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Item The Women & Girls Index 2024: Measuring Giving to Women’s and Girls’ Organizations(2024-10-08) Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; Osili, UnaThe Women & Girls Index (WGI) from the Women's Philanthropy Institute (WPI) is the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to organizations dedicated to women and girls in the United States, including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations and corporations. The 2024 WGI adds 2021 giving data across 54,588 charitable organizations. It provides an analysis on a full decade-long span for the first time, from 2012 to 2021, highlighting both gaps and growth in philanthropic support for women and girls. Also a first, women’s and girls’ organizations surpassed $10 billion in giving as they received $10.2 billion in philanthropic support in 2021. This historic milestone is set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic’s ongoing disproportionate impact on women, particularly women of color and those in low-wage jobs, and ongoing discussions about the systemic barriers to gender equity. While awareness of gender-focused issues such as pay equity and reproductive rights has grown, overall charitable giving that supports women and girls remains relatively small at 1.9% of total giving. This statistic highlights the continued need for greater philanthropic support across the full spectrum of causes that improve the lives of women and girls.Item Moving Money and Shifting Power for Social Justice Infographic(Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2023-02) School of Philanthropy, Lilly FamilyItem Moving Money and Shifting Power for Social Justice(Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2023-02) School of Philanthropy, Lilly FamilyItem The Women & Girls Index 2022(Women's Philanthropy Institute, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2022-10) Skidmore, Tessa; Bergdoll, Jon; Osili, Una; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Sager, JeannieThe Women & Girls Index (WGI) provides the only systematically generated, comprehensive data on charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls. The WGI tracks the landscape of women’s and girls’ organizations in the U.S., including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations, and corporations. You can download the full list of WGI organizations, as well as search for organizations by keyword, category, and geographic location at WomenAndGirlsIndex.org. This website also contains more details about the Index, and the methodology used to create and update the WGI. The updated WGI adds information from 2019— the most recent year for which finalized IRS data on charitable organizations is available. This update expands the picture of charitable giving to women and girls from 2012 to 2019. The year 2019 saw philanthropic support for equal pay inspired by the U.S. women’s national soccer team winning the World Cup1 and ongoing charitable giving in response to the #MeToo movement.2 The 2019 WGI data provide a baseline for charitable giving to women’s and girls’ organizations prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately impacted women in numerous ways.Item COVID-19, Generosity, and Gender: How Giving Changed During the First Year of a Global Pandemic(2021-11-16) Skidmore, Tessa; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; Osili, Una; Sager, JeannieWhile other research has been conducted on charitable giving during the pandemic, as well as challenges for women during this time, this report focuses on the intersection of COVID-19, gender, and philanthropy. This study has implications for nonproft organizations and fundraisers as they continue to adjust to the new dynamics of their work, and for donors as they choose where and how to give, especially those prioritizing gender equity and racial and social justice given the events of the past year and a half. As society’s views of and responses to the pandemic have shifted, so, too, has charitable giving and the role of women in families and society. This report provides an update on the research one year later to understand how women and men are giving in the second year of the COVID-19 crisis.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 Gender and Crowdfunding(2021-09-01) Mesch, Debra; Osili, Una; Ackerman, Jacqueline; Bergdoll, Jon; Skidmore, Tessa; Sager, JeannieIn an atmosphere of uncertainty and unprecedented need, this report focuses on women’s crowdfunding contributions as a key giving vehicle. Prior research has shown that, broadly speaking, women are more generous than men. Nontraditional forms of generosity such as crowdfunding also tend to appeal to women donors. This study focuses on the gender dynamics of crowdfunding donors.