Similar to their for profit cousins, incubators in the social sector tend to have focus areas – like education and health access – as each industry demands its own expertise. They may also have size and possibly geographic emphases that should match your start up. Some prefer for the start up to be sufficiently far…
Incubators have long been in existence in the business world and with the explosion of tech startups, incubators have been even more omnipresent. For those unfamiliar with the idea, incubators in this context, incubate neonate ideas, companies, and/or founders. In the social sector, the concept is still gaining traction though there are several players, both…
Technology startups are constantly in the news for some superlative or the other – their sky high valuation, their exponential user growth, or their who’s who of investors. But frequently left out of the conversation are women; not only in regards to leadership roles, but also as employees, and targeted users and clients of the…
Starfish Impact’s Founder, Marta Gazzera Ferro, was recently interviewed by Kristen Oliveri for Institutional Investor’s Family Office Network, a private online community for the world’s wealthiest single family offices. Though their content is limited to members, we are happy to cross post the feature for our readers entitled, ‘Finding Philanthropy: Making the Most of Your Impact’.
There are a number of wonderful nonprofits that focus on a wide range of issues that support children. In this post, we are sharing just a few community-based organizations that support children’s causes that we think are worth learning more about and are located in cities where Starfish Impact has offices. Based in Los…
The team at Starfish Impact is often asked to by nonprofits to help them find good Board members, and by individuals to help them find meaningful Board positions. We love being the connector and are always happy to connect our friends. (In fact, contact us here if you fall into either of those categories.) But we also are asked a lot of the same questions by younger professionals who are looking to join their first nonprofit Board. In this post, we are sharing the three questions that we always ask to start these conversations with young professionals ready to join a nonprofit Board.