Experience

Kristi House

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Strategy Officer

  • Jan 2004 - Present

  Serve as senior leader enabling the expansion of this Child Advocacy Center’s capacity to meet the vast need for services in large Miami-Dade County. Responsible for overall fund raising and community relations, overseeing all grants, special events, philanthropy programs, media relations and communications, working closely with the CEO, senior team and other staff, board members, consultants, community partners and volunteers.• Secured funds to strategically grow the organization from a $1.5 million annual budget to its current budget of more than $5.1 million through competitive federal and foundation grants, special events and individual giving.• Enabled the expansion of the agency’s scope from exclusively serving victims of child sexual abuse—the agency’s original singular focus—to victims of all types of childhood trauma and child sex trafficking.• Garnered community support and capital funding to acquire, renovate and open a dedicated Drop In Center for sex trafficked teen girls, the first of its kind in Florida, as well as secure funding to expand the organization’s footprint from one to six locations in the county.• Have consistently secured highly competitive, major multi-year federal and national grants including from the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and from the country’s largest private foundation, Robert Wood Johnson.• Work closely with board members and CEOs to navigate the organization through sensitive political waters, board leadership and CEO leadership changes, and external challenges.



Brickell Homeowners Association

• Consultant

  • Jan 1991 - Present

  Operated this community association for 29 years serving as the sole paid consultant managing administration, communications, membership and sponsorship development, government relations, marketing, finances, special community-wide events and monthly meetings for this association of 55,000+ homeowners in the luxury, high-rise Brickell corridor. Now serve in advisory role to in-the-community team.• Employed and managed a team of several specialists to handle the association’s growing scope of community involvement. • Grew the organization from 12 condominium associations to more than 40 luxury condo associations and 25 business members.• Oversaw relations with elected officials from City of Miami, Miami-Dade County and Miami-Dade County Public Schools in pursuit of the organization’s advocacy goals. • Served numerous volunteer presidents and board members over the years, helping to position the organization as the “powerhouse of homeowners groups” with a long list of quality-of-life achievements on behalf of the residents.