David King, Ph.D., Karen Lake Buttrey Director of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and assistant professor of philanthropic studies recently published a book about the global and religiously-affiliated humanitarian organization, World Vision. Here, King sits down with communications project manager Abby Rolland to discuss the book, the research behind it, and why King utilized… Read more »
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Giving USA: An in-depth process and look at giving throughout the year
Last year, we discussed the collaboration and thorough research process behind Giving USA 2018: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2017. To mark the release of this year’s report, we’re diving deeper into the process of how an individual chapter is written and how it covers and curates other important giving reports released… Read more »
Building bridges: Connecting academics and practitioners
By Patricia Snell Herzog, Ph.D., and Tiara Dungy Here at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy we have been talking about building more bridges between academics and practitioners. Building bridges is certainly not a new idea. Indeed, despite the wide diversity of approaches taken in different academic circles, there are many examples of this exact language in… Read more »
Best practices for attracting support of millennial donors
By Julia Kohl Julia Kohl is a development consultant for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, a nonprofit theater company in the Boston, MA area, and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in philanthropic studies from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. For the Spring 2019 semester, she joined Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog and fellow graduate student Taylor… Read more »
Technology and change in the nonprofit sector
Technology is changing the philanthropic sector, and that includes spaces like libraries. In their fifth class visit, Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog’s class visited University Library and the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives. They learned about digitization of documents, sharing of information, and the power of digital marketing and technology, and shared their thoughts on… Read more »