The former Social Welfare Research Institute has been renamed the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy (CWP, pronounced swep).

         

Director Paul G. Schervirsh, says, "The change in name to the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy catches up with the increasingly exclusive focus of our work over the past two decades on the trends, meaning, motivations, and practice of wealth and philanthropy. It also coincides with a new program of executive education that we will be offering to wealth holders, fundraisers, and financial professionals."

 

The Center studies and publishes research on a variety of topics pertinent to the non-profit sector.  New research projects include the economic and spiritual aspects of philanthropic decision-making, and a study of the financial and philanthropic plans that result from that decision-making.

 

Future Services Will Include:

*Providing regional, state, and metropolitan area wealth transfer estimates;

 

*A new executive education program for financial professionals, development professionals, and wealth holders;

 

*National estimates of the forthcoming intergenerational transfer of wealth based on an updated Wealth Transfer Microsimulation Model;

 

*Findings on patterns and trends of charitable giving by wealth holders; and

 

*Plans to study regional patterns of charitable giving.

 

The Center on Wealth and Philanthropy’s Advisory Board includes:

 

Lorna Lathrum, Former Founding President of the Omidyar Foundation

 

John T. Losier, Past President and Chief Executive Officer, Philips Electronics North America

 

J. Donald Monan, S. J., Chancellor, Boston College

 

Thomas B. Murphy, The T. B. Murphy Foundation Charitable Trust

 

Scott G. Nichols, Dean of Development, Harvard Law School

 

The Center also offers a website with valuable information for fundraisers such as, “Why the $41 Trillion Wealth Transfer Estimate is Still Valid:  A Review of Challenