What the Black Church Taught Me about Generosity, and What It Means for Faith and Philanthropy Today! with Tyrone McKinley Freeman, PhD

Reflections on the many gifts and giving traditions of the Black Church and its historic legacy in the freedom movement as shared by an award-winning scholar of philanthropy who is the son, grandson, nephew and cousin of Black Baptist preachers and First Ladies.

Dr. Tyrone McKinley Freeman is the Glenn Family Chair in Philanthropy at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy where he teaches and researches fundraising, the history of philanthropy, Black philanthropy and Africana Studies. Formerly a fundraiser in community development, youth and family social services, and higher education organizations, he also served as Associate Director of The Fund Raising School where he trained fundraisers in the US, Asia, Africa, and Europe. His book, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow , won Association of Fundraising Professionals Skystone Partners Research Prize, the Terry McAdam Book Award, the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize, and the F3 Madam Walker Legacy Award. He is a 2022 recipient of the Dan David Research Prize—“the largest history prize in the world”—and a proud HBCU alum of Lincoln University (PA). He is married to his LU sweetheart, Michelle, and they have two young adult children, Alexander and Olivia.