August is celebrated as Black Philanthropy Month. In honor of this month and black philanthropy, we’re posting an article by Dr. Tyrone Freeman about Madam C.J. Walker’s philanthropy. This article originally appeared in Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. By Dr. Tyrone Freeman Madam C. J. Walker’s philanthropy is typically… Read more »
Need to recruit more board members? Read a transcription of a podcast produced by The Fund Raising School, narrated by Bill Stanczykiewicz, assistant dean for external relations and director of The Fund Raising School, and Dr. Gene Tempel, founding dean emeritus of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Bill Stanczykiewicz (BS): Where does fundraising start?… Read more »
David King, Ph.D., Karen Lake Buttrey Director of Lake Institute on Faith & Giving and assistant professor of philanthropic studies recently published a book about the global and religiously-affiliated humanitarian organization, World Vision. Here, King sits down with communications project manager Abby Rolland to discuss the book, the research behind it, and why King utilized… Read more »
The demise of a Silicon Valley start-up called “Theranos” has renewed doubts about whether business and philanthropic purposes can really mix. Although nonprofits have long relied on payments for the services they provide or the goods they produce, critics have denounced the “marketization of the nonprofit sector” as having the potential to corrupt charities, causing… Read more »
By Patricia Snell Herzog, Ph.D., and Tiara Dungy Here at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy we have been talking about building more bridges between academics and practitioners. Building bridges is certainly not a new idea. Indeed, despite the wide diversity of approaches taken in different academic circles, there are many examples of this exact language in… Read more »