In a previous post, we talked about Dr. Kathi Badertscher and the ties connecting the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Coburn Place Safe Haven. What’s another one of those ties? Bachelor’s student Erin Wuertz, who has taken full advantage of her internship opportunity in her time at the school and Coburn Place. She didn’t… Read more »
First-year Ph.D. candidates Dana Doan and Tiara Dungy have spent much of their adult lives in Vietnam and South Africa, respectively. Both have thought about and engaged with diversity and privilege and they have experienced those ideas. Studying in Indiana at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has also provided opportunities for them to continue… Read more »
People come to the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy from all different walks of life. Dr. Kathi Badertscher worked as a broker in corporate insurance for 26 years. “It was really good for a long time; I traveled, met people, and learned a lot,” she said. About 12 years ago, she began re-thinking what she… Read more »
In October, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy launched a new, interactive website, GenerosityforLife.org. Through this website, individuals evaluate their charitable giving and volunteering and access resources to learn more about generosity. Those resources include grant-funded research by eight scholars studying generosity through diverse lenses, including education, sociology, psychology, and economics. Funding for this research… Read more »
I am not a fundraiser. I say that now, in order to clarify that what I say is not the opinion of someone from the field and with practical experience. My experience is with marketing and communications, and while I have worked with fundraisers in the past through previous roles, I don’t have direct fundraising… Read more »