Matthew Treadwell, JD
Matthew Treadwell is a Gift Planning Attorney at the Indiana University Foundation. His office is located on the IUPUI Campus where he assists all units at IUPUI, IU East, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU South Bend, and IU Southeast. Along with his fundraising responsibilities, Matthew directs IU’s Planned Giving marketing efforts.
Prior to joining IU Foundation, Matthew was the Planned Giving Officer for the National FFA Foundation. In this role, Matthew restarted a planned giving program that had been dormant. He revitalized the planned giving legacy group, the Forever Blue Circle, implemented a new event during the National FFA Convention for planned giving donors and prospective donors, and oversaw a transition in marketing vendors. Along with his planned giving responsibilities, Matthew managed the Foundation’s endowments process and donors. Matthew acted as the liaison between the National FFA and each individual State FFA Foundation/Association to organize and coordinate fundraising goals and methods.
Before entering the nonprofit world, Matthew was a Deputy Attorney General in the Office of the Indiana Attorney General. He began his time in the Office working directly for then-Chief Deputy Gary Secrest. Matthew then made the transition to the Transportation Practice Group’s Litigation team handling eminent domain cases.
Matthew graduated from Indiana University with a major entitled Global Inequalities, through the Individualized Major Program. His senior thesis focused on Land Rights in Cambodia and the issues villagers and farmers have with proving ownership in the post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia.
After graduating from IU, Matthew spent time working on the west side of Indianapolis at a school for students with mental and emotional disabilities.
Matthew attended law school at the University of Notre Dame, seeking out classes that provided practical experience as well as those with a focus on nonprofit and non-governmental organizations.
Matthew is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, Board Member for Ausome Indy, Board Member and Sponsorship Chair for Charitable Gift Planners – Indianapolis, and the Chair of the Notre Dame Lawyers Committee Advisory Council.