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Community Investment Strategies

Patricia Sinay

Latine (Latino/Latina/Latin American, Hispanic, Chicano)

Women Owned, Latina immigrant

Business Categories
Community Services

Location
Online Only Business
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Community Investment Strategies

Community Outreach & Engagement

  • Connecting and bridging diverse communities, groups, and sectors
  • Messaging
  • Convening
  • Highlights: The California Citizens Redistricting Commission designed an outreach plan that resulted in nearly 40,000 public inputs from individuals throughout the state; Holland America Line designed and implemented its 15-year corporate giving program in San Diego County

Strategic Planning & Implementation

  • Planning Process: Design, facilitate, train, and draft
  • Organizational Development: Design and implement training; Policy review and updates; Analyze organizational workflow and staffing
  • Program Design: Research best practices, facilitate and design session
  • Highlights: Completed strategic plans for Chicano Federation, Casa Familiar, Barrio Logan College Institute, Living Coast Discovery Center, Border Philanthropy Partnership, Pacific Arts Movement, and Home Start

Community Organizing

  • Collective Impact facilitator
  • Funders collaboratives facilitator
  • Highlights: 211 Orange County’s Get Help OC, Orange County’s Veterans Initiative, and City Heights Partnership for Children

Leadership Development

  • Board, executive, and management training, facilitation, coaching
  • Training topics include but are not limited to, governance; strategic planning including vision, mission, and values; scenario planning; fundraising, reading financials, outcome evaluations; advocacy, outreach, campaigns, ethics, philanthropy, and giving circles, Latine & women giving
  • Talen Search
  • Highlights: Somali Family Services, Community HousingWorks, A Reason to Survive

Research & Report Writing: Putting a face on numbers

  • Discovering qualitative data, including Interviews, focus groups, and survey
  • Analyzing existing public data
  • Highlights: Community Resource Center, 2024 Community Assessment (to be published 2025); Common Cause, The Road Map for Fair Maps 2030; Hospital Association of San Diego & Imperial Counties, 2022 San Diego Community Health Needs Assessment

Transitional Leadership

  • Serving in interim leadership positions
  • Talent Search
  • Preparing and coaching executive leadership and Boards through executive transitions
  • Highlights: Interim Director for Programs, Policy & Partnerships at Blue Star Families and Executive transition consultant for Emilio Nares Foundation

Advocacy

  • Training for nonprofits & foundations
  • Campaign designs and implementation
  • Highlights: Annie E. Casey and Exponent Philanthropy national advocacy training for foundations and With Common Cause designed a national convening for independent redistricting commissioners in 2023

Public Speaking

  • Democracy: Social capital, civil society, volunteerism, philanthropy
  • Fair Maps 2030: Redistricting, AI & technology, community engagement

Patricia S. Sinay, the founder of Community Investment Strategies (CIS), is a Latina nonprofit & philanthropy expert with nearly 30 years of national & international experience and a(n):

  • Innovative strategic thinker
  • Facilitator
  • Coach & trainer
  • Belonging & equity advocate
  • CA Citizen Redistricting
  • Commissioner & former school board member
  • Tenured UCSD public service lecturer for 13 years
  • Fluently bilingual (Spanish/English)

Approach

  • Mission-driven: A clear understanding of an organization’s mission must be the foundation of all its efforts.
  • Inclusive: Staff, Board members, constituents, investors, and the community are essential stakeholders who must be engaged in the process. Public input does not mean the community must invest hours in it. More efficient and effective ways exist for them to share their ideas and experiences.
  • Participatory: Organizational development is an opportunity for fun, learning, and engagement.
  • Flexible: There is no one way to do anything. Each organization is unique. Each phase of the design or planning process must inform the next steps. Also, as designs are implemented, all (including myself) should be open to learning from mistakes and adjusting strategies to achieve the desired outcome for the community.
  • Practical: All programs and plans must be connected to a strategic plan. The organization’s strategic goals must be front of mind. The organization should live its mission through its actions.
  • Outcome-focused: An organization’s efforts must begin with a clear understanding of the organization’s missions and goals. Goals need to be measurable and meaningful to the community.

Values

  • Belonging
  • Equity
  • Community
  • Curiosity & Fun
  • Flexibility