Senior Leadership, Backed by a Coordinated Team
Every engagement is led by an experienced fractional leader who serves as your primary strategic partner and point of accountability. That leader helps establish priorities, guides implementation, oversees the quality of the work, and keeps every moving piece aligned with your mission and goals. Behind the scenes, our broader team provides specialized support where it adds the most value.
Depending on your organization’s priorities, that may include:
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Fundraising strategy and implementation
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Major donor development
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Prospect and foundation research
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Grant strategy and development
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Donor communications & campaign materials
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Fundraising systems and CRM support
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Project coordination and implementation
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Strategic communications
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Board and leadership development
This coordinated model gives your organization access to diverse expertise without requiring you to hire a full development department—or manage multiple consultants and vendors.
Built Around Your Organization
Your Mission
No two nonprofits have the same mission, community, capacity, or funding challenges. We customize every engagement around what your organization needs most, whether that means building an individual giving program, developing major donor relationships, diversifying revenue, preparing for a capital campaign, strengthening internal systems, or navigating a significant period of growth or transition.
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Our recommendations are grounded in your organization’s actual capacity. We help identify what matters most, determine what is realistic, and focus available resources where they can create the greatest impact.
Rooted in Montana. Invested in Your Mission.
As a Montana-based firm, we understand the relationships, funding realities, rural communities, philanthropic networks, and collaborative ecosystems in which nonprofits operate throughout Montana and the Northern Rockies.
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Most importantly, we become genuinely invested in the organizations we serve. You receive one accountable strategic partner, a coordinated team of specialists, and experienced support that stays with you as the work moves from idea to implementation.
Skipping Rock Strategies Team
Jenifer Gursky
Founder, Principal Consultant
Jenifer Gursky is a nonprofit executive and fundraising strategist with more than 20 years’ experience in fundraising, organizational leadership, and philanthropy. As Founder and Principal of Skipping Rock Strategies, she serves as a fractional fundraising executive, helping nonprofit leaders build diversified revenue strategies, strengthen major donor and institutional funder relationships, and develop sustainable fundraising systems. Her background spans nonprofit executive leadership, community philanthropy, public policy and governance, giving her a strong understanding of complex, partnership-driven organizations. Jenifer will serve as the senior strategic lead, guiding revenue diversification, philanthropic positioning, and high-value funding relationships.
Melinda Reed
Senior Strategist
Melinda Reed is a public-service and nonprofit leader with extensive experience in governance, coalition leadership, international systems, and community-based organizations. Her career spans municipal executive leadership, global humanitarian and human-rights work, and nonprofit executive service, bringing a practical understanding of complex stakeholder environments and mission-driven organizations. Melinda brings particular strength in governance, accountability, public-sector relationships, and cross-sector collaboration. Melinda will contribute strategic insight on coalition dynamics, stakeholder engagement, and the systems and relationships that influence long-term organizational sustainability.
Putiviola Nasir (Ola)
Senior Consultant
Putiviola “Ola” Nasir is a senior consultant and project management professional with more than a decade of experience in higher education, international development, and mission-driven initiatives. At Skipping Rock Strategies, she leads the Indonesia-based project management, administrative support, and online marketing team, helping translate strategy into coordinated, consistent execution. Her background in international relations, capacity building, and cross-cultural communication brings a systems-oriented approach to managing complex work across teams and priorities. Ola will support project coordination, administrative workflows, and the integration of fundraising activity, research, communications, and implementation.
Aileen Gleizer
Senior Consultant
Aileen Gleizer is a public affairs and cross-sector leader with 15+ years working at the intersection of communications, operations, and government relations. Her career spans philanthropy, Fortune 100 companies, domestic and global public health, federal and state legislative engagement, and Montana-based nonprofits. She brings expertise in governance, cross-sector partnerships, and executive leadership across programs in the U.S., Africa, and Asia. She previously led humanitarian operations and programs at Save the Children and held roles at Merck & Co., the National Institute for Reproductive Health, and the Obama White House. She currently serves as a consultant to mission-driven institutions on organizational strategy, communications, advocacy, and systems that sustain social impact causes and movements.
Randra Maulidan-Linto
Communications Consultant
Randra brings strong experience in project coordination, digital communications, workflow management, and quality assurance to the Skipping Rock Strategies team. He manages concurrent projects, coordinated cross-functional creative and digital-marketing, maintains deliverable schedules, prepares client briefs and presentations, and ensures that deliverables remain accurate, consistent, and on time. For Good Samaritan Ministries, Randra will help translate approved fundraising and Catholic ministry-forward messaging into coordinated communications across email, social media, presentations, campaign materials, and other donor-facing channels. He will also maintain content calendars, organize campaign assets, track deadlines, and coordinate production—providing the day-to-day implementation capacity needed to keep Good Samaritan’s annual fundraising priorities and the Our Place campaign moving forward consistently.
