Sean Coffey Email & Phone Number

I oversee CPL’s research releases, manage media relations, and direct CPL’s digital communications.

San Francisco Bay Area

At CalNonprofits, I reinvigorated the communications strategy to attract new nonprofit member organizations, better engage our existing supporters, and strengthen our advocacy and policy campaigns.

San Francisco Bay Area

My communications work ensured that CRC's experts, research, and advocacy campaigns were cited in over 100 unique media citations each year. At CRC, I helped write, edit, and place Op-Eds in American Banker, The Hill, The San Jose Mercury News, HousingWire, LA Daily News, Capital & Main, CA Progress Report, Rooflines, San Diego Free Press and TruthOut. In.

San Jose

I managed day-to-day operations of a coalition-led foreclosure prevention program serving San Jose and Sunnyvale. Responsibilities included program development, management of volunteers, marketing of the program to potential clients, quarterly reporting, and managing a steering committee of coalition members.

At the National Center on Caregiving, I wrote a bi‐monthly newsletter for leaders in the aging and disability world (Caregiving PolicyDigest) and created a new annual policy report I envisioned, "Family Caregiving: Year in Review." (2010 and 2011). I monitored legislation at the state and federal levels around issues important to family caregivers.

• Re-structured program in the midst of foreclosure crisis to meet high demand for services.
• Taught a bi-monthly foreclosure class to over 250 homeowners; created a Web site that centralized information helpful for homeowners facing foreclosure.
• Managed 4 staff members, instituted quarterly reviews and increased staff development.
• Submitted monthly, quarterly, and end-of-grant reports to funders; wrote and assisted with successful grant applications totaling over $100,000.

• Worked with local government leaders on the first in-depth analysis of the state’s first two tax-increment financed (TIF) projects; analyzed contracts and bond offerings of the projects to create a TIF Financing.
• Summarized academic research on methods of elections (at-large vs. district; partisan vs. non-partisan; run-off vs. plurality) and form of government (council manager vs. mayor council) for local government leaders who.

• Monitored legislation affecting low and middle-income taxpayers; provided administrative support for successful campaign to pass a state EITC.
• Wrote and researched reports on decreasing affordability of community college for adults and policy models to reduce property tax burden on poor, elderly, and disabled.

Washington, DC

I was selected for a nationally competitive one-year fellowship focused on innovative, sustainable policy solutions for addressing domestic poverty. I staffed a coalition of community leaders to formulate a three-year food security plan for Miami Dade County and assisted with outreach for the Greater Miami Prosperity Campaign.I authored "Hungry in Florida.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

Master, Public Administration

I was awarded full tuition waivers and research assistantships in development and in local government law at a nationally-ranked school of.

Financial Planning