This video, featuring Amparo Diaz, is part of a series designed to provide course participants with a series of presentations about philanthropy, giving, and fundraising within the Latine and Hispanic communities.

This event with Jonathan Reckford, Habitat for Humanity CEO, was an opportunity to explore the role of the faith community in bridgebuilding and how service is the ultimate antidote to our polarized world.

This video, featuring Dr. Daisy Machado, is part of a series designed to provide course participants with a series of presentations about philanthropy, giving, and fundraising within the Latine and Hispanic communities.

This video, featuring Dr. Philip Wingeier-Rayo, is part of a series designed to provide course participants with a series of presentations about philanthropy, giving, and fundraising within the Latine and Hispanic communities.

In this conversation with Rabbi Adam Miller and Elizabeth Le'anani Coffee, Dr. Jack Wertheimer speaks about the history of Jewish giving and Jewish giving practices in the present day.

Erica Dollhopf, Ph.D., Meredith McNabb, and Dr. Carlos Perkins explore the newest data on religious giving and share key insights from the Giving USA 2025 report.

At this crucial moment, when homelessness is exploding, affordable housing is diminishing, and segregated communities are increasingly common, we need to ask the question – “Are our built environments fundamentally immoral?” In this year’s talk, Dr. Jennings invites us to imagine how a faithful practice of giving might build new realities of community in our towns and cities.

At its core, philanthropy is about relationships, but in our increasingly polarized and disconnected world, how do we form these relationships and develop a generosity of spirit? Our religious traditions have often demonstrated the essential nature of relationship between one another, within communities, as well as between the human and divine. As a renowned scholar of Jewish studies and a present-day leading voice for modeling dialogue across difference, Dr. Susannah Heschel will discuss the ways in which religion broadly and Jewish tradition specifically can help us better practice philanthropy as the love of humanity.

In this introductory video, you'll learn about the purpose and uses of Lake Institute's Faithful Generosity Story Shelf.

This short video highlights one AME congregation’s creative partnership with philanthropy and nonprofits to address environmental injustice, by easing the heat for communities of color and low-income neighborhoods through a “smart surfaces" coalition.