Christine has more than 20 years of development experience including fundraising leadership positions in healthcare, higher education, social service, and arts and culture organizations. This breadth offers her clients a multi-faceted strategic approach to fundraising, board development, proposal creation, and project management. With comprehensive fundraising plans, messaging, and branding, she has helped her clients transform their fundraising results.

Since 2018, Christine and her partners have completed campaign feasibility studies and provided campaign counsel to organizations across human services, workforce development, and arts and culture sectors. In addition to her role with the Alexander Ross Group, she leads her own fundraising consulting firm, Raising Results.

Prior to relocating to the Chicago area in 2025, Christine served as Executive Director, Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations at Hiram College. There she worked alongside faculty and senior leadership to bring capital projects to fruition through donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. With architects and planners, she facilitated ideation meetings with internal and external stakeholders that reimagined campus buildings for the student experience. 

At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Christine led a team of five professionals focused on annual giving, corporate philanthropy, foundations, and membership. Her team secured individual and institutional gifts for the first phase of the museum's capital campaign for the Perkins Wildlife Center. Christine and her team planned and staffed the celebration and grand opening attended by 400 major donors, guests, and media. 

At YWCA Greater Cleveland, Christine refreshed an eight-year-old breakfast fundraiser into a roving cocktail party at the Cleveland Museum of Art that nearly doubled the event's net revenue and attracted 700 supporters. She and her five-person development and marketing team raised gifts from individuals and institutional donors. 

A seasoned foundation, corporate and government relations officer, Christine’s portfolio included many federal agencies, including SAMHSA, CDC, IMLS, State, and NEH. She developed successful state-funded proposals to the Ohio Departments of Medicaid, Health, Education, and Environmental Protection and Ohio Humanities Council. Further, she has secured support from foundations that fund locally and nationally, including several with single-digit success rates. 

In a civic leadership capacity, Christine serves on the national board of Phi Kappa Phi. During her time in Northeast Ohio, she served a four-year term as a board director with Chair-ity (2021-2025) and a three-year term with Business Volunteers Unlimited (2021-2024). She served as a senior fellow in the Cleveland Leadership Center’s Advanced Leadership Institute (2021-2022). In 2023, Crain’s Cleveland Business recognized Christine as a Notable in Accounting and Consulting.

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christine@alexanderrossgroup.net
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