Tina N. Castro, Cfa is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Avivar Capital. She possess expertise in investments, strategy, finance, strategic planning, leadership and 35 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I have had the opportunity to work with Tina Castro for the past year and half and have been impressed by her steadfast work ethic, creativity, grace under pressure and intellect. Tina, in her role as Director of Mission-Related Investing, developed and implemented The California Endowment's (TCE) mission-related investing strategy. A double bottom-line investment strategy that outlines how a portion of TCE's corpus can be deployed for both a risk adjusted market rate of return and forwards TCE's Building Healthy Communities mission. A "real life" example of this double bottom line strategy is the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative (CHFFI). Tina lead the development and implementation of CHFFI. CHFFI is a, $93 million and growing, public/private partnership loan fund that will finance grocery stores and other forms of fresh food retail and distribution in underserved communities throughout CA. Tina led a diverse group of industry, nonprofit and government actors in the development of CHFFI; researched and adapted the concept of healthy food financing initiatives to the CA context; co-developed a pipeline of deals to fund; marshalled the internal and external resources to build the fund and coordinated the communications strategy. Tina has been a valued colleague and a true innovator in the field of mission-related investing."