Meet Our New Visionaries
We are thrilled to present our three new board members Christi Smith, director of Rocky Mountain programs at Enterprise Community Partners; Charles “Chuck” Wehrwein, executive vice president of business enterprises, innovations and strategic partnerships at Housing Partnership Network
(HPN); and Kyle Henderson, principal at Southpaw Development. Each bring a wealth of experience and passion to our mission. Their diverse backgrounds and expertise will be instrumental in driving our initiatives forward.
Christi Smith is the Director of Rocky Mountain programs at Enterprise Community Partners. In this role, she manages the programmatic and grantmaking initiatives across Colorado and oversees the Wells Fargo Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge, a $40 million national initiative supporting the development and scalability of new innovations and approaches to address the nation’s affordable housing crisis. Enterprise is driven by three core goals: expanding housing supply, advancing racial equity, and fostering resilience and upward mobility. On RMC’s board, Christi is the chair of RMC’s Fund Development Committee.
Chuck Wehrwein oversees operations of Housing Partnership Network’s social enterprises, accelerating and scaling new social enterprises and strategic business partnerships. The Housing Partnership Network (HPN) is a nationally recognized collaborative of over 100 leading housing and community development organizations. HPN fosters peer-to-peer learning and advances policies and practices grounded in the expertise of top nonprofits. Through its innovative networked approach, HPN helps organizations and leaders scale solutions, driving faster and more effective responses to evolving market challenges and opportunities. At HPN, he has served in many roles over an 18-year period that included managing the growth and development of the award-winning Housing Partnership Insurance Exchange (HPIEx) that provides insurance stability and solutions for nonprofit affordable organizations across the U.S. He also currently serves as a member of HPN’s executive leadership team.
Kyle Henderson is a multifamily developer that has experience with age-restricted, market-rate, and affordable housing projects. He is a principal at Southpaw Development. Kyle is a current member of the Colorado Middle Income Housing Authority whose purpose is to promote affordable rental housing projects for the middle-income workforce throughout Colorado. For over 20 years, Kyle has been focused on developing new ground-up projects in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region.
Discover how our Board of Directors are poised to steer our nonprofit towards groundbreaking achievements in affordable housing.
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Together, we can build a world where everyone has a place to call home.