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Study of the Power of African American Alumnae Giving Receives Funding from Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

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.

First Known Study Examining How Retirement Affects Charitable Giving Finds Men And Women Give Differently

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

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.

Dean’s Fellow, Diversity Speakers Series announced by Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

The Mays Family Institute on Diverse Philanthropy at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI 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.

Giving USA 2018: Americans gave $410.02 billion to charity in 2017, crossing the $400 billion mark for the first time

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

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.

Study Finds Men Are More Likely Than Women to Replace Charitable Giving With Impact Investing

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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.

Why don’t we talk about money and religion?

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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

Nationally recognized women’s philanthropy expert will focus full-time on role as Eileen Lamb O’Gara Chair in Women’s Philanthropy to expand research about how gender affects giving

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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.

Nine Ph.D.s in Philanthropic Studies among 2018 graduating class

Monday, May 14, 2018

Nine new Ph.D.s in Philanthropic Studies were awarded to graduates of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI this weekend, the largest number of doctorates to be presented at one time in the school’s history. In all, 62 women and men earned degrees or certificates from the world’s first school dedicated to research and teaching about philanthropy.

Global philanthropy expert Pamala Wiepking selected as first scholar to hold Stead Family Chair in International Philanthropy

Monday, May 7, 2018

Noted global philanthropy researcher Pamala Wiepking, Ph.D., is the first scholar selected to hold an endowed chair at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI that is dedicated to increasing knowledge on international philanthropy.

Global Philanthropy Environment Index shows political uncertainty as greatest challenge to global philanthropy

Monday, April 30, 2018

The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI today released the 2018 Global Philanthropy Environment Index, the first such report since 2015. It is the world’s most comprehensive initiative to equip policy makers, philanthropic and nonprofit leaders, the business community and the public with a clear understanding of the environment for global philanthropy.

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