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According to a new analysis released by The Salvation Army and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, state-level opinions and attitudes about government may influence the utilization of services by individuals in need. The school’s research team found that lower levels of trust in government are linked to higher usage of The Salvation Army’s services to meet basic human needs.

Chandra Harris-McCray, a doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, is the recipient of the 2018 Women’s Philanthropy Institute Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The award will help Harris-McCray complete her dissertation on African American women’s giving patterns to predominantly white institutions of higher education.

A new report from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute is the first known scholarly research examining how retirement affects charitable giving. The study finds that while most households decrease their overall spending around retirement, they generally maintain charitable giving levels — but gender differences exist. Single women and married couples are more likely to give, give more and give more consistently than single men in the years surrounding retirement. Single women and married couples are also more likely than single men to volunteer at this time in their lives.

William G. and Rose Mays

The Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis is launching new initiatives. Noted philanthropy scholar Una Osili, Ph.D., has been appointed Dean’s Fellow for the institute. and a Diversity Speakers Series will bring nationally prominent speakers to Indianapolis to examine diversity in philanthropy and nonprofit organizations during the 2018-19 academic year.

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