We’ve taken you through six nonprofit organization visits with one undergraduate class this semester, but they’re not the only ones learning and doing philanthropy. The course “Learning by Giving,” taught by Dr. Dwight Burlingame, actively encourages students to participate in the grantmaking process. With a $5,000 grant from the Learning by Giving Foundation and a… Read more »
Last spring, we interviewed Coretta McAllister, a bachelor’s degree alumna of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Since graduating in 2015, she earned a Master of Social Work degree. However, McAllister realized that her education in philanthropy was not completed. She returned last fall to earn her master’s degree in philanthropic studies. Here, she shares… Read more »
During their time at the school, undergraduate students learn how to articulate the causes they care about and pursue careers based on those passions. Throughout this series, students from Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog’s course shared various lessons that they’ve learned in visits to a variety of organizations. In their final class visit, students went to… Read more »
Technology is changing the philanthropic sector, and that includes spaces like libraries. In their fifth class visit, Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog’s class visited University Library and the Ruth Lilly Special Collections and Archives. They learned about digitization of documents, sharing of information, and the power of digital marketing and technology, and shared their thoughts on… Read more »
In their fourth visit, students in Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog’s class toured and learned about The Nature Conservancy in Indiana. They reflected on the multi-tiered structure of The Nature Conservancy and the benefits to having local and national branches of the same organization. Dr. Herzog said of this visit that “the organizational representatives did a fantastic… Read more »