Breadth of Experience
Kristin Peck brings more than twenty years of experience across nonprofit leadership, public health, education, social services, fundraising, community partnerships, and independent consulting. Her work has moved between direct service and organizational leadership: managing programs and budgets, writing and stewarding grants, developing partnerships, supervising staff, working with funders and community institutions, and helping organizations translate mission into work that can actually be sustained.
Leadership & Organizational Development
Kristin’s experience includes program leadership, staff supervision, budget management, grant compliance, quality assurance, partnership development, and coordination across organizations and disciplines. She has led programs serving complex community needs while remaining responsible for the less visible infrastructure behind them: funding, reporting, workflows, external relationships, implementation, and the practical decisions that determine whether a good idea survives contact with daily operations.
That combination shapes her approach to organizational development. Strategy is useful only when an organization has the relationships, resources, systems, and internal capacity to carry it out.
Fundraising, Grants & Resource Development
Kristin has worked across multiple forms of nonprofit revenue development, including institutional grants, corporate sponsorships and partnerships, fundraising events, donor engagement, and community resource development.
Her grant experience includes serving as the sole author and steward of the principal annual renewable Targeted Case Management grant for Johnson County Health & Environment’s Empowering Futures program, along with responsibility for reporting and stewardship across a diversified funding portfolio. Her work has also included developing corporate partnerships that produced both financial and in-kind support, helping organizations articulate program impact for funders, and connecting revenue strategy to program realities.
Her development experience is grounded in a simple premise: revenue strategy should strengthen the organization rather than create promises, programs, or obligations it cannot sustain.
PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
At Johnson County Health & Environment, Kristin managed the Empowering Futures program serving pregnant and parenting adolescents. Over more than six years, she managed an approximately $500,000 annual program budget, supervised staff, oversaw quality and grant requirements, coordinated partnerships, and worked across behavioral health, public health, education, family systems, and community services.
The role required both clinical understanding and organizational management: supporting families with complex needs while also maintaining the funding, partnerships, reporting, systems, and accountability required to keep the program functioning.
That experience remains central to Kristin’s perspective on nonprofit leadership. Mission and operations are not separate activities. The quality of the work experienced by clients and communities is often determined by decisions made much farther upstream.
Education & School-Based Systems
Kristin’s education experience began in family literacy and later included school social work in large and complex school communities. Her work has included crisis response, family engagement, student support, community-resource coordination, interdisciplinary problem solving, and collaboration with educators, administrators, mental health providers, and outside agencies.
Working inside schools reinforced something that also applies to nonprofits more broadly: difficult outcomes rarely belong to a single person, department, or intervention. They emerge from systems. Effective responses therefore require both attention to the individual and an understanding of the environment.
CONSULTING ACROSS SECTORS
Since 2020, Kristin has worked independently across nonprofit, legal, human-services, and community settings. Her consulting work has included nonprofit resource development and partnership building; immigration and forensic social-work consultation; assessments and written analysis for attorneys and legal matters; expert testimony; family and parenting support; and community-development work in the United States and internationally.
That range of work has required moving comfortably between disciplines and stakeholders—attorneys, nonprofit leaders, community organizations, families, funders, and institutional partners—and translating complex human and organizational needs into practical next steps.
Peck Advisory Group grows out of that cross-sector experience. Kristin’s work is intentionally interdisciplinary because organizational problems rarely stay inside one professional category. A revenue problem may also be a relationship problem. A program problem may actually be a capacity problem. A strategy problem may turn out to be an implementation problem.
The useful work begins with identifying which one it actually is.