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Page 1 — Home (the router: serves all three audiences)
Strategy · Capital · Execution
Helping mission-driven work get funded — and get done.
Whether you're a funder, a nonprofit, or a founder, IKA assembles the right strategy, the right capital, and the right people around your goal — and stays through implementation. We work across philanthropy, nonprofits, and ventures, so we can reach blended, cross-sector solutions a single-lane advisor can't.
For funders and family offices who want their giving to go further. We design giving strategies, source and vet opportunities, and build the structures that turn capital into measurable impact.
For mission-driven organizations that need to get stronger and better funded. We sharpen strategy, formalize governance, and connect you to the donors and networks that help you grow.
For mission-aligned businesses that need capital, expertise, and the right partners to scale. We help entrepreneurs sharpen their story, structure their raise, and connect to aligned investors and cross-sector partners.
A team built around your problem — not an org chart
Every engagement gets a purpose-built team. We pull the right specialists from our private network — built environment, impact investing, governance, go-to-market, market entry — and assemble them around your specific goal, then manage the work through to results.
Because we work across philanthropy, nonprofits, and ventures at once, that team can reach solutions a single-lane firm can't: a foundation's grant that de-risks a venture, a nonprofit mission that unlocks blended capital, a technology that advances a funder's goals.
Our Team
A senior partner leads every engagement, backed by a private network of specialists matched to your goal.
Built environmentLifestyle / REImpact investingIndia marketsGreen building+ more
For funders, family offices, and foundations who want their giving to go further.
What we do
The best intentions stall without a clear strategy, vetted opportunities, and the right structures to deliver. IKA helps funders turn capital into measurable impact — and because we also work across nonprofits and ventures, we can point your giving toward blended, cross-sector solutions most advisors never see.
Philanthropic strategy and giving plans
Sourcing, vetting, and due diligence on opportunities
Fund design and management — creating and running philanthropic funds
Blended-capital and impact-investment structuring
Warm introductions across our funder and family-office network
How we engage
Vision
Clarify your goals and define the impact you want to create.
Plan
Source and diligence opportunities; design the giving structure.
Implement
Deploy capital, make introductions, and track results.
Representative work
P150 NETWORK
P150 family-office network
Warm introductions into a network of ~500 family-office advisors.
GFG
Global Forest Generation
Donor diversification and funder strategy for a conservation nonprofit.
For mission-driven organizations that need to get stronger — and better funded.
What we do
Great missions often outgrow the organizations built around them. IKA helps nonprofits close that gap — diversifying donors, formalizing governance, sharpening programs, and opening doors to the funders who can take the work to scale. We bring both the strategy and the relationships to make it stick.
Fundraising strategy and donor diversification
Governance and organizational formalization
Program development and impact measurement
Board development and major-gifts infrastructure
Access to our funder, foundation, and family-office networks
How we engage
Vision
Assess where the organization is and where it needs to be.
Plan
Build the fundraising, governance, and program roadmap.
Implement
Make funder introductions and stand up the infrastructure.
Representative work
GFG
Global Forest Generation
"Path of Water" repositioning, governance, and donor diversification.
For mission-aligned businesses that need capital, expertise, and the right partners to scale.
What we do
The best mission-driven businesses still struggle to find capital that understands them — and investors struggle to find ventures they can trust. IKA sits in that gap, helping entrepreneurs sharpen their story, structure their raise, and connect to aligned investors and cross-sector partners.
This work operates at arm's length from our advisory practice — so we can open doors and structure connections while keeping clear lines around any equity involvement.
Investor–entrepreneur matching and capital introductions
Strategic positioning — translating technical stories into investable impact narratives
Cross-sector partnerships, philanthropic and corporate
Advisory on structure, go-to-market, and growth
Access to specialized operators across our network
How we engage
Vision
Sharpen the impact thesis and the story investors need to hear.
Plan
Structure the raise and identify aligned capital and partners.
Implement
Make introductions and bring in operators to help execute.
Representative work
CYTOKIND
Cytokind
Phototherapy venture — positioning and growth support.
BRAINSAVERS
BrainSavers
Senior brain-fitness venture — licensing and market expansion.
