4:30 PM PST – Formalizing the Relationship Between Practitioners and Academics Last session of the day! Emphasizing the importance of connecting research to practice has been a theme of this whole conference, but this session specifically focuses on the relationship between academics and practitioners. The panel features Dr. Matt Ehlman, a doctoral grad of the… Read more »
With a dual master’s degree in business administration and international agricultural economics and a professional background in nonprofit management, organizational effectiveness, human resources, and educational technology, Mickey Levitan has been marinating an idea to address major challenges facing promising nonprofits for the past 30 years. He first encountered these challenges as a country director for… Read more »
After earning her bachelor’s degree in her home county of China, Le (Elle) Yang knew she wanted to continue her studies in a master’s degree program. When circumstances drove her to begin looking at schools in the United States, she found, applied, and was accepted to the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. “I’m interested in… Read more »
This past March, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy announced a gift from the McKinney Family Foundation. This gift supports three master’s students and places them at three environmentally focused nonprofits for two years, where they learn firsthand how these organizations operate while also sharing with those nonprofits the new information they have learned through… Read more »
By Suzanne Garment and Leslie Lenkowsky As Congress begins to debate President Trump’s tax-overhaul plan, nonprofits have already geared up to take part. They’ve made clear that they want to avoid the “wrong kind of tax reform,” meaning changes that could depress Americans’ charitable giving. But the way charities have framed their legislative priorities puts… Read more »