This past spring, Dr. Laurie Paarlberg, Charles Stewart Mott Chair on Community Foundations and professor of philanthropic studies, taught the course Nonprofit and Public Policy. Master’s student Amanda Keating became interested in how public policy impacts and develops alongside nonprofits during her first semester, and knew she wanted to take a course specifically focused on… Read more »
Generosity for Life
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 »
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 »
New landscape scan finds more commonalities than differences
The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI)’s newest report, Women’s Foundations and Funds: A Landscape Study offers fresh insight on these organizations, which serve as a dynamic force in giving by women to women. While women and girls are the main funding priority of the organizations included in the study, the report reveals a variety of other… Read more »