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Philanthropist Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today received the Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The Shaw-Hardy Taylor Achievement Award recognizes philanthropists, nonprofit leaders, volunteers, change agents, fundraisers and researchers who have moved women’s philanthropy forward and demonstrated significant impact on the field.

In a year dramatically disrupted by the pandemic, affluent Americans’ generosity didn’t waver, according to preliminary findings from the 2021 Bank of America Study of Philanthropy: Charitable Giving by Affluent Households - Affluent Americans Expand Generosity During the Pandemic. The vast majority of affluent Americans, nearly 90%, gave to charity in 2020. And nearly half (47%) donated to charitable organizations or financially supported individuals or businesses in direct response to the pandemic.

More than two-fifths (43%) of Indiana nonprofits engaged in advocacy and/or public education activities in 2017, according to a new report from Indiana University. Indiana Nonprofits: Advocacy and Political Activity – Practices and Challenges uses data from a 2017 survey (the most recent data available) of 1,036 nonprofits that was conducted by the Indiana Nonprofits Project.

Ashley Enrici, Ph.D.

A new faculty position dedicated to examining issues at the intersection of the environment and philanthropy is expanding the expertise of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis. Ashley Enrici, Ph.D., will serve as the inaugural McKinney Family Fellow of Environmental Resilience and Philanthropy and assistant professor of philanthropic studies at the school.

Research released by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis provides new insights into the use of crowdfunding for charitable giving, focusing on donors who give via crowdfunding and how they differ from traditional charitable donors. The new study, Charitable Crowdfunding: Who Gives, to What, and Why? examines who crowdfunding donors are, their motivations for giving this way, how they are different than more traditional charitable donors, and the activities they support.

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute today released Women Give 2021: How Households Make Giving Decisions, which explores charitable giving decision-making in the general population. The report analyzes the first new data on this topic in 15 years, and finds that 61.5% of couples make giving decisions together — a number that has declined from 73.4% in 2005. When one partner in the household decides, women are more likely to do so.

Connor LaGrange

The Patterson Foundation, in partnership with the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis, has selected Connor LaGrange to become its next Fellow. This is the third year of The Patterson Foundation’s Fellows Program — a year-long opportunity for aspiring philanthropists to gain experience and learn innovative philanthropic principles while contributing to initiatives strengthening people, organizations and communities.