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Robert T. Grimm, Jr., is the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award honoree. The Levenson Family Chair in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, Grimm is the founder and director of the university’s award-winning Do Good Institute and Maryland’s Do Good Campus.
Changes to the Giving Landscape finds that the average amount given by donor households remained relatively constant over time, despite the Great Recession. However, the recession fueled a 13 percentage point decrease in the share of U.S. households who gave to charity between 2000 and 2016. This decline in the overall share of households who gave represents 20 million fewer donor households. The report also is among the first to examine in depth the percent of income households across a wide variety of demographic characteristics gave over time.
What will the future of giving in the African American community look like? Where are African American philanthropists giving their resources, and why are they donating to specific causes? Six outstanding leaders from across the U.S. who are working in various ways to reshape black philanthropy will discuss these and other questions during a public conversation in Indianapolis Oct. 17. “Reshaping Black Philanthropy: Inspiring the Next Generation Philanthropists” is presented by the Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy.
The Women’s Philanthropy Institute today released the Women & Girls Index: Measuring Giving to Women’s and Girls’ Causes, which, for the first time, quantifies the number of charities in the United States dedicated to women and girls and the amount of charitable giving they receive. The research report finds these organizations received a collective total of $6.3 billion in charitable contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations in 2016 — 1.6% of all donations made that year.
International philanthropy and how philanthropy is changing will be among the topics discussed by Global Philanthropy Forum Founder and World Affairs Council President Jan Wales is a public conversation on Wed., Sept. 25, in Indianapolis.
More U.S. congregations saw increases in participation and giving than experienced declines, a new study from Lake Institute on Faith + Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis finds. Although fewer Americans are claiming a religious affiliation and the percentage of individuals who are members of a congregation is declining, these findings only tell part of the story. The National Study of Congregations’ Economic Practices focuses on congregations rather than individuals and reveals that while some congregations are declining in size and revenue, many continue to grow. The (NSCEP) is the largest and most comprehensive, nationally representative study of U.S. congregations’ finances in more than a generation. It reveals a detailed picture of the nation’s more than 300,000 congregations and provides new insight into how congregations receive, manage and spend money. The study was made possible by a $1.67 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
The Asia-Pacific Edition of the Global Philanthropy Environment Index (GPEI) is being released today by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis, beginning with a special event in New Delhi, India, in association with Ashoka University’s Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy. This is the GPEI’s first regional report on the Asia-Pacific area.
The Indiana nonprofit landscape is broad and diverse, serving a variety of clients, members, and communities across the state, and a new tool from the Indiana Nonprofits Project gives the public a one-stop destination for information on the state of the state’s nonprofit organizations.
A new report from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute explores the characteristics of women’s fund and foundation donors — the vast majority of whom are women — and finds that these donors are exemplary in a number of ways. Donors to women’s funds and foundations give more, engage more holistically, and see themselves as leaders in philanthropy — particularly in their giving to women’s and girls’ causes.
Amid a complex climate for charitable giving, American individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations gave an estimated $427.71 billion to U.S. charities in 2018, according to Giving USA 2019: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2018. Total charitable giving rose 0.7% measured in current dollars over the revised total of $424.74 billion contributed in 2017. Adjusted for inflation, total giving declined 1.7%.
