive Health.

She earned a Master of Public Policy in health policy and public management from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University with coursework from the University of Amsterdam.