This week, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) released a new study on women’s foundations and funds in partnership with Elizabeth Gillespie, doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska Omaha. WPI partnered with Gillespie on a landscape scan of women’s foundations and funds earlier this year. Building on this research, Change Agents: The Goals and Impact… Read more »
By Hannah Saeger Karnei, Inaugural Fellow, The Patterson Foundation At The Patterson Foundation (TPF), philanthropy is approached as a tool to discover possibilities rather than solutions. TPF stands, as of today, quite unique in the independent foundation world in that there are no grant cycles, no requests for proposals, no timing limitations to its funding… 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 »
What was your path to philanthropy? What advice do you have for students exploring and learning about the nonprofit sector? Students in Dr. Patricia Snell Herzog’s introductory course previously went on a site visit to human services nonprofit Second Helpings, where the students learned about networking, paths toward working in the sector, and future career… Read more »
By Jolinda Moore, executive director of stewardship and development for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Change is hard. Over the weekend I asked my 14-year old to sit with me to discuss her high school schedule. She froze saying, “I don’t want to think about it. It is going to be different and difficult. The thought… Read more »