Meet Heather O’Connor, the recipient of the 2020 Women’s Philanthropy Institute’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. O’Connor is a former fundraiser and CFRE with 20 years of experience in health, education, and social service nonprofits. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and researches women’s charitable giving, philanthropic decision-making processes,… Read more »
This week, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) released the Women & Girls Index 2020: Measuring Giving to Women’s and Girls’ Causes—our second annual report on the Women & Girls Index (WGI). The WGI is the only systematically generated, comprehensive index of charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls in the United States. The Index includes… Read more »
This article was originally published by CNBC. By Michelle Fox, CNBC It’s the season of giving — in the era of COVID-19. For parents who want to teach their children how to be charitable, there may be some roadblocks to traditional forms of volunteering, such as serving food at a soup kitchen, during this pandemic…. Read more »
By Cathie Carrigan In 2018, 47 countries and economies donated $68 billion in cross-border philanthropy—a figure larger than that of 144 of the world’s 217 economies. The 2020 Global Philanthropy Tracker (GPT) provides a crucial baseline for understanding the important role of cross-border giving as it stood before the COVID-19 pandemic, and will be vital… Read more »
By Kristi Howard-Shultz In the wake of the twin crises of the global COVID-19 pandemic and an economic recession, how nonprofits perceive and interact with donor-advised funds (DAFs) is particularly important. DAFs have become an important tool for donors to respond to these crises. In fact, the four largest DAF sponsoring organizations, as well as… Read more »