Sharing a Legacy

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WHAT MATTERS Patrick M. Rooney, Ph. D. Shaping a Legacy When Dr. Peter Thuynsma came to The Fund Raising School for training, he revealed that his work as a professional fundraiser takes him to the doorstep of one of world's most incredible social movements every single day. Philanthropy has the power to transform lives, institutions, and communities. I was struck by the story of Dr. Thuynsma, from the University of Pretoria, who came to Indianapolis at the end of August. Because of strategic support from the Kresge Foundation and the South African Institute for Advancement, he was able to join us as a part of a contract training program The Fund Raising School offered for a contingent of South African university fundraising leaders.  Read more about Peter's experiences at The Fund Raising School....   News Giving to International Affairs The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and Giving USA Foundation and have released an in-depth report about one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. charitable donations: international affairs. “International affairs giving is an area that has seen some of the fastest rates of growth of all of the subsectors that we have tracked,” said Giving USA Managing Editor Melissa S. Brown, the Center on Philanthropy’s associate director of research. Although giving is determined by many factors, support following a global natural disaster, such as the 2009 earthquake in Haiti, drives philanthropic support from the U.S. to international NGOs. This is one area explored in “Giving to International Affairs,” the most recent topical digest released as a part of Giving USA 2010. In addition to estimates of 2009 giving to international causes, the newly-released report includes motivations for giving, key trends, and summaries of surveys about international aid.  Order Giving to International Affairs today.... From A to Z: the Strategic Plan to the Annual Report The strategic plan and annual report are pillars by which nonprofit organizations measure their goals and outcomes—organizational bookends for charting the course and measuring their impact. Strategic planning is essential for the effective leadership and management of nonprofits, particularly in volatile and uncertain operating environments. Could you use some help building and sustaining high performance through strategic planning? The Fund Raising School and the School of Public and Environment Affairs at Indiana University have partnered to offer this new course, “Strategic Planning and Nonprofit Leadership.” Learn more here. Organizations have taken different approaches to the annual report as they consider resource allocation – some are moving online or to a quarterly report system. The bottom line: nonprofits, as organizations serving the public good, have a responsibility to be transparent. Ways to demonstrate this transparency vary. At the Center on Philanthropy, we hold ourselves accountable to delivering an annual report within 90 days of the end of our fiscal year. You’re welcome to take a peek at our newly released report.  Take a peek at our 09-10 annual report.... Leadership and the Gender Lens “You don’t have to have a lot of money to be a philanthropist,” said Dr. Hester Klopper, R.N. Klopper will speak at the Center’s 2011 symposium on women and global philanthropy, and is anxious tell the story of a network of universities collaborating to train nurses in East Africa. She heads the School of Nursing Science at Northwest University in South Africa and serves as a board member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Klopper and her colleagues leveraged their networks to create and lead a project involving nine universities that are helping each other with faculty and curriculum development. Klopper knows that examining her role in leadership, capacity building, and volunteerism using a gender lens is important and necessary. “We can show the evidence of success in this project—our team has demonstrated that with a little money invested in Africa, we can go much further.” You can hear more about what Klopper’s experiences tell us about women and global philanthropy, and meet other leaders like her, at the Women World Wide: Leading Through Philanthropy symposium in March.  Register for Women World Wide today.... Center on Philanthropy Alumni Association Leadership The Center on Philanthropy Alumni Association (COPAA) has nominated a new slate of officers for its executive committee. Tonja Eagan, Chief Executive Officer of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana (MPA in Nonprofit Management ’94), will serve as the group’s president. The Center would like to hear from its alumni! Please contact Josh Sprunger with any questions about the nominations process or COPAA’s activities during the coming year.  Meet the new executive committee.... 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