The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI), in partnership with Elizabeth Dale, Ph.D. ’16, of Seattle University, released a new study this week. All In for Women & Girls explores the characteristics of women’s fund and foundation donors—the vast majority of whom are women—and finds that these donors stand out in a number of ways. Why… Read more »
Research
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 »
Program alignment and impact investing
I’ve talked about impact investing and its baseline principles in a previous blog post. Now, I’m going to dive into what programs make good investment opportunities for impact investing. For large dollar donors and foundations, this strategy could be game-changing; instead of making grants out of their endowment dollars and seeing little return, they could… 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 »