Laura C. Bulluck

MS in Nonprofit Management and Leadership ’10 Laura Bulluck is a leader and forward thinker who continuously works to find new ways to help her community and the people in it.  She earned her MS in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Walden in 2010, the same year she founded Hope’s Crossing, a Phoenix-based nonprofit that helps women in transition build healthy, sustainable lives. Services include training programs in life skills and job readiness.  Bulluck also combines her education and philanthropy as founder and CEO of consulting firm Laura Bulluck LLC. Her “I Can Plan” system guides individuals through seven steps that provide structure, systems, and detailed planning to help make dreams a reality.

Thanks for sharing your story with us Laura. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.  I like to say my story began 20,824 days ago, I was born into a purpose I had not yet discovered. As a native Phoenician, I had never met anyone who had a story about living a life on purpose. So imagine my amazement when on what I felt was my death bed, God spoke to me telling me the assignment I was working on, as part of my Master’s Degree program, I was to take that assignment and bring it to life. Approximately ten years ago, I was a student at Walden University studying Non-Profit Management and Leadership and I had to identify a social issue in my community and write a hypothetical solution to it. Little did I know that the solution would be named “Hope’s Crossing” Read More

Every time I see Mary at her life skills class at Hope’s Crossing, she says I saved her life. She left home at 14 because of her father’s abuse. When he discovered that she had become a prostitute to survive, he made her work for him. That led to a life of drugs, alcohol, and more abusive relationships. She was incarcerated in her 30s for aggravated assault. I started Hope’s Crossing for women like Mary whose traumatic experiences have led to bad choices. They need tools to transition to a successful life. That’s our mission.  Read More

Picture a young woman with five children whose drinking and incarcerations led her to lose custody of them. Nowhere to go but home to a toxic environment, she knew she needed help to get clean and sober and get her children back. Enter Hope’s Crossing, a Phoenix, Ariz., nonprofit organization founded by Laura Bulluck, a 2011 MS in Nonprofit Management and Leadership graduate. Within 18 months, that troubled woman was sober, employed, a peer mentor, and member of the board of directors at the same nonprofit organization that gave her hope and the tools to overcome life’s challenges.  Read More