By Angela E. White, CFRE Senior Consultant and CEO, Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates At Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates (JGA), understanding both the art and science of fundraising has been an important part of our practice since the beginning of the firm in 1994. On the art side, we focus on building strong donor relationships and… Read more »
By Sarah K. Nathan This post was originally published in Advancing Philanthropy. It is still common to hear fundraisers say they “fell” into fundraising or that they came to it “accidentally.” This phenomenon is relatively unique to fundraising. You don’t hear a surgeon say she “accidentally” went to medical school or an elementary school teacher… Read more »
As the world’s first and only school of philanthropy, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy acts as a hub not only for philanthropy in the United States, but for global philanthropy as well. As part of its commitment to global philanthropy research and practice, the school has acted as a host for philanthropic and nonprofit… Read more »
By Kathleen Loehr We know that the world has rapidly changed in the last generation. There is rich demographic diversity across our country today; kindergarten classes are now majority-minority, meaning that no one racial group makes up more than half their population. This shift translates into greater diversity of donors in our portfolios now and… Read more »
In January, we introduced two Science and Imagination of Living Generously (SILG) grantees and their research on generosity (SILG was a regranting program conducted by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Additional program details available at GenerosityForLife.org). We’re diving into two more of those research projects now. … Read more »