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 »
This week, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) released COVID-19, Generosity, and Gender: How Giving Changed During the Early Months of a Global Pandemic, which explores how men and women gave in response to the pandemic and how their overall giving changed in spring 2020. The study uses data from a WPI survey on U.S. households’… Read more »
The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI)’s new podcast series, “Philanthropy Plugged In” invites scholars and practitioners together to discuss the intersection of gender, giving, and technology. One of the episodes focuses on giving in the digital age, and features Scott Jackson, president and CEO of Global Impact, an organization founded to support workplace giving with small… Read more »
By Kelly R. Young Patrick Dwyer, Ph.D., went to college to study math before becoming hooked on studying human nature through the scientific method, going on to earn his doctorate in social psychology at the University of Minnesota. In 2017, he joined the faculty at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy as an… Read more »
In 2018, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy released the Global Philanthropy Environment Index, the world’s largest and most comprehensive effort to document the state of global philanthropy and the factors that enhance or inhibit its success. Now, we are highlighting countries on the blog that did not originally appear in the 2018 Index. Follow… Read more »