Pamala Wiepking

I am the Stead Family Chair in International Philanthropy at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Professor of Societal Significance of Charity Lotteries at the Center for Grantmaking Research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I study cross-national and interdisciplinary explanations of philanthropy. I aim to create more generous, equitable and just societies and I am the 2017 UMD SPP Do Good Institute-ARNOVA Award for Global Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership recipient for leadership in international philanthropy and nonprofit research. I have published (co-)authored research on philanthropic behavior in –among others– Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Voluntas, the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing. I am co-editor (with Femida Handy) of the Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy, which won the 2016 ARNOVA Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize. I am a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing and the Journal of Civil Society. In 2023, I co-edited (with Beth Breeze and Donna Day Lafferty) The Fundraising Reader, a one-stop resource containing 88 essential extracts from key writing on fundraising. I am also one of the founding members of the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP).