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The Women’s Philanthropy Institute today released its second annual Women & Girls Index (WGI), the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to women’s and girls’ causes in the United States. This year’s report offers the first multi-year look at how philanthropic support for women’s and girls’ organizations has changed in recent years.
A generous gift from philanthropists Jerre and Mary Joy Stead will allow the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis to uncover new insights to increase understanding of philanthropy and to help nonprofits and donors strengthen the way they carry out their philanthropy. The gift will help support the school's groundbreaking research and enable the new knowledge generated to be shared widely.
Respected philanthropy scholar Una Osili, Ph.D., has been appointed Efroymson Chair in Philanthropy at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis, school officials announced today. Osili is Associate Dean for Research and International Programs and Dean’s Fellow for the Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at the school. She also is Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies. She will continue to serve in those roles.
The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis today released the 2020 Global Philanthropy Tracker (GPT), the first such report since 2016. With data from 47 countries and economies across the globe, it is the world’s most holistic measure of the scope and magnitude of cross-border philanthropy. The GPT also compares cross-border philanthropy to three other cross-border financial resource flows, including official development assistance (ODA) from government, private capital investment, and remittances.
A new report published by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis and funded by a grant from Schwab Charitable examines nonprofit organizations’ perceptions of donor-advised funds (DAFs) and how nonprofits solicit, manage and steward DAF gifts. The report includes recommendations for both nonprofits and DAF sponsoring organizations to improve their collaboration in order to enhance and expand charitable giving.
Faculty members of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis are being honored with four prestigious awards from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Tyrone Freeman, David King and Shariq Siddiqui will be honored for their research during the association’s national conference Nov. 12-14. ARNOVA is a leading network of researchers, university faculty and practice leaders who focus on these subjects in their teaching, writing and policy work.
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 study by Dr. Sara Konrath of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis, published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, found that more attractive people are more likely to be givers, and givers are rated as more attractive.
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.
Indiana’s overall health care industry grew by 45% between 1995 and 2018 to reach almost 380,000 paid employees in 2018, according to a new Indiana University report. The nonprofit portion of the overall health care industry grew even more rapidly — up by 62% — accounting for 43% of total employment in the industry in 2018.
