Contributor

Derrick Feldmann

Researcher, Author and Speaker

Derrick Feldmann is a sought-after speaker, researcher and advisor for cause and corporate social responsibility engagement. He is the lead researcher of the Millennial Impact Project, a multi-year study of how the next generation of supporters and consumers engage with causes. Derrick is president of Achieve, an agency for causes specializing in cause engagement and market research based in Indianapolis and West Palm Beach. Derrick founded Achieve to help causes and companies address their most pressing issues as an advisory, through audience research (internal and external) and with data-driven awareness/fundraising campaigns. Derrick is the author of Social Movements For Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change and co-author of Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement. Derrick is on the Leadership Faculty of the Points of Light Corporate Institute, a guest lecturer for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, and a member of the advisory boards of the Ad Council and Truth Initiative. He is a board trustee for Learning to Give and on the board of visitors for the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University.