By Bill Stanczykiewicz, Ed.D. An unfortunate comment by a dedicated board member can teach all fundraisers a career-long lesson about the importance of board engagement and fundraising. The new leader of a struggling nonprofit organization asked board members to think about colleagues, friends, neighbors, and family members who might be interested in donating to the… Read more »
How do you earn a master’s degree in philanthropic studies? There’s the obvious. You learn about the school, you apply, you’re accepted, you enroll, you take classes and an internship, you graduate. Simple enough, right? Maybe. But what do you really learn? Well, I can show you my journey as an example. It will hopefully… Read more »
Interested in taking a class that allows you to give away $10,000? Want to learn how to write a grant proposal? Consider taking one of these classes, whether you’re a philanthropy major or not. PHST-P370 Learning by Giving Undergraduate student Bubala Madubansi is a current nursing student who took the Learning by Giving course… Read more »
We recently published what happens in “a day in the life” of bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degree students. So, I thought it would be fun to showcase one of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s institutes or schools. All four are fascinating, but I needed a place to start. So, I went to the… Read more »
I am not a fundraiser. I say that now, in order to clarify that what I say is not the opinion of someone from the field and with practical experience. My experience is with marketing and communications, and while I have worked with fundraisers in the past through previous roles, I don’t have direct fundraising… Read more »