Service
Teaching in the Philippines shaped her mission-first orientation.
About Us
Founded by an educator who understands the work from the inside.
Waypoint Mission Partners was founded by Sarina Randazzo to help schools, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations build the advancement systems their missions need.
Founder and CEO
Sarina Randazzo
Sarina has spent her career in education and service. She began as a U.S. Peace Corps teacher in the Philippines before continuing her work as a private school teacher, founding charter school teacher in inner-city Milwaukee, and private school principal. She also serves on the board of a 501(c)(3).
Her work has given her firsthand insight into the pressure schools, nonprofits, and faith-based organizations face when mission is strong but advancement structure is limited.
Through Waypoint, Sarina helps organizations build practical systems for donor communication, stewardship, board support, campaigns, and sustainable funding.
Founder story
Sarina saw the same pattern across mission-driven work.
Schools and nonprofits often have committed staff, generous families, loyal supporters, and board members who want to help. What they often lack is a clear advancement system that keeps donor communication, stewardship, board participation, campaign planning, and follow-up moving across the year.
Stewardship happens when there’s time. Campaigns get planned under pressure. Events raise money, but the follow-up fades. Board members care, but they’re not always given a useful role. Donors give, but they don’t always hear what their gift made possible.
Peace CorpsTeacher in the Philippines
EducationPrivate school teacher and founding charter school teacher in inner-city Milwaukee
LeadershipPrivate school principal
GovernanceBoard member for a 501(c)(3)
Classroom
Private and charter school work gave her firsthand school context.
Principal
School leadership exposed the real capacity limits staff carry.
Board
Nonprofit board service grounds the work in stewardship and accountability.
Our story
Waypoint grew out of a simple observation: many mission-driven organizations have more trust than structure.
The relationships are already there. Families, board members, donors, and staff all care, and the mission is worth supporting. What usually needs work is the funding process behind it.
Questions Waypoint helps answer
- Who should hear from the organization before the next ask?
- What should happen after an event?
- How should sponsors be thanked and renewed?
- What role should the board play?
- Who owns the next step?
What Waypoint helps build
Waypoint helps turn mission-driven generosity into a steadier advancement rhythm: calendars, donor communication, stewardship touchpoints, board participation, campaign planning, event follow-up, and simple tracking that staff and volunteers can keep using.