As a new student in the philanthropic studies master’s program at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Maarten Bout told Dr. Dwight Burlingame that he flat out refused to do a thesis, an option offered to master’s students. “It will take too much time and I don’t know what I would write about,” Bout told… Read more »
You may have heard of a new app hitting the market in the last nine months – the Random App of Kindness, or RAKi. The app focuses on building empathy among children and teenagers ages 10-17 through a series of nine, evidence-based and scientifically tested mini-games that work to build and encourage empathy. What was… Read more »
Since its launch, the Human Needs Index (HNI) has served as a powerful tool to track human need with different indicators and less lag time than conventional government data. The partnership between the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and The Salvation Army produces and analyzes data that is updated every three months in… Read more »