By Gene Tempel Dr. Maynard K. Hine was the first chancellor of IUPUI. In 1969, he left the deanship of the IU School of Dentistry to take on the task of creating a new university by bringing the IU and Purdue programs in Indianapolis together to form a new kind of institution. He was no… Read more »
Faculty Insights
MacKenzie Scott’s HBCU giving starkly contrasts with the approach of early white funders
By Tyrone Freeman, Ph.D. Novelist and billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has so far given at least US$560 million to 23 historically Black colleges and universities. These donations are part of a bid she announced in 2019 to quickly dedicate most of her fortune to charity. Scott’s gifts, including the $6 million she donated to Tougaloo… Read more »
Donor fatigue; is it real?
By: Kristi Howard-Shultz Over the last year we’ve heard a lot about fatigue—pandemic fatigue, COVID fatigue, Zoom fatigue. You may be experiencing all of these and more including donor fatigue. To explore this long-standing concept, I visited with Tim Seiler, Ph.D. As a professor, he hears this listed as one of the biggest and most common… Read more »
Building the academic field of philanthropic studies
By Andrea Pactor, M.A.‘03 When I started my master’s degree program at the Center on Philanthropy in 2001, I had no idea philanthropic studies was such a new field. The 1970s and 80s were a fertile time for experimentation in academia. By the mid-1980s, new academic programs such as women’s studies, American studies, and African… Read more »
Here are creative ways to teach your kids about charity
This article was originally published by CNBC. By Michelle Fox, CNBC It’s the season of giving — in the era of COVID-19. For parents who want to teach their children how to be charitable, there may be some roadblocks to traditional forms of volunteering, such as serving food at a soup kitchen, during this pandemic…. Read more »