Natalie Rekstad | Founder & CEO

Superpower:  Leveraging a strategist’s mind and philanthropist’s heart to attract significant and sustainable funding for global NGO clients.

Natalie Rekstad leads a purpose-driven life as the Founder and CEO of Black Fox Philanthropy, a leading fundraising strategy firm serving global NGOs that exists to accelerate the social sector’s effectiveness in solving complex problems on a global scale. As a B Corp, Black Fox Philanthropy measures the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit.

Natalie’s core belief is that the future hinges upon a more just and gender-balanced world.  To that end, she is a former trustee of The Women’s Foundation of Colorado and is investing significant resources to advance their mission of accelerating economic opportunities for women and girls. Her firm funds a Girls, Inc. scholarship entitled “Black Fox Scholars,” rewarding high school girls for excellence in philanthropy.  Natalie is a Women Moving Millions member and an MCE Social Capital Guarantor; a delegate of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women.  She is a gender-lens angel investor and serves on the Global Advisory Board of World Pulse.  Further, she is a newly minted member of Founders Pledge.

Natalie is also an award-winning children’s book author: “The Secret Adventures of Anonymouse,” a random acts of kindness/philanthropy/SEL picture book aimed at 3 – 6-year-olds. It is being translated into over a dozen languages worldwide, reaching over 100 million children through social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed by Think Equal, based in the UK.