Ken Brissa Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Responsible for directing the overall operations & resources of Phoenix Rescue Mission, a faith-based charitable organization that offers a number of Christ-centered programs and services for men, women, and children in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area who are struggling with homelessness, addiction, food insecurity, and trauma.• Provide direction and leadership toward the achievement of the Mission's Mission, Vision, Values, and Initiatives. Collaborate with staff and volunteer leadership to prayerfully seek the wisdom and exercise the discernment necessary to recognize the leadership the Lord wants for the Mission.• Build an inspiring culture, set the course of future strategic direction, and identify PRM's annual goals and objectives while practicing inspired & Transformational Servant Leadership to promote positive morale and a high-performing culture.• Act as the main point of communication between the board of directors and organizational operations, build trust relations with key partners, stakeholders, community leaders, and staff and create and cultivate alliances and partnerships with other organizations to expand the reach of PRM.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Responsible for establishing strategy and setting direction for over 400 staff in 80 nationwide markets raising $86,000,000 with a focus on mission integration, revenue growth, collaboration and staff and volunteer development.• Led activities to recruit, retain and grow an integrated revenue portfolio of opportunities from event fundraising to transformational giving. Cultivated and maintained relationships with the highest level donors and prospects to drive growth in peer-to-peer fundraising, individual giving and major gift level giving.• Led, coached and developed a team that includes local market leaders and their talented staff to create and execute growth strategies and plans for increasing donor-centric revenue in order to achieve maximum productivity and profitability outcomes.• Collaborated with Executive Leadership, colleagues and other senior leaders to develop strategies and practices enhancing the ability of the Foundation to achieve its mission, engage volunteers, and help every baby have the healthiest start so each generation has the brightest tomorrow.

Manhattan Beach, Ca, Us

• Led the overall operations and fundraising strategy, and directed over 40 full time staff to drive the highest revenue generating and ROI activities for the Community Engagement program nationwide.• Responsible for leadership, management and organizational development of 55 national chapter markets led by over 200 volunteer leaders with a focus on fundraising, community relations and event execution.• Created comprehensive fundraising, operations and volunteer training plans for community and chapter programs and ensured that they were aligned with the mission of the organization.• Served on the organization's senior executive leadership team, the primary group providing operational and strategic oversight to the organization.• Implemented and managed data collection, tracking, analysis, forecasting, and constituent analytics tools and processes to drive key fundraising and activation metrics.

Irvine, California, Us

• Led and supervised the fundraising team to build funding partnerships, cultivate, solicit and steward a continuous base of corporations, foundations, individuals, volunteers, and government and education institutions to raise $8 million annually to transform math education nationwide.• Responsible for achievement of overall fund development goals, specifically solicitations ranging from $100,000 to seven-figure gifts annually and multi-year commitments in support of MIND.• Led fundraising operations, strategic planning, grant proposal, and donor and sponsor recognition and stewardship activities throughout the organization.• Developed and executed comprehensive cultivation strategies for prospects, and supported the cultivation and solicitation of multi-year gift requests.

New York, New York, Us

• Managed Chapter Executive Directors, Regional Managers and all fundraising, operational, revenue growth, board and staff development, P&L management, resource allocation, and outcome based strategic planning initiatives within a region with an $18 million budget in 7 major markets and surrounding areas.• Exceeded Regional Overall Net Income budget fundraising goals by 22.5% in and 22.2% respectively in consecutive years by implementing and influencing key operational and development strategies and redeploying regional resources.• Winner of the ‘Region of the Year Award’ for overall regional performance and individually won inaugural ‘JDRF President’s Collaboration Award’ at Annual Conference for exemplifying JDRF’s vision for collaboration.• Created cross-geographic Core Program Strike Forces, populated with over 50 regional staff and volunteers, to identify fiscal year development goals and jointly manage action items to achieve and exceed those goals.• Reallocated 5 additional headcount to fundraising focused positions by deploying and sharing staff, virtually and on-site, to support and improve chapter’s functions throughout the region.Directed all development, operations, board engagement and management activities, and oversaw 15 full time staff, for the Arizona and New Mexico markets and its $3 million budget.• Implemented and influenced key individual, corporate and event-based development strategies and deployed chapter resources resulting in Promise Ball Gross Revenue of 115% of budget.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Increased chapter event income revenue 91% in 4 years with a 6% expense to gross revenue ratio.• Winner of the ‘Iron Horse Award’ for outstanding achievement in fundraising and expense management, ‘Chapter of the Year Award’ for overall chapter performance, ‘Walk Hall of Fame Award’, ‘Highest Walk Revenue Increase Award’ and ‘Lowest Walk Expense Ratio Award’.• Led enterprise-wide strategic planning activity among 38 Chapters to garner and increase support from other chapters for national programs and initiatives.• Designed, communicated and implemented departmental and organizational-wide budgets, policies and procedures to establish goals, measure performance against those goals, and ensure continuous improvement.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Provided clients with leadership development, coaching, consulting and training services. Worked with CEOs, Presidents and top administrators to develop, implemented and evaluated processes, operational practices, and training and learning solutions.

• Oversight and direction of administration and operations of a $30M organization with 12 direct reports, 110 regular and 1,100 temporary employees, and over 900 programs.• Performed needs assessment and redesigned program development, quality, marketing and operation plans resulting in a 39% increase in net revenue and 21% increase in gross revenue.• Developed partnerships and facilitated negotiations with high-level administrators, elected officials and business leaders to create interagency agreements totaling over $5M for the organization.

Lisle, Il, Us

• Responsible for the resource coordination, administration, planning, organizational development, quality guidelines and strategies, and management of global activity for $85M core customer.• Created and delivered customized sales and operations presentations to customers’ senior executives, sales, research and procurement staffs and concerned stakeholders worldwide.

Certification, Total Quality Management

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