Meet Jeannie Sager, the new director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI). Sager is an accomplished fundraising leader, with over 25 years of experience, and an alumna of the Center on Philanthropy. Learn more about her experiences, what first brought her to the Center on Philanthropy as a student, and her vision for the future… Read more »
Tag: women’s philanthropy
A decade of research on gender and philanthropy at ARNOVA
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 »
Measuring giving to women’s and girls’ causes
How many organizations are dedicated to women and girls and how much charitable giving do they receive? The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has released a new report titled the Women & Girls Index (WGI): Measuring Charitable Giving to Women’s and Girls’ Causes that compiles information on the number… Read more »
Women lead through philanthropy—across race and ethnicity
Jacqueline Ackerman is the associate director of research at the Women’s Philanthropy Institute. In this post, she details new research about the intersection of race, gender, and giving. A new study by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI), Women Give 2019: Gender and Giving Across Communities of Color, highlights that generosity is a value shared by… Read more »
Women’s motivations for charitable giving: Constant or changing over 30 years?
Thanks to pioneering efforts in 1992 by then UCLA fundraiser Dyan Sublett to learn and write about what motivated women donors to give to the university, we have a unique opportunity to compare women’s philanthropic behavior then and now and to connect the qualitative assessments to empirical research. Have women’s motivations for giving changed over… Read more »