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To celebrate the European Day of Foundations and Donors 2018, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in collaboration with the Donors and Foundations Networks in Europe (DAFNE) is releasing a European edition of the school’s 2018 Global Philanthropy Environment Index.
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.
Nationally esteemed philanthropy expert Patricia Snell Herzog, Ph.D., has been selected as the first scholar to hold the Melvin Simon Chair in Philanthropy at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IU Indianapolis.
Leading philanthropy scholars and nonprofit professionals will come together to examine what prompts people to give the way they do and what charities can do to encourage more giving at the Science of Philanthropy Initiative conference Sept. 19-20 in Indianapolis.
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.
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.
Powered by a booming stock market and a strong economy, charitable giving by American individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations to U.S. charities surged to an estimated $410.02 billion in 2017, according to Giving USA 2018: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2017, released today.
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, 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.
