Meet Colleen Rusnak, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute’s graduate assistant (GA) for the 2020-2021 academic year. In this post, Colleen shares with interviewer Jacqueline Ackerman (WPI’s associate director of research) about her experience as a GA during an unusual year! Share a little bit about your background. Where are you from, and what led you to… Read more »
Last month, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) celebrated a milestone; from 2009 to 2019, WPI has organized a panel on gender and philanthropy at the ARNOVA annual conference. For those less familiar, ARNOVA is the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, and its annual conference convenes hundreds of scholars to advance research… Read more »
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 »
I recently came across a thought-provoking article: Is philanthropy driven by altruism, ego, or the human desire to cheat death? The title immediately piqued my interest – at the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, we have read and written a lot about what drives philanthropy for women and men. The article reviews some research about why people… Read more »
In April, several representatives from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy attended the 2019 Greater Giving Summit in Seattle, hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jacqueline Ackerman, associate director for research at the Women’s Philanthropy Institute, shares her reflections on the event. A couple months ago, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) participated in the… Read more »