By Sarah K. Nathan, Ph.D., and Heather A. O’Connor As former fundraisers and “pracademics,” we care deeply about supporting the fundraising profession though evidence-based practices. We are also educators energized by young people choosing philanthropy as their careers. So when recent reports on fundraisers’ job satisfaction sounded a familiar alarm about high turnover rates, we… Read more »
In our final post about philanthropy in America, Dr. Matthew Ehlman shows that philanthropy is not only found in urban environments, but it also plays an important role in rural America. Where government and business have left, philanthropy has stepped in. According to The Bridgespan Group, rural areas between 1994 and 2001 received between $401… Read more »
In our third post about philanthropy in America and in Myth #4 of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s article “Eight Myths of U.S. Philanthropy,” Dr. Tyrone Freeman, assistant professor of philanthropic studies and director of undergraduate programs at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, illustrates that African Americans are not new or emerging donors. Instead, he… Read more »
In our second post about philanthropy in America, online master’s degree student Amanda Weitman had the opportunity to learn that incarcerated individuals can be philanthropists, giving their time, talent, treasure and testimony to writing a newspaper that informs its readership about life in prison and the good that happens behind bars. A wealth advisor for… Read more »
This week, we’re diving into a four-part series on philanthropy in the U.S. Discover insights into philanthropy in prisons, long-held traditions of philanthropy from African Americans, and philanthropy in rural America. Each day for the rest of this week, we’ll post a new blog in the series. Throughout the past two years, I’ve seen philanthropy… Read more »