By Kylie Kaspar Most people are able to identify which traits they get from their parents—I know that’s certainly true in my case. But economist Mark O. Wilhelm wanted to explore whether values like generosity might also be passed down from parent to child. Wilhelm, professor of economics at IUPUI and founding director of the… Read more »
By Jon Bergdoll Jon Bergdoll is the applied statistician in the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s research team. He directs and conducts analyses for many of the school’s research projects, including Women Give 2018 and other studies conducted in partnership with the Women’s Philanthropy Institute. In this post, he answers questions about the… Read more »
At the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, collaboration is key. Recently, the school participated in two collaborative panels with other schools and organizations on information and research related to international philanthropy and board diversity. Working with other schools and organizations provides the opportunity for the school to augment and deepen its research and knowledge on… Read more »
Black History Month ended on Wednesday, and Women’s History Month started yesterday. In honor of these occasions, I spoke with Dr. Tyrone McKinley Freeman, an expert on Madam C.J. Walker and philanthropy in communities of color. Madam Walker, who lived during the height of Jim Crow, was widely known as the first American woman who… Read more »
For the past four years, the Philanthropy Outlook, a publication made possible by a partnership between the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Marts & Lundy, a leading fundraising and philanthropy consulting firm, has used a forecasting model to test variables to predict baseline measures of giving for the four sources of giving (individuals, foundations,… Read more »