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A new report from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute examines how individuals use impact investing and whether women and men do so differently. The study finds that while both men and women embrace impact investing as a way to achieve social and financial returns, households where men make charitable giving decisions – either as single men, or as sole deciders within their marriages – are more likely to replace charitable giving with impact investing.

Debra Mesch

Debra Mesch, Ph.D., director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) and the Eileen Lamb O’Gara Chair in Women’s Philanthropy, will step down from the director role that she has held for 10 years to concentrate full time on research and teaching about gender and philanthropy effective August 1, 2018. WPI will conduct a national search for a full-time director.

At a public conversation in Indianapolis on Thursday, May 17, 2018, two national experts will explore the intersection of money, religion and philanthropy and the issues that may define how they interact in the future. Jim Hudnut-Buemler is the Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Vanderbilt University. David Hammack is the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at Case Western University

Dr. William Enright

Nine new Ph.D.s in Philanthropic Studies were awarded to graduates of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis this weekend, the largest number of doctorates to be presented at one time in the school’s history. In all, 62 women and men earned degrees or certificates from the world’s first school dedicated to research and teaching about philanthropy.

2018 Global Philanthropy Environment Index

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis today released the 2018 Global Philanthropy Environment Index, the first such report since 2015. It is the world’s most comprehensive initiative to equip policy makers, philanthropic and nonprofit leaders, the business community and the public with a clear understanding of the environment for global philanthropy.

Donor-advised funds are one of the fastest-growing vehicles for charitable giving, but the question of where donor-advised fund grant dollars go has remained largely unanswered until now. A new report is the first to uncover these answers. Among other findings, it identifies education, religion and public-society benefit organizations as the types of nonprofits that attracted the most donor-advised fund grant dollars, based on a sample of donor-advised fund sponsoring organizations from 2012 to 2015.