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The dean's position at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy is being endowed in honor of the school's founding dean, Gene Tempel. The endowment is a gift from several donors, including Bill and Irene Lilly McCutchen, Jim and Maureen Hackett, Bob Hartsook, an anonymous donor and others. The gift was announced during the school's "Celebration of Leadership" dinner honoring Tempel in Indianapolis on Thursday night.
Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D., CEO and president of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) and nationally recognized philanthropy leader, has been selected as the first person to serve in the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Chair on Community Foundations at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, school officials announced today. He will be appointed visiting holder for the new chair, which is dedicated to understanding and strengthening community foundations. Carson will continue to serve as CEO and president of SVCF during his appointment.
Gene Tempel, founding dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, has been named one of the 50 most influential leaders in the nonprofit sector for the 13th time by The NonProfit Times, a leading nonprofit sector publication.
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy founding dean Gene Tempel receives the David R. Jones Award.
At an estimated $335.17 billion, total charitable giving from U.S. individuals, corporations, foundations and bequests in 2013 approached the peak seen before the worst of the Great Recession, adjusted for inflation, according to research released today by Giving USA Foundation and its research partner, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. When measured in current dollars, 2013 marked the fourth straight year of increased giving. As reported in Giving USA 2014: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2013, total giving has increased 22.0 percent since the official end of the recession in 2009 (12.3 percent when adjusted for inflation).
Megan E. Springate, a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the recipient of the 2014 Women's Philanthropy Institute (WPI) Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, WPI officials announced today. The award will help Springate complete her dissertation on women's holiday houses, which were founded in turn of the 20th century America to provide working women affordable and healthy vacations from urban factory life.
David P. King, a nationally acclaimed religious scholar, has been selected to lead Lake Institute on Faith + Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Founding Dean Gene Tempel announced.
Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation, will be the keynote speaker for the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy's school-wide graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 11. Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will present Case with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Indiana University during Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis) commencement ceremonies that day.
The Great Recession and subsequent recovery appear to have taken a heavy toll on nonprofit organizations that rely on members for voluntary and financial support, a new Indiana University report shows.
Nonprofits will be better able to improve their fundraising by integrating the latest research into their efforts as a result of gifts from national fundraising executive Robert F. Hartsook, JD, EdD, founder and chairman of the Hartsook Companies, Inc., to the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, school officials are announcing today. Hartsook and the school are creating the Hartsook Institute for Applied Fundraising Research to advance research by assessing the results of new fundraising ideas, translating research into practice, and applying research in real-life situations.
