The Center's groundbreaking research provides a basis for better decision making in the nonprofit sector and empowers nonprofits, funders, and donors to accomplish their missions more effectively. Its expertise impacts public policy, nonprofit management practices, grantmaking, and more. This high-quality, objective research is labor-intensive, and therefore expensive, but its impact is significant.

Quality of Life Project

The Indianapolis Quality of Life (QoL) Project’s goal is to provide the greater Indianapolis area with data, research, and other information to help residents and stakeholders understand the many dimensions of the area’s quality of life. These dimensions include public health, education, the economy, public safety, philanthropy, and many others. This information is conveyed via a website that tracks each of the QoL dimensions via a number of indicators, provides pertinent research reports and articles, and references to related community programs and promising practices. The QoL Project is a collaboration among four IUPUI research centers: the Center on Philanthropy, the Indiana Business Research Center, the IU Public Policy Institute, and the Polis Center.

For more information on the QoL project, please visit http://www.inqualityoflife.org/.

Other Partners

The Center’s research program is possible only through gifts, grants, and contracts. Your gift can help sustain the Center’s focused research efforts, which have national and international impact. You may make a gift online through the IU Foundation.

The following list recognizes corporations, foundations, and organizations that have provided funding for research at the level of $10,000 and above. We are grateful for their generous and ongoing support of our research programs.

American Express
Americans for the Arts
Asbury Heights
The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program
Association for Healthcare Philanthropy
Association of Fundraising Professionals
Association of Small Grantmakers
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Bank of America
Campbell & Company
CCS Fundraising
Columbia University
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Donors Forum of Chicago
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
The Ford Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Giving Institute
Giving USA Foundation
The Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation
Google
Indiana Grantmakers Alliance
Indiana Sports Corporation
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
McCormick Tribune Foundation
Metropolitan Association for Philanthropy (St. Louis)
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
National Football League
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Slate.com
Target Corporation
United States Chamber of Commerce