With three degrees from three countries, Pazit Levitan calls herself “the eternal student.” A bachelor’s degree in art history and journalism, and two master’s degrees (an MA in film & television studies and an MBA in media management) led her from her home country in Israel to working in higher education in the U.S…. Read more »
Recently, we’ve been highlighting key figures who have shaped the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and its predecessor, the Center on Philanthropy, throughout their combined history. Today, we’re spotlighting Gwendolyn Perry Davis. Davis is completing her two terms on the Board of Visitors and also teaches for The Fund Raising School, which she was introduced… Read more »
As a new student in the philanthropic studies master’s program at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Maarten Bout told Dr. Dwight Burlingame that he flat out refused to do a thesis, an option offered to master’s students. “It will take too much time and I don’t know what I would write about,” Bout told… Read more »
For Lilly Family School of Philanthropy B.A. junior Erica Gould, working at the YMCA is in her blood. A fifth-generation YMCA employee, Gould has worked at the Y since she was 17 and through hard work and dedication, has advanced to become the assistant site director for the New Britton Elementary before- and after-school program…. 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 »