FSO’s managing partners, Kerrie Mitchell and Krista Mitchell Cornell, bring over four decades of donor-centered philanthropic advising and leadership expertise with a mission-driven goal of sparking progress and building transformative change.
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Krista Mitchell Cornell
MANAGING PARTNER
Krista is a puzzle master who transforms opportunity into reality. With more than two decades of expertise, Krista has worked with large national not-for-profits, start-up organizations, and community-focused initiatives raising over $100 million. As a trusted advisor, she excels in connecting people, including those managing family wealth, and analyzing organizational systems to convert challenges into solutions for meaningful progress. She builds trusting relationships with principle, leadership, and planned giving donors utilizing moves management strategies, analyzing organizational goals, and devising plans to meet and surpass expectations. She adeptly aligns family office objectives with philanthropic goals, ensuring that each contribution makes a lasting impact.
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Kerrie Mitchell
MANAGING PARTNER
Kerrie is a philanthropic leader and strategist with over two decades of demonstrated expertise in national and international fundraising, nonprofit operations, and delivering comprehensive family office philanthropic services. Throughout her career, Kerrie has raised and deployed hundreds of millions of dollars of philanthropic capital, focusing on long-term relationships, impact, and strategic partnerships that advance values, vision, and missions. Her knowledge and passion inspires progress and provides insightful guidance to families and charities alike. With her deep understanding and broad experience, she works with philanthropists to prioritize and integrate their legacy, values, and financial goals to achieve lasting impact. She helps nonprofits propel their fundraising programs.
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Judithe Registre
SENIOR STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Judithe Registre advises organizational clients on the design and impact of social program outcomes at the intersection of private, public, and civil society partnerships with a focus on racial, gender, and economic justice. She offers a variety of strategic business development services to clients in order to help them achieve greater success. She contributes to the enhancement of strategies, tactics, and business models in order to improve resource mobilization techniques as well as the quality and focus of program delivery services for clients—influencing brand and mission-aligned communication in order to attract long-term funding and partnerships.
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Karen Scriven
SENIOR STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Karen Scriven has 30 years of experience building partnerships with individuals, companies, foundations, and government institutions to drive the change they want to see. Ms. Scriven helps organizations assess needs and identify and address roadblocks to grow impact, increase resources, and motivate for inclusive and practical action. Ms. Scriven’s expertise lies in institutional donor relationship building and designing and winning competitive bids focused on women and girls’ rights and leadership. Ms. Scriven is passionate about the power of young people to drive change. She coaches cohorts of emerging leaders to drive organizational change processes, build and nurture diverse and inclusive teams, negotiate strategic partnerships, and grow their influence skills. She has directly raised over $250 million for nonprofit organizations from individual and institutional donors, consistently hitting or exceeding fundraising targets.
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Rodrigo Barillas
SENIOR STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Rodrigo is a philanthropic leader with nearly two decades of experience driving impact in nonprofit organizations, strategic philanthropy, and organizational growth. Specializing in healthcare, education, and women’s rights, he has directed nearly $20 million in philanthropic capital toward high-impact initiatives across the Central American region. As the Founding Director of the Luis von Ahn Foundation, Rodrigo grew the organization’s grant portfolio from $600K to $4.5M, benefiting over 100,000 individuals annually through innovative partnerships and mission-aligned strategies. With an MBA and extensive experience as an executive director, he excels in scaling organizations, developing mission-driven fundraising strategies, and strengthening governance structures. His expertise lies in aligning donor intentions with organizational missions, ensuring sustainable change in vulnerable communities.
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Allison Stevens
CREATIVE STRATEGIST
Allison Stevens understands that to make a difference, leaders must embrace the world's thoughts and ideas. Allison is a genius who can simplify complex ideas and turn them into beautiful designs, graphics, inspiring communications, and presentations. Her background is a blend of fine art, creative writing, visual design, and composition, in addition to marketing, interpersonal communications, and creative problem-solving.