The outpouring of tributes following Colin Powell’s death last month—and those during his memorial service last Friday at Washington National Cathedral—largely overlook one important piece of his legacy: his volunteer service in the nonprofit world. That service deserves recognition, along with the many other accolades he will continue to receive for his leadership in higher-profile… Read more »
By Gene Tempel Dr. Maynard K. Hine was the first chancellor of IUPUI. In 1969, he left the deanship of the IU School of Dentistry to take on the task of creating a new university by bringing the IU and Purdue programs in Indianapolis together to form a new kind of institution. He was no… Read more »
By Tyrone Freeman, Ph.D. Novelist and billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has so far given at least US$560 million to 23 historically Black colleges and universities. These donations are part of a bid she announced in 2019 to quickly dedicate most of her fortune to charity. Scott’s gifts, including the $6 million she donated to Tougaloo… Read more »
By: Kristi Howard-Shultz Over the last year we’ve heard a lot about fatigue—pandemic fatigue, COVID fatigue, Zoom fatigue. You may be experiencing all of these and more including donor fatigue. To explore this long-standing concept, I visited with Tim Seiler, Ph.D. As a professor, he hears this listed as one of the biggest and most common… Read more »
By Andrea Pactor, M.A.‘03 When I started my master’s degree program at the Center on Philanthropy in 2001, I had no idea philanthropic studies was such a new field. The 1970s and 80s were a fertile time for experimentation in academia. By the mid-1980s, new academic programs such as women’s studies, American studies, and African… Read more »