Francesca Pecoraro, Alex Turrini, and Mark Volpe are the authors of Fundraising for the Arts, published in 2023 by Bocconi University Press. Mark Volpe was president and chief executive officer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2021. Prior to Boston, Volpe held leadership positions with the orchestras of Detroit, Minnesota, and Baltimore. Volpe has advised orchestras and music festivals in the United States and Europe and lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, the University of Rochester, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Miami. Francesca Pecoraro has worked since 2009 in the Marketing and Audience Development Department of Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Italy), with specific responsibility for marketing and sales, business analytics and support for management control. After completing her Bocconi University MSc in Economics and Management for the Performing Arts in 2008, Pecoraro worked in digital marketing and community management for the Marketing Department of Piccolo Teatro in Milan and collaborated with performing arts festivals. Alex Turrini is associate professor in public and non-profit management and Director of the MSc in Arts and Cultural Management at Bocconi University, Milan. He has been visiting chair of the Southern Methodist University Meadows Division of Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship as well as visiting professor in arts management and cultural policy at SMU Meadows and Cox School of Business (Dallas, TX).