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Item Charitable Giving Around the 2016 Election: Does Gender Matter?(2018-10-09) Osili, Una; Mesch, Debra; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Pactor, Andrea; Bergdoll, JonathanThis study aims to provide insights on donations during the unique time period around the 2016 U.S. presidential election, using gift data from an online donation platform. Did giving to charitable organizations increase after the election? What causes benefited from post-election philanthropy? This study also seeks to understand whether there were gender differences in giving around the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Item The Women & Girls Index 2021: Measuring Giving to Women’s and Girls’ Causes(2021-10-26) Skidmore, Tessa; Bergdoll, Jon; Osili, Una; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Sager, JeannieWomen’s and girls’ organizations appear in every nonproft subsector, spanning causes including education, health, the environment, and the arts. During the past fve years, events like the Women’s March and #MeToo movement have shined a spotlight on gender-related issues such as reproductive rights and sexual harassment and abuse. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial justice movement, and climate crisis have highlighted inequities—including gender disparities—in the United States and around the world. Despite increased public attention to these issues, the Women & Girls Index (WGI), created by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) in 2019 and updated in 2020, revealed that philanthropic support for organizations dedicated to women and girls makes up a small fraction of overall charitable giving.Item The Women & Girls Index: Measuring Giving to Women's and Girls' Causes(2019-10-03) Mesch, Debra; Osili, Una; Skidmore, Tessa; Bergdoll, Jonathan; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Pactor, AndreaPartially due to the absence of a technical definition of giving to women and girls—such as a formal subsector classification—this area of philanthropy has not been rigorously studied. Therefore, it has not been possible to answer these questions, let alone determine whether giving to women and girls is growing. To fill this gap in knowledge, the Women’s Philanthropy Institute developed the Women & Girls Index (WGI)—the first systematically generated, comprehensive index of charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls in the United States. This report introduces the WGI and uses this tool to provide those who study and practice philanthropy with a clearer picture of the characteristics of women’s and girls’ organizations and patterns of giving to this population. This picture reveals that while gender issues may be receiving increased public attention, charitable giving to women’s and girls’ causes does not necessarily reflect these societal conversations.Item The Women and Girls Index Infographic(2019-10-03)