Miguel M. Salinas Email & Phone Number

Miguel is a Program Officer for the Local Grantmaking Program at the Packard Foundation responsible for the program’s Equity in Grantmaking strategy and the Thriving Youth portfolios that cover San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Prior to the Packard Foundation, Miguel was senior manager of Global Giving at Adobe and program director for the Adobe Foundation. He led the team responsible for the strategic planning and day-to-day operations for $10 million in charitable investments worldwide on behalf of Adobe and the Adobe Foundation. Miguel was lead project manager for the visioning and creation of the Adobe Youth Voices in 2006 which focused on igniting the creative confidence in youth from underserved communities and engaged more than 150,000 youth and more than 4,000 educators through a network of more than 1,200 schools and out-of-school sites in 55 countries.Before Adobe he was communications director for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, a national educational nonprofit focused on supporting Latino students to seek and attain a college degree. He has managed a grants portfolio and strategic communications for local and global philanthropy programs at Intel Corporation. Miguel began his career as a journalist, covering crime, government and education for various publications in Texas and California.Miguel has been a speaker and panelist on youth education and philanthropy issues. He was the 2011 James C. Bowling Executive-in-Residence at the School of Journalism and Telecommunications, University of Kentucky, and was invited to offer an intervention before the United Nations General Assembly at a High-Level Meeting of the UN on Youth.Specialties: International philanthropy program management; global youth education programs; strategic grantmaking and community involvement; strategic communications; Corporate Social Responsibility

Listed skills include Philanthropy, Strategic Communications, and Communications.