It happens every three years. It sells out. It is one-of-a-kind. And, previous attendees have called it “inspiring,” “thought-provoking,” and “galvanizing.” “It” is the triennial Women’s Philanthropy Institute’s symposium. The 2020 symposium, Philanthropy Plugged In: Creating community in the digital age, is March 31-April 1 in Chicago. Registration opens today. We hope you’ll join… Read more »
Thanks to pioneering efforts in 1992 by then UCLA fundraiser Dyan Sublett to learn and write about what motivated women donors to give to the university, we have a unique opportunity to compare women’s philanthropic behavior then and now and to connect the qualitative assessments to empirical research. Have women’s motivations for giving changed over… Read more »
Two new studies released in November by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute in partnership with the Collective Giving Research Group add to what we know about giving circles. Previous research has shown that giving circle members: give more give more strategically give to a wider array and number of organizations increase their knowledge about philanthropy, nonprofits,… Read more »
Andrea Pactor, interim director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI), and Rafia Khader, program manager at Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, sat down recently to discuss their collaborative efforts for INspired to Give: Women, Faith, and Philanthropy, a special program in Indianapolis on Thursday, November 8. What prompted the idea for this project? RK:… Read more »
I was a new student in the master’s degree program at the Center on Philanthropy in Indianapolis that fall. Syllabi in hand, I was already reading and trying to stay on schedule after many years’ hiatus from school. Although most of my career to that point was in the nonprofit environment, it didn’t take long… Read more »