Web Contents ix
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Authors xxvii
PART ONE Acknowledging the Differences 1
1 Women Are Not Little Men 3
2 The Power of the Purse 19
PART TWO The Hows and Whys of Women’s Philanthropy 33
3 From Bag Ladies to Bold Divas: The Media and Changing Stereotypes 35
4 Women’s Giving: The Six Cs Plus Three 43
5 Stages, Styles, and Generations 65
PART THREE Building Bridges to the Other Half 93
6 Nonprofits’ Future: Gender-Sensitive Development 95
7 Bringing Women to the Table 117
8 Women’s Philanthropy Programs and Giving Circles 133
9 Taught or Caught: Donor Education 155
PART FOUR The Future of Philanthropy 179
10 Bold Women Giving Boldly: New Frontiers of Women’s Philanthropy 181
11 The Age of Women’s Philanthropy 205
Resource A: Focus Group Sample Questions 215
Resource B: The Million Dollar Exercise 217
Resource C: What’s It All About? Money and Me 221
Resource D: Experiences with Philanthropy: Current Giving Patterns and Family Values 223
Resource E: The Power of the Purse 225
Resource F: Resource Papers 229
Notes 231
Index 247
Sondra Shaw-Hardy is one of the founders of the women's giving circle movement and cofounder of the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. She is the author of Women's Giving Circles: Reflections From the Founders and coauthor of Youth Giving Circles and Reinventing Fund-raising: Realizing the Potentialof Women's Philanthropy. Martha A. Taylor is a vice president at the University of Wisconsin Foundation where she established the first women's philanthropy initiative at a public university. She is the cofounder of the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and coauthor of Reinventing Fundraising: Realizing the Potential of Women's Philanthropy. Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz is the communications director at the Association of the Baltimore Area Grantmakers and a founder of the Women's Giving Circle of Howard County. She is the coauthor of A Plan of One's Own: A Woman's Guide to Philanthropy and Growing Philanthropy Through Giving Circles.
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