By Alexia Kelley I am delighted and honored to have recently joined Lake Institute on Faith & Giving Advisory Board. Its mission itself is an inspiration, as is the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from leaders across faith traditions to advance the field of faith-based philanthropy. As the President of FADICA, a peer network… 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 »
After earning a Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History in Scotland and serving as a pastor in Chicago, Dr. William Enright came to Indianapolis to become the senior pastor at Second Presbyterian Church. He served there for over 23 years when, in the midst of his retirement transition plan in 2004, an offer came to his… Read more »
By Dr. William Enright Originally published in the Indy Star Why are people of faith among the most generous charitable givers in the world? Historian James Hudnut-Beumler posed a similar question: Why do religious people pay through the institutions they support to be in relation to God? To illustrate the joy of charitable giving and… Read more »
For over 60 years, Giving USA Foundation has tracked and published data and trends about charitable giving through its publication Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy, which is researched and written by the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. This year, the foundation, the school, and Lake Institute on Faith & Giving took a… Read more »