As part of our continuing series on donor perspectives, Dean Amir Pasic, Dr. Shariq Siddiqui, and Dilnaz Waraich sat down for a conversation about the importance of trust and vulnerability in meaningful collaboration. Learn more about the Community Collaboration Initiative
By David P. King, Ph.D., Karen Lake Buttrey Director In the most challenging of years, Americans persevered in their propensity to give. With the release of the annual Giving USA 2021 report, our research colleagues within the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy found that total charitable giving increased 5.1 percent in 2020. What do these… Read more »
By Meredith McNabb My family offered direct-withdrawal congregational giving before it was cool. When I was a child, 30-some years ago, my parents automatically put $1 of my allowance into savings and $1 into giving to our congregation. (There was also a $1 penalty when my room wasn’t clean—but that’s another story…) As an adult,… Read more »
By Muhi Khwaja, co-founder and director of development and philanthropy, American Muslim Community Foundation Each and every person can be a philanthropist, and I believe philanthropy is more about generosity than it is about wealth. As a Muslim, I am invited by my faith to give of what I love. In Ramadan, all around the… Read more »
Dilnaz Waraich and her family are intentional in their giving, making a family matrix and sitting around the kitchen table each year to discuss priorities. In addition, Waraich is helping to enhance the effectiveness of the third sector with her work. Her participation in the Community Collaboration Initiative aims to help 25 Muslim American nonprofits… Read more »