Insights Newsletter

This issue features a guest blogger, Valaida Fullwood on the topic of philanthropy and identity. Topics covered in this issue include:

• The Face That Launched a Thousand Days
• Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists
• TedxTalk video "Personal Identity & Finding Philanthropy" featuring Valaida Fullwood

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This issue offers insights on prophetic religions and transformative
philanthropy. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Reflections of A Public Faith by Miroslav Volf
• Naming of the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
• Workshop offered that explores the 2013 CEIS

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This issue offers insights on observations from Lake Institute’s new research, the 2013 Congregational Economic Impact Study (CEIS). Topics covered in this issue include:

• Good Intentions Alone Do Not Make for Financial Success
• Workshop offered that explores the 2013 CEIS
• Thomas H. Lake Lecture – Ann Braude

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This issue highlights Lake Institute’s new research, the 2013 Congregational Economic Impact Study. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Clergy: A Key Factor in Congregational Financial Success
• The resilience of congregations amidst the recession
• Register for the 10th Annual Thomas H. Lake Lecture

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This issue features a guest blogger, Shakeela Hassan on the topic of Islamic Philanthropy. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Islamic Philanthropy: Giving is a Way of Life – Shakeela Hassan, MD
• Thomas H. Lake Lecture – Ann Braude
• Lake Scholar Program – Lew Daly

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This issue offers insights on business models for congregations. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Is it Time for your Congregation to Rethink its Business Model?
• ALDE International Educational Conference
• Webinar featuring William Enright

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This issue offers insights on end of the year giving. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Slicing Your December Charitable Giving Pie
• Webinars featuring William Enright
• New Executive Certificate in Religious Fundraising being piloted

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This issue offers insights on where gratitude begins. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Generosity: The Birth Child of Gratitude
• 2012 Lake Lecture by Jim Hodge
• Webinar featuring William Enright

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This issue offers insights on the meaning of generosity. Topics covered in this issue include:

• IndyTalks Program
• The meaning of generosity
• 2012 Lake Lecture by Jim Hodge

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This issue offers insights on the difference between stewardship and fundraising campaigns. Topics covered in this issue include:

• The Stewardship Debacle
• IndyTalks program on October 18th
• New School on Philanthropy

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This issue offers insights on how religion and geography shape the giving landscape. Topics covered in this issue include:

• The Giving Landscape
• “How America Gives”
• Where Lake is going
• Public seminar in Wheaton, IL

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This issue offers insights on how a congregation’s budget is a theological statement as to what it values and prioritizes in its mission and ministry. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Checkbook Theology
• Testimonies of CCCG participants
• CCCG seminar offered in Indy this fall
• Giving USA 2012 Annual Report

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This issue looks at the recent Giving USA 2012: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2011. Topics covered in this issue include:

•     The decline in religious giving
•     Embracing new giving practices and principles
•     The first School of Philanthropy

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This issue contains insights on:

• Giving and the Economic Cycles
• Lake Institute Offerings

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This issue contains insights on:

• God and Money

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This issue offers insights on:

• When Congregations Are Under Water
• If Philanthropy is All About Relationships,Why Do Metrics Only Measure Money?

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This issue includes reflections about smart investments regarding Religion and Philanthropy.  Giving 2.0, written by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, is the featured text that captures her overall philosophy “empower others and your impact will be greater in the long run.”  Topics covered in this issue:

• Religious Giving Buys Long
• 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Awarded

This issue features the growing trend away from traditional charitable giving to more strategic giving. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Trending Toward Strategic Giving
• Lake Lecture special guest Jim Hodge, III.

This issue features how an effective board is pivotal to generous giving and institutional effectiveness.. Topics covered in this issue include:

• The Boardroom: Where Generosity Begins
• Lake Lecture special guest Jim Hodge, III.

This issue features the hidden fundraising losses. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Fundraising Effectiveness Survey Report
• Lake Lecture special guest Jim Hodge, III.

This issue features Heretical Musings on the Year of Jubilee. Topics covered in this issue include:

• Heretical Musings on the Year of Jubilee
• Lake Lecture special guest Jim Hodge, III.

This issue features productive paranoia and oxygen canister. Topics covered in this issue include:

• ON PRODUCTIVE PARANOIA AND OXYGEN CANISTERS
• LAKE DISTINGUISHED VISITOR PROGRAM: BILL HUDNUT

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