By Bill Stanczykiewicz, Ed.D. Fundraisers are managers utilizing a fundraising plan as a management document to achieve goals and meet metrics. However, even though fundraisers rarely hold a nonprofit’s top staff position, fundraisers are also leaders. Knowing the difference between fundraising management and fundraising leadership is essential for fundraising success. While management is focused on… Read more »
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Beyond the check: The Patterson Foundation’s approach to innovative philanthropy
We are offering a series of one-credit courses during the upcoming winter session on a variety of topics led by prominent practitioners in their fields, and we’ve been looking at each of these new courses in further detail, including this one from The Patterson Foundation. By: Debra Jacobs, president and CEO, The Patterson Foundation In… Read more »
Everything is copy: Why storytelling matters, for philanthropy and otherwise
We are offering a series of one-credit courses during the upcoming winter session on a variety of topics led by prominent practitioners in their fields. We’ll be looking at each of these new courses in further detail over the coming days, including this one on Storytelling and Philanthropy. By Alexandra Hudson When asked how she… Read more »
New winter course explores contemporary American Jewish philanthropy
We are offering a series of one-credit courses during the upcoming winter session on a variety of topics led by prominent practitioners in their fields. We’ll be looking at each of these new courses in further detail over the coming days, including this one on Contemporary American Jewish Philanthropy. By Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim, Ph.D…. Read more »
Philanthropy in times of crisis: A new course at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
By Dean Amir Pasic, Ph.D. This fall, we are preparing a new graduate course that I will teach that takes a deeper dive into the COVID-19 crisis and what it means for philanthropy. As a period of intense trouble and danger, often exposing pre-existing inequities in society, a crisis demands intense responses. What roles does… Read more »