Who We Are
Your Nonprofit Is Our Passion
You're ready to change the world. We handle the part that makes people give up.
Cruising Altitude
The Protégé Story
It started with a red hot-air balloon and a stubborn conviction: that the people best suited to run a nonprofit are almost never the people best suited to file for one.
For ten years we operated on word-of-mouth alone. Today Clayton Louis Ferrara presents that same work at the United Nations, the White House East Wing, the Vatican, and the Pontifical Academy of Science — and it is still, at heart, sitting down with one person who has an idea.
Upper Sky
Ready to Launch?
Know Thyself
A nonprofit outlives enthusiasm. Be honest about what you will still care about in five years — that is the mission, not the pitch.
Build a team
Most states require three people to form a nonprofit. Choose them for judgement, not availability.
Longevity of purpose
Organizations that survive their first year are the ones that decided, early, what they would not do.