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CourageLab has helped solo EDs and small teams raise over $70 million in unrestricted major gifts since 2018 and transform into a bolder, braver leader with the donors, team, and community.

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Julie Ordoñez

CEO & Founder of CourageLab

Julie Ordoñez is a leading major gifts strategist and coach helping nonprofit leaders get the courage and strategy to raise more major gifts in record time.  

With over 15 years of experience—from one-person development shop to major gifts officer and top 1% performer at United Way of Greater Los Angeles to development director at a national anti-poverty organization, to senior philanthropy officer at New Story—she is a coach who understands the current fundraising climate and raised over $2.5M in 2022-23 from individuals.

She is the host of the Nonprofit CourageLab podcast, which hit #3 on the U.S. nonprofit charts in Sept 2022. She is on a mission to equip nonprofit leaders with the courage to ask for more. She and her husband moved to Chicago after 17 years in Los Angeles to help start a church and create community for people in the city.

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