INDIANAPOLIS—Fundraising consultant Bob Hartsook, Indianapolis community leader Karen Lake Buttrey and Uday Sukhatme,
executive vice chancellor and dean of the faculties at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), have
been elected members of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University’s Board of Visitors.
The board also elected new officers. Harriet Ivey, president and CEO of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, is
the board’s chair and Gail L. Freeman, founder and President of Freeman Philanthropic Services, LLC is its vice chair.
“We are honored to be able to draw on the expertise and experience of these three outstanding individuals as the Center
builds knowledge about philanthropy” said Gene Tempel, executive director of the Center on Philanthropy. “Their insights
and counsel will further strengthen our ability to help nonprofits in the U.S. and around the world advance their missions
and meet crucial community needs.”
Following their election, the new board members were appointed by Indiana University Executive Vice President and Chancellor
of IUPUI Charles Bantz to three-year terms. The new officers will serve for two years.
Bob Hartsook is an established and widely recognized leader and mentor in fundraising. He founded Hartsook Companies, Inc.,
one of the nation’s largest fundraising campaign consulting firms, and serves as its president and CEO. Over the last two decades,
the firm has conducted more than 1,700 campaigns that have raised billions of dollars. The organization now has more than 2,000
nonprofit clients world-wide. Hartsook established the Robert F. Hartsook Chair in Fundraising at the Center on Philanthropy, the
nation’s first endowed chair in fundraising.
Karen Lake Buttrey has long been active in community service in Indianapolis and has served on the boards of a number of nonprofit
organizations. An alumna of Chatham College, she holds graduate degrees in education from the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana
University. Buttrey currently serves on the board of trustees of Chatham College and on the advisory board of the Lake Family Institute
on Faith & Giving at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. The institute explores the integral links between religion and
philanthropy and how spiritual values influence philanthropic action.
Dr. Uday Sukhatme is executive vice chancellor and dean of the faculties at IUPUI. Before coming to Indiana, he was dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences and professor of physics at SUNY at Buffalo. He previously served as interim vice provost for academic programs,
associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, and head of the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds
a S.B. and a Sc.D. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a B.Sc. (Honors) degree in Mathematics from the
University of Delhi, India.
Harriet Ivey has been president and CEO of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust since its establishment in 1998. The trust primarily
funds in the Indianapolis, IN and Phoenix, AZ areas. She is a former executive director of the Fannie Mae Foundation and vice president
of community relations of the Fannie Mae corporation. A founding member and past chairman of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers,
she also has served as a trustee of many national, local and Washington, DC nonprofit organizations. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
with honors, she has been a member of the Center on Philanthropy’s board since 2002.
Gail L. Freeman, founder and President of Freeman Philanthropic Services, LLC, has more than 25 years of experience in philanthropy, not-for-profit
management, and executive recruitment. She serves on the boards of ePhilanthropyFoundation.org., AFP Foundation for Philanthropy International, and
other organizations, including The New School Milano Graduate School, where she graduated with honors from the Masters Program in Nonprofit Management.
Freeman has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, The New School Milano Graduate School, and C.W. Post College of Long Island University,
and is a frequent speaker and contributing author for industry journals.
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, a part of the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis, is a leading academic center dedicated to increasing the understanding of philanthropy, improving its practice and enhancing philanthropic
participation through research, teaching, public service and public affairs programs in philanthropy, fundraising, and management of nonprofit organizations.
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