Last month, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) released Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds, which offers new insight on how women’s foundations and funds create change for women and girls and the broader community. A previous blog post highlighted key findings from the report, brought to life by some of… Read more »
Last month, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) celebrated a milestone; from 2009 to 2019, WPI has organized a panel on gender and philanthropy at the ARNOVA annual conference. For those less familiar, ARNOVA is the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, and its annual conference convenes hundreds of scholars to advance research… Read more »
Two years ago, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy launched GenerosityForLife.org, a comprehensive website dedicated to inspiring generosity long-term. Using the Give-O-Meter data tool, you can compare your own giving and volunteering to others in a similar age group, income bracket, education level, and U.S. region of residence. You can explore giving in different areas… Read more »
By Rebecca TeKolste Some recent publications, including books by Anand Giridharadas, Dr. Rob Reich, and Edgar Villanueva have criticized the philanthropic sector as being another outlet for the wealthiest classes to set priorities in the social sector or a mechanism to obfuscate their role in creating social ills. If the 1/10th of 1 percent of… Read more »
By Kidist Ibrie Yasin My journey to a Ph.D. study in philanthropy has already opened several opportunities in less than a year, the most recent of which was four days in May to participate in the ISTR/WITS African Ph.D. Seminar and Annual Philanthropy Conference, held in the beautiful “City of Gold,” Johannesburg, South Africa. A… Read more »