Last year, we spoke with Anna Pruitt, Ph.D., and Tessa Skidmore about the Philanthropy Outlook, a report by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy presented by Marts & Lundy that predicts baseline measures of giving for the next two years. In order to account for tax policy changes passed at the end of 2017, the school’s research team restructured the… Read more »
You may have seen the exciting numbers for Giving USA 2018. For the first time, charitable giving by individuals, bequests, foundations, and corporations in the U.S. has risen to over $400 billion ($410.02 billion to be exact), according to Giving USA 2018: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2017. You can find out… Read more »
For the past four years, the Philanthropy Outlook, a publication made possible by a partnership between the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Marts & Lundy, a leading fundraising and philanthropy consulting firm, has used a forecasting model to test variables to predict baseline measures of giving for the four sources of giving (individuals, foundations,… Read more »