Page 5 — Our Team (partners + private specialist network)
The team behind your engagement
A senior partner owns every engagement end to end. Behind them sits a private network of specialists we match to your goal — so you get exactly the expertise your project needs, and a single point of accountability throughout.
Lubna Dajani is a futurist and systems architect with three decades at the frontier of technology, ethics, and human dignity. Her expertise spans ethical AI, digital identity, and the infrastructure of trust, and she has advised global enterprises — including Microsoft, GE, AT&T, and PwC — on how emerging technology reshapes markets and society. She is the founder of Allternet, a senior member of the IEEE, and a W3C Invited Expert who helps shape the international standards for responsible AI. For IKA, Lubna brings a rare pairing: deep technical command of AI and a systems-level view of how those forces reshape the businesses and communities the firm advises.
Yonatan Glaser is the founder and CEO of un-stuck, a leadership and organizational-development practice built around a "Four Intelligences" model that helps leaders close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. He brings a background in coaching, strategy, and mission-driven institution-building. At IKA, Yonatan leads international business development — opening market relationships in India and structuring cross-border deals — pairing a strategist's eye for deal structure with a coach's instinct for the people and partnerships that make a venture hold together.
Muguette Petoe builds lifestyle brands for real estate, helping developers move beyond square footage into experience — designing self-sufficient communities and "farm-hoods" where wellness, hospitality, and local production are part of the offering rather than amenities bolted on. Her work centers on revenue diversification — spas, retail, food, and programming that give a property multiple income streams and a distinct identity. Through SEED ONE, her sustainability-focused venture, she pairs creative direction with business development for clients entering lifestyle-driven markets.
Stephen Shaff is a social entrepreneur who works at the seam where real estate, community development, and nonprofit capital meet. As founder of Community Vision Solutions, he has helped lead more than $100 million in housing and community-development efforts across under-served Washington, DC neighborhoods, with hands-on command of every phase of real-estate investment, development, finance, and management. He has founded, funded, and served on the boards of nonprofits working on anti-poverty, arts, and environmental causes — and brings IKA an operator's view of how mission and real-estate capital actually come together on the ground.
Kiran Waters is a built-environment consultant who designs spaces around how people actually feel and perform in them. Through Element Sunlight Properties, she works across air quality, acoustics, circadian lighting, and materiality — from master planning down to the granular detail — with productivity, wellness, and return on investment as the measures that matter. Kiran helps IKA's real-estate and institutional clients treat healthy, high-performing buildings as an investment thesis rather than a nicety.
Donnetta Campbell is a pioneer in executive personal branding and the founder and CEO of The Social Architects. She has built influential profiles and peer communities for C-suite leaders at companies including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — driving billions of impressions through authentic storytelling rather than broadcast. With IKA, Donnetta helps the firm's principals and clients turn credibility into reach, building the thought leadership and visibility that mission-driven work depends on.
Steven Keays is a professional engineer and four-decade veteran of major capital projects across energy, infrastructure, aerospace, and oil & gas. As founder and CEO of KPO Group, he helps visionaries secure the capital and certainty to carry ambitious, complex projects from idea to roll-out, and is the author of Investment-Centric Project Management. For IKA, Steven brings deep command of how large, capital-intensive ventures actually get financed, de-risked, and built.
Liz Rubin is a documentary filmmaker and the founder, CEO, and creative director of Ecodeo, a B Corp climate-communications and video studio that turns climate solutions into stories people actually watch. Her work spans clean energy, conservation, and climate justice for mission-driven organizations and the United Nations. With IKA, Liz brings the storytelling firepower to make complex environmental work legible and compelling to the funders and audiences it needs to reach.
Robert Rubinstein is an impact-investing pioneer and one of the field's most connected conveners. He is the founder and chairman of TBLI Group (Triple Bottom Line Investing), which for three decades has brought together institutional investors, family offices, and fund managers around sustainable and ESG investing through its global conferences and network. At IKA, Robert leads investor relationships and capital introductions — opening doors to impact investors and family offices across Europe and beyond for the firm's climate, conservation, and regenerative-venture clients.
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Page 6 — Our Work (case studies, tagged by pillar so each audience finds relevant proof)
Our Work
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Global Forest Generation Non-Profit
Advising the nonprofit behind Acción Andina — the largest Indigenous-led effort to restore the high Andean forests that secure freshwater for 236 cities. IKA is building the major-gifts infrastructure and donor diversification to scale the work beyond project grants.
Cytokind Ventures
A medical-device venture bringing clinically validated narrowband UV light therapy directly to patients. IKA helped shape the impact narrative and connect the company to mission-aligned capital and clinical partners, and provided a fractional senior manager to support operations.
BrainSavers Ventures
A senior brain-fitness program licensed to wellness and care providers nationwide. IKA supports positioning and partnership development as the model expands to new licensed locations, and provided a fractional senior manager to support operations.
GreenStreet Global Ventures
A sustainable-building and green-infrastructure venture. IKA advises on strategy and impact positioning, with Iva Kaufman serving on the company's board.
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Perspectives from the intersection of philanthropy, nonprofits, and mission-driven ventures — plus the IKA newsletter. Where we share what we're learning about turning capital into measurable good.
Cross-Sector
Featured · Cross-Sector Thesis
The intersection is the opportunity
The next wave of impact won't come from philanthropy, nonprofits, or ventures working alone — it will come from treating them as one system. A look at why the most durable solutions are blended, and how a funder, a nonprofit, and a startup can solve together what none could solve apart.
An operator's case for earned revenue as the truest form of impact insurance — and why a mission that runs only on grants is on a treadmill, not a foundation.
From carbon to catchments — why freshwater security is becoming the defining environmental investment, and what restoration at the source actually requires.
Iva Kaufman · 4 min read
Ventures
Healthy buildings, measurable returns
The ROI case for designing spaces around human well-being — air, acoustics, light, and the numbers that make wellness a business decision.
Newsletter
Better Health & Well-being
IKA's recurring newsletter on health, longevity, and well-being — curated research and practical takeaways, delivered to your inbox.
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Page 8 — About (the firm's story, philosophy, and what makes the three-pillar model work)
About the firm
Impact compounds when worlds connect.
Iva Kaufman Associates is a boutique advisory firm working at the intersection of philanthropy, nonprofits, and mission-driven ventures.
Who we are
Most advisors live in one lane — a foundation consultant who never touches a startup, a venture firm that never thinks about a grant. IKA was built differently. We advise funders on where their capital can do the most good, help nonprofits build the strategy and infrastructure to scale, and work alongside ventures solving real problems in health, sustainability, and community well-being.
Because we operate across all three, we see the connections others miss — the funder who should meet a venture, the nonprofit model that a family office has been waiting to back. That cross-sector vantage point is the firm's real product.
What guides us
Impact over activity
We measure success by outcomes that matter, not motion. Every engagement ties back to measurable good.
Cross-sector by design
Philanthropy, nonprofits, and ventures are one system. We build solutions that draw on all three.
Diligence first
We vet opportunities rigorously before we attach our name — and yours — to them.
Relationships, not transactions
We work with a focused set of clients each year so the work — and the trust — runs deep.
Aligned to the SDGs
Our work maps to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 agenda for people and planet.
A deployable network
Behind the firm sits a bench of specialists and a funder network we can bring to any engagement.
Leadership
Iva KaufmanFounder & Principal
Iva founded the firm to connect capital, cause, and enterprise — and leads its work across all three pillars.
Iva works alongside a network of associates and specialists. Meet the network →
Page 9 — Contact / Work With Us (intake built on the qualification criteria)
Form fields map to the meeting's intake criteria: due diligence · perceived need · maturity/capacity — so IKA can triage before a call.
Tell us about your project
We work with a focused set of funders, nonprofits, and ventures each year. Tell us a little about what you're trying to do and where it stands — we'll follow up to see if there's a fit.
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Iva Kaufman Associates
For partnership and engagement inquiries, reach Iva directly.
917.553.3281
Iva Kaufman — Founder & Principal
Craig Ullman — Partner
