David Salinas

Director of Development at LGBTQ Community Center of the Desert

David Salinas joins The Center with 20-plus years of senior strategic leadership focus in sponsor-donor support development and marketing, having generated major revenue streams through creating/driving brand awareness strategies, radicalizing experiential marketing, and crafting transformative partnerships.

For the past 11 years, David was the Senior Director of Events and Marketing for the GENYOUth Foundation out of New York – a nationally recognized youth wellness organization with a mission centered on creating healthy school communities by empowering students and providing the resources for youth to build healthy, high-achieving futures. David spearheaded GENYOUth’s marketing, events, and development efforts and was the executive producer of GENYOUth’s Taste of the NFL, an annual charitable fundraising event of the NFL’s Super Bowl weekend. David also produced GENYOUth’s annual Gala, the organization’s most important fundraiser of the year. Prior to GENYOUth, David managed the account marketing team for a promotional-communications agency in Chicago for 14 years creating and field-activating marketing campaigns for consumer-packaged goods.

Timeline

  • Director of Development

    Current role

  • Major Gifts Officer

  • Interim Director of Development

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