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Many U.S. religious congregations currently are entering their annual fall fundraising and budget-planning season with uncertainty about their finances and reopening plans as the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn continue, according to a new survey of congregational leaders conducted by Lake Institute on Faith + Giving. The report examines trends in giving and participating in congregations, as well as how congregations are managing their finances and responding to the impact of the pandemic, and what they anticipate for 2021.

A new report from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI), COVID-19, Generosity, and Gender: How Giving Changed During the Early Months of a Global Pandemic, explores how men and women gave in response to the pandemic and how their overall giving changed in spring 2020. The findings signal the growing prevalence of new, more expansive forms of philanthropy.

The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis today announced a new $1.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funding will fuel research on women’s giving both domestically and globally, and support WPI’s work to empower organizations, donors and fundraisers to put research insights into practice.

The Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis will offer a Fellowship in Muslim Philanthropic and Humanitarian Studies in collaboration with the Zakat Foundation Institute (ZFI) beginning in the fall 2020 semester, school officials announced today.

COVID-19 relief funds at local United Ways and community foundations across the United States raised more than $1.05 billion and distributed at least $589 million to financially vulnerable individuals and nonprofits leading the pandemic response in their communities as of June 30, research led by Laurie Paarlberg, Ph.D., of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds. Paarlberg's team identified 1,119 such organizations supporting COVID-19 funds, 244 of which are jointly supported in partnership with at least one other neighboring United Way or community foundation. They are seeking the public's help to identify additional such funds. The project includes interactive maps.

Muslim American nonprofit organizations in several areas of the U.S. will be better equipped to collaborate and raise funds in support of their missions as a result of a generous gift from the Waraich Family Fund to the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis. The gift creates and supports the Community Collaboration Initiative (CCI) of the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) at the school. The CCI is a three-year project that will enable 25 Muslim American nonprofits in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, California and Washington, DC, to acquire additional knowledge and training that will help them further serve their local communities and carry out their work more effectively.

Amir Pasic, Ph.D.

A new online class on the COVID-19 crisis and what it and other crises mean for philanthropy will be offered this fall by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis. The eight-week course, which will be taught by Amir Pasic, Ph.D., the Eugene R. Tempel Dean of the school, will take a deeper dive into the roles of philanthropy in crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial awakening following George Floyd’s killing. How do crises affect philanthropy and nonprofit organizations, and what role does philanthropy play in society before, during and after such crises?