KATE HARTNICK ELLIOTT

Kate Hartnick Elliott, the president and founder of Hartnick Communications, has decades of experience in philanthropy and cross-platform communications and marketing.

Photo Credit: Luis Santana

Before founding Hartnick Communications, Elliott was Executive Director of Development Communications and Donor Engagement at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In this capacity, she conceived and implemented a broad vision for using multi-platform marketing and communications to strengthen relationships with donors while reinforcing the hospital's brand and supporting its $2 billion capital campaign:

Partnering with senior vice presidents, division and service line leads, gift officers, and other stakeholders to create fundraising proposals that helped generate over $500 million in philanthropic revenues.
Overseeing teams of digital marketing, publications, audiovisual, donor stewardship, and event communications professionals.
Creating a work process and team structure that empowered Development Communications to more than double the volume of deliverables during a period of enormous enterprise growth, without compromising quality.
Establishing a unified and branded style for all development communications, including proposals, outcome reports, magazines, stewardship books and videos, online appeals, and the collateral and signage for 80 annual donor events.
Helping to lay the groundwork for accelerating online donations by elevating the content of nyp.org/giving, the functionality of the online event platform, and the cadence and optimization of online appeals.

Previously, Elliott built and led Hartnick Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that provided strategic communications, donor engagement, and marketing services to nonprofit and public sector clients, including:

Carnegie Corporation of New York
CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice
CUNY's Macaulay Honors College
The New York City Department of Small Business Services
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
The New School
United Jewish Communities
United Way of New York City
Weill Cornell Medicine

Representative projects included:

Branding and outreach: Directing the first agency-wide branding and outreach initiative for the New York City Department of Small Business Services.
Donor communications and event logistics: Planning and providing on-site management and developing event collateral for the 2004 gala celebrating the launch of NewYork-Presbyterian's Billion Dollar Capital Campaign.

Marketing and fundraising strategy: Developing strategic marketing and fundraising plans for United Way of New York City's Nonprofit Leadership Development Institute and United Jewish Communities.
Online communications: Providing strategic advice to Carnegie Corporation of New York and 27 of its grantees, in addition to creating three sites for the corporation itself.
Public relations: Spearheaded the public relations outreach for Picture Projects' Sonic Memorial Project, which resulted in placements in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Wired News, as well as on ABC News.

Elliott graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Psychology from Amherst College, and with a Master of Business Administration degree in Marketing and Management of Organizations from Columbia Business School.