Welcome to Zigas and Associates, LLC

Zigas and Associates LLC helps organizations develop sound strategies, build effective leadership, and create innovation that produces results.  Zigas and Associates LLC works with both for profit and nonprofit organizations.  The firm brings to its engagements a robust understanding of organizational growth and development; a deep expertise in how policy and practice interact to create effective results; a passionate commitment to effective strategies that improve peoples’ lives; and a practical, market oriented approach to social ventures.  Read more >>  

About Barry Zigas

With more than 30 years of leadership in diverse roles in housing, community and economic development, Barry Zigas has a unique blend of for-profit and nonprofit experience.  This includes leading organizations and workgroups ranging from more than 200 national and regional staff members as a Senior Vice President at Fannie Mae to leadership of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, with 16 staff.  He has effectively articulated and promoted innovative public policy solutions to pressing social concerns.  Read more >>

Zigas Blog

In a climactic scene of 1974's noir classic "Chinatown,"  Jack Nicholson's character LA private eye Jake Gittes is confronting Faye Dunaway's character Evelyn Cross Mulwray.  Gittes demands that Mulwray explain the identity of the little girl she is trying to spirit out of town. 

"She's my daughter," Mulwray says.  Gittes slaps her hard.

She's my sister," Mulwray says, and Gittes slaps her again.

"She's my daughter."  Slap.  "She's…  Read More...