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Approaching philanthropy from different perspectives may be challenging. However, keeping up with an open-minded approach towards sustainability and connections may turns key issues into crucial changes.

In recent weeks, new consultancies focused on development have started for us. Despite the diversity of the cases – by scope, history, geographical location and positioning, structuring, composition of governance – there are some points that emerge as common factors.

Define the development strategy of an organization starting from the basics: the story of the direct experience of those who have developed their growth strategy with us

Ideas and inspirations emerged from the conversation with Dr. Carlo Mazzola, President and co-founder of the Italian Fondazione Mazzola.

Working with Boards is a significant part of my consultancies. Among the most recent ones, I have developed a Board coaching with a nonprofit organization

It has been a period of virtual meetings on all possible platforms, remote calls with Boards and fundraisers, redesign of training courses to improve the

A few weeks ago I trained a class of the Advanced training course “Talenti per il Fundraising”, run by Fondazione CRT (an Italian Foundation based

This is a different post from the ones we usually publish, in spirit and content.It is a mix of reflections that keep the professional and

I met Helene at IFC, where she lead an interesting session on women leadership … that I could not avoid to participate!Helene is one of

[The quote by Rene Descartes is to underline the trouble to find the alleged perfection (which I think does not belong to Earth … luckily,

I firstly met Penelope, who lives in Arizona, a few years ago. After a few months of mutual “discovery”, we decide to become professional partners

This is not a typical post.In fact, technically speaking, it’s not a post at all. More than anything, it is a collection of remarks –

As we said from the start, we couldn’t stop after the first “collection”. Because certain remarks not only recur, they are symptoms: not of a

The only right answer – just to eliminate any doubts – is: yes, the board (the directors) should put fundraising at the heart of their

Community Foundations are recently created philanthropic intermediaries, which, conceptually speaking, are one of the most interesting new developments in local community-based philanthropy of the last

The question is: how do you create a board of directors that is present, active and engaged? Picking up from the first part of the

A board of directors that “works” is the main key to development – for fundraising, and for organisations in general.We’ve said it before, and we

I want to start with a simple observation based on my experience over the years, which may not be immediately obvious: if a director doesn’t

I asked Stefano*, a leading fundraising expert (President of the Associazione Festival del Fundraising and winner of the 2014 Global Fundraising Award) – follow him

Answers to the typical, very typical question “who are the members of the board of directors?” are many and varied. I don’t want to mention

We’d been thinking for a while about sharing our experiences, thoughts and ideas from our work over the last 7 years with the boards of