By Kim Williams-Pulfer, Ph.D., postdoctoral research appointee Women Give 2019 answers critical questions about the relationship between race, gender, and philanthropy. The first part of the report recognizes the central value of giving and generosity among diverse communities, indicating that across race, ethnicity, and gender, giving is equally valued. This section also focuses on the… Read more »
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Women lead through philanthropy—across race and ethnicity
Jacqueline Ackerman is the associate director of research at the Women’s Philanthropy Institute. In this post, she details new research about the intersection of race, gender, and giving. A new study by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI), Women Give 2019: Gender and Giving Across Communities of Color, highlights that generosity is a value shared by… Read more »
‘The perfect mix’: Teaching, conducting and translating research, and directing Lake Institute on Faith & Giving
For David King, Ph.D., Karen Lake Buttrey Director of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and assistant professor of philanthropic studies, the aspiration to both teach and work in service to religious institutions propelled him to seek a position where he could do both. But how? After completing his undergraduate degree in history and a… Read more »
Women’s motivations for charitable giving: Constant or changing over 30 years?
Thanks to pioneering efforts in 1992 by then UCLA fundraiser Dyan Sublett to learn and write about what motivated women donors to give to the university, we have a unique opportunity to compare women’s philanthropic behavior then and now and to connect the qualitative assessments to empirical research. Have women’s motivations for giving changed over… Read more »
Dr. John List, the science of the economics of philanthropy, and the partnership of two thought leaders
In 1998, economist Dr. John List was working as an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida when the dean of the school came to him with an idea: start a center for environmental policy analysis and help raise money to support it. That idea, and the $5,000 that the dean gave Dr. List… Read more »