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What if someone gave you $10,000 to give away? That's the challenge students fulfill December 13 when they give three Indianapolis charities grants for programs that prepare underprivileged students for college, including through mentoring and college tours, and help less-fortunate children participate in summer camp. In the hands-on "Learning by Giving" course, students learn the process of giving wisely and making grants, from deciding what community issues to address and writing requests for proposals to conducting site visits, evaluating applications and deciding where to give grant award money.

The length of a university president's time in office, national college rankings and the board's leadership in giving are among the factors that help colleges and universities attract more and larger million-dollar-plus gifts, a new study finds. Million-Dollar-Ready: Assessing the Institutional Factors that Lead to Major Gifts, was conducted by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Johnson Grossnickle and Associates. It examines the characteristics of higher education institutions that consistently attract publicly reported gifts of $1 million or more.

A new Glenn Family Chair in Philanthropy is being established at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Founding Dean Gene Tempel announced today. Dwight F. Burlingame, Ph.D., a pioneer of philanthropy as a field of study, will be the first professor to hold the chair, which is being created through the generosity of The Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation.

Women's leadership in philanthropy today is more visible and widespread than ever before, building on a long history of women as philanthropic leaders and activists for social and philanthropic causes. Understanding the roles and the impact of women in philanthropy and elevating conversation about their leadership is the focus of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy's 2014 national symposium, titled #WomenLeading Philanthropy. The event will be held April 2-3, 2014, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, 301 East North Water St., Chicago.

The first international Million Dollar Donors Report (MDDR) was released today by Coutts and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. It analyzes $1 million-plus giving by donors in 2012 in six regions around the world: the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Middle East (Gulf Cooperation Council nations), China and Hong Kong.

The study examines factors that influence corporations in their decisions to invest in projects, organizations and communities outside the United States. It specifically addresses the nature of corporate-nonprofit partnerships, qualities that companies look for when searching for nonprofit partners and what makes partnerships successful.

INDIANAPOLIS--Gene Tempel, founding dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, has been named the "Influencer of the Year" in the U.S. nonprofit sector by The NonProfit Times, a leading nonprofit sector publication.