Shelli Bischoff-Turner
 Shelli
is the co-founder and president of Conservation Impact. Shelli
specializes in strategic positioning, marketing, and organizational
development. She works with clients to be more constituent-centered
and position them for success. She is passionate about focus
and efficacy - doing the right things to get intended results.
Since founding Conservation Impact in 1996,
Shelli has served more than 300 organizations including land
trusts, watershed groups, state, regional, and national resource
management and protection coalitions, and environmental grantmakers.
Three years ago, Shelli founded Nonprofit
Impact to serve a broader array of nonprofits including
human services, women's rights, and arts, culture, and historic preservation organizations.
Shelli has provided consulting, training, and facilitation
to nonprofits, government agencies, and small businesses for
the past 25 years. Her knowledge is based on significant hands-on
management experience in starting and growing organizations.
Her experience includes creating revenue-generating nonprofit
enterprises in the juvenile justice field, fundraising for
environmental education, and creating a several million-dollar
profit center in higher education.
Prior to her work with Conservation Impact,
Shelli founded and managed the Red Rocks Institute. Shelli
has also held positions as assistant state director for the
Small Business Development Center; executive director of Midtown
Services; project director for the Colorado Technical Assistance
Center; director of development for Thorne Ecological Institute;
and technical assistance planner in the U.S. Department of
Interior.
- Master's
degree in public administration, University of Colorado
at Denver
- Bachelor's
degree in environmental conservation, University of Colorado
at Denver
- 20 years adjunct
faculty member at Regis University in Denver in the master's
of nonprofit management program, and undergraduate business program, awarded 2002
Excellence
in Teaching Award
- Distinguished
visiting professor at the College of the Atlantic
- Board member Latina Initiative
- Past
member of the board of the Colorado Nonprofit Association
- Speaker at national association conferences
- Partner
in a family-owned retail business
- Enjoys
hiking, biking, and snowshoeing, or being indoors with a good book
or preparing gourmet meals
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