Exploring Your Giving Potential
NorthStar Asset Management, Inc.® works with clients – some of whom are new to charitable giving and others who have been actively giving for over 50 years – to build a strategic plan that bridges their values and personal resources. We encourage clients to approach their giving in a comprehensive way and to use resources strategically maximizing their personal tax benefit as well as their desired social impact.

Client Philanthropy
NorthStar's clients continue the giving tradition with over 50% of clients making charitable gifts each year and supporting hundreds of organizations. What follows is a small sample of the wide range of innovative organizations clients support.

Asheshi University trains a new generation of ethical and entrepreneurial business leaders in Africa. www.ashesi.org

BalletRox supports health and well being of inner city youth through dance instruction and performance opportunities, including The Urban Nutcracker. www.balletrox.org

Boston Community Capital provides capital to nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurs as a means of building stability and self-sufficiency, required for communities and individuals to achieve their full potential. www.bostoncommunitycapital.org

Boston Women’s Fund is Massachusetts’s oldest women-run foundation raising money from all economic strata to support innovative social change and economic justice projects led by women and girls. www.bostonwomensfund.org

Camp Starfish fosters the success and growth of children with emotional, behavioral, and learning problems through individual attention, structured learning, and fun. www.campstarfish.org

Children's Movement for Creative Expression makes learning come alive for at-risk inner-city children by integrating art, movement, meditation and cooperative learning. www.childrensmovement.org

Common Cause is a non-partisan citizen's lobbying organization promoting open, honest and accountable government. www.commoncause.org

The Farm School places careful mentoring, meaningful work, humor and kindness at the center of its work as it provides educational programs for all age groups and teaches the next generation to be stewards of the earth. www.farmschool.org

Food for Free confronts the contradiction between waste and want in our communities. FFF identifies and recaptures safe, nutritious food that would otherwise be discarded and delivers it for use to shelters.

The Global Environmental Health and Justice Fund at The New World Foundation supports the global environmental health and justice movement – a movement challenging the massive polluting of our world – by providing grants to organizations committed to grassroots organizing, base-building, democratic participation and leadership development.

International Media Project is committed to investigative journalism, in-depth critical analysis, the promotion of civic participation and the dissemination of educational material to the public. www.radioproject.org

Irish Immigration Center helps all newly arriving immigrants adjust to a new land, economically, psychologically, and culturally, not only by meeting basic needs, but also by helping them to become active participants in this society. www.iicenter.org

The New World Foundation supports change from below through community empowerment and democratic participation – specifically building the toxics and environmental justice movements in the United States and environmental justice work internationally. www.newwf.org

Peace Development Fund provides grants, training, and other resources in partnership with communities, organizations, trainers and donors with whom we share a common vision for social change. www.peacefund.org

Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays (PFLAG) promotes the health and well being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through support, education and advocacy. www.pflag.org

Raw Art Works brings art therapy into the streets, public housing, youth incarceration facilities, clinics, soup kitchens, schools and homes. www.rawart.org

Shared Interest is a not-for-profit social investment fund designed to enhance low-income South Africans' access to credit previously denied them because of their race, gender, or income. www.sharedinterest.org

The Southern Center for Human Rights is a small, nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the human and civil rights of poor people in the criminal justice and corrections systems of the South through litigation, education, advocacy, and community involvement.www.schr.org

Stop It Now educates adults about the ways to stop sexual abuse and increases public awareness of the trauma of child sexual abuse. www.stopitnow.com

United for a Fair Economy is a movement support organization founded to provide media capacity, economic literacy education and training resources to organizations and individuals whose work addresses the widening income and asset gap in the United States. www.faireconomy.org

Urban Ecology believes that vibrant, successful cities are not only possible but necessary for the health of society and our planet. We plan and design cities that sustain the people, natural resources, and economy necessary for everyone to thrive. www.urbanecology.org

Verite is an independent, non-profit social auditing and research organization that strives to ensure that people worldwide work under safe, fair and legal working conditions. www.verite.org

Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) is a nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination and justice through education and empowerment of women. WAMM's purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression. www.worldwidewamm.org

If you would like contact information for organizations that is not provided, please call the office.

Corporate Philanthropy
As an organization, NorthStar contributes time and money to many causes. We support organizations that complement and augment our work for social justice and change.

Responsible Wealth, a project of United for a Fair Economy, teaches wealthy individuals how to be a voice for economic social change. NorthStar partners with Responsible Wealth to create change within corporations through shareholder activism and shareholder resolution work. Responsible Wealth members use their unique voices, as large asset holders, to propose changes that will lead to a more fair economy and democratic society. www.responsiblewealth.org

Shareholder Action Network is a clearinghouse of information and analysis on shareholder advocacy that encourages corporate responsibility and enhances shareholder rights. www.shareholderaction.org

NorthStar advocates for gay rights in our work and our giving. Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), www.glad.org, is the organization that argued for equal marriage for lesbians and gays before the Massachusetts courts and continues to support and defend the Court's decision. Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), www.glsen.org, supports students and educators in creating schools that are free from anti-gay bullying, harassment and name-calling. Youth led and adult supported Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Youth (BAGLY), www.bagly.org, provides a safe space for youth to explore their identities.

Like many of you, NorthStar gives locally to support dynamic and vital communities. Boston Women's Fund, www.bostonwomensfund.org, gives grants to innovative organizations run by and for women and girls in Boston. Spontaneous Celebrations, www.spontaneouscelebrations.org, builds community by forging relationships between culturally diverse people through celebration, education, and pageantry.•