Marshela Salgado

Title updated to formally reflect expanded leadership over staff, operations, and organizational strategy assumed over time.

• Partner with the CEO and Board to design and execute the annual strategic planning cycle, translating vision into actionable goals, budget-aligned priorities, and sustainable growth.
• Provide strategic leadership to ministry, program, and administrative teams while serving as a key thought partner to the Senior Minister & CEO on organizational priorities and execution.
• Direct all day-to-day operations, ensuring staff, systems, and resources are aligned to advance organizational goals and mission impact.
• Identify trends and assessed opportunities to improve processes and execution.
• Work with partner organizations and funders to design impact metrics that reflect community needs, program effectiveness, and mission alignment.
• Work with CEO and Board Treasurer to assess budgets, align spending with priorities, and ensure responsible use of organizational resources.

• Oversee day-to-day organizational operations, aligning staff, systems, and resources to advance strategic goals and mission impact.
• Lead and supervise a six-member staff team across programs and operations, fostering collaboration, accountability, and professional growth.
• Collaborate with the Senior Minister/CEO to shape organizational strategy, strengthen internal systems, and support leadership decision-making.
• Developed reports and narrative materials that communicate organizational progress, outcomes, and impact.
• Direct youth-focused educational initiatives while overseeing the planning and execution of complex service-learning programs, including budgeting, logistics, risk management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Partnered with the Senior Minister to oversee the development of new community initiatives, including the Border Dignity Project, providing supervision and strategic support for cross-border partnerships, site visits, budgeting, and fundraising.
• Represent the organization in community partnerships, building relationships that advance collaboration, visibility, and mission impact.

• Co-founded and launched a youth-focused nonprofit collective, leading the establishment of 501(c)(3) status and building foundational governance and operational structures.
• Designed the organization through community-centered listening sessions with youth and families, ensuring programs and priorities reflected participant voice and needs.
• Cultivated partnerships with churches and youth-serving organizations to grow the collective, expand reach, and strengthen collaborative programming.
• Co-developed curriculum in collaboration with volunteers, integrating youth development, education, and inclusive values.
• Transitioned from Co-Founder to Board Chair to support organizational sustainability, strengthen governance, and guide long-term strategy.

• Led operational, staffing, and program strategy for children’s and youth ministries, ensuring consistent, mission-aligned delivery across in-person and virtual environments.
• Modernized volunteer onboarding, safety, and consent systems, strengthening compliance, risk management, and participant protection.
• Built community partnerships and directed experiential learning initiatives, including annual educational and service-learning programs and innovative digital programming during the COVID-19 transition.

• Partnered with the President and served as a key member of the senior leadership team, contributing to organizational strategy and supporting the organization’s growth through its first seven years of staff hiring, development, and management.
• Led staff development and performance management by setting clear goals, establishing priorities, and conducting regular evaluations to support accountability, growth, and organizational effectiveness.
• Led the development and execution of integrated marketing, public relations, and communications strategies that increased organizational visibility, strengthened donor engagement, and supported community impact.
• Managed board-level engagement with prominent community leaders and public figures, strengthening relationships that resulted in increased giving and sustained organizational support.
• Planned and executed annual fundraising event, overseeing end-to-end event strategy, vendor management, production logistics, VIP engagement, and multimedia presentations to celebrate student achievement and support organizational fundraising goals.

• Directed a year-round fundraising and event strategy for the San Diego Race to Empower, overseeing logistics, vendor and venue contracts, volunteer management, sponsorship development, and registration systems.
• Served as a primary public-facing representative and liaison, building relationships with community partners, sponsors, and vendors while ensuring smooth execution and high-quality participant experience.
• Assessed and improved event planning processes and produced data-informed reports on participation, performance, and outcomes for regional and national leadership.

• Partnered with the President across the full grantmaking lifecycle, supporting strategy, application review, due diligence, site visits, monitoring, and grant closeout, while identifying new funding and program opportunities through community research and relationship-building.
• Led organizational operations and administrative systems, overseeing office processes, vendor relationships, financial transactions, records management, and compliance to ensure efficient and well-governed day-to-day operations.
• Supervised a program assistant and volunteer base, planned and executed large-scale donor and community events, and represented the foundation externally—building relationships with nonprofit leaders, funders, and community partners across San Diego County.