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’.
This week, we’re featuring five innovative nonprofit campaigns we love and think you will too! Colorectal cancer awareness and prevention causes have struggled to receive mainstream attention because of the discomfort many people have in acknowledging and discussing it. The Love Your Butt campaign was a ‘cheeky’ way to invite people to talk about the…
#GivingTuesday is growing year over year and this year was no exception. Nonprofits of all sizes, from start up to multinational organizations, take part in #GivingTuesday, and given that over one third of all giving is distributed over the holiday season, we spent some time reviewing the trends we noticed in successful appeals. Challenge matches…
This is our final installment of the three-part blog on philanthropy trends we’re seeing; don’t forget to go back and read our first and second sections if you’ve missed them. Donor Advised Funds. Increasingly, individuals are utilizing donor advised funds in lieu of foundations to address a variety of needs (from anonymity, family generational issues,…
We are continuing our three-part blog on the philanthropy trends we’re seeing, and how nonprofits can best position themselves to take advantage of them. Nonprofit Mergers. There is a tremendous interest from the foundation community in seeing mergers and acquisitions. The Weingart Foundation has led this with the Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative and recently we saw…
By working on both sides of the ‘philanthropy wall’, Starfish Impact team members have the unique ability to understand what nonprofits and their funders want. A common question we get is, ‘what’s coming down the pike in philanthropy?” In this three part post, we’ll describe a few of the philanthropy trends we expect, and how…