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Students with financial need will be able to earn degrees in philanthropic studies and pursue the careers of their choice because of a $5 million gift to the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy from anonymous donors. Among the largest gifts ever made to the world’s first school of philanthropy, it will help prepare new leaders to serve in philanthropic and nonprofit roles by providing undergraduate and graduate scholarships at the school.

Lauren Dula

Lauren Dula, a doctoral candidate in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, is the recipient of the 2017 Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, WPI officials announced today. The award will help Dula complete her dissertation on how the gender composition of grant-making nonprofit boards of directors and executive leadership shape the organization’s performance.

Janice Gow Pettey and Ted Grossnickle

Two expert fundraisers who have significantly advanced the fundraising profession nationwide will be honored with the Henry A. Rosso Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Ethical Fund Raising by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Janice Gow Pettey, Ed.D., principal and founder of J.G. Pettey & Associates, and Ted Grossnickle, CFRE, senior consultant and founder of Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates, Inc., (JGA) are being recognized for lifelong dedication to emphasizing philanthropy's ethics and values, acting as a mentor to perpetuate and invigorate philanthropic traditions, and noted leadership in a long, productive career of distinction.

American individuals, estates, foundations and corporations contributed an estimated $390.05 billion to U.S. charities in 2016, according to Giving USA 2017: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2016, released today. Total giving rose 2.7 percent in current dollars (1.4 percent adjusted for inflation) from the revised estimate of $379.89 billion for total giving in 2015. Giving USA, the longest-running and most comprehensive report of its kind in America, is published by Giving USA Foundation, a public service initiative of The Giving Institute. It is researched and written by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

Andrew Jungclaus

The Lake Institute on Faith + Giving, a part of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has awarded its 2017-2018 Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $22,000 to Andrew Jungclaus, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. Jungclaus’ research offers a new approach to understanding ongoing discussions regarding the relationship between private wealth and public power. His dissertation, “True Philanthropy”: A Religion History of the Modern Non-Profit Foundation examines the role of religious belief in shaping early twentieth-century American market structures and conceptions of the public good.

The most recent update of the Human Needs Index (HNI), a joint project between The Salvation Army and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, reveals that the level of American need in 2016 (1.239) remained fairly stable compared with 2015 (1.245). In the past decade, the HNI reached its highest level in 2012 (1.331). Several states, however, continue to struggle at levels of need that are above the national average.

Tax policy changes proposed by Congress and the Administration would reduce charitable giving by up to $13.1 billion, new research conducted by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy indicates. Researchers also found that adding a charitable deduction for non-itemizing taxpayers to the policy proposals would likely more than offset the loss in charitable giving from the proposals and generate up to $4.8 billion in additional charitable giving.

From community building to conservation, humanitarian aid to health access and environmentalism to economic development—just to name a few career paths—the 2017 graduates of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy are ready to put their education to work.