IUPUI

Center on Philanthropy Board Elects New Members, Officers

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 Center on Philanthropy is part of the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

The center's 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."

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.

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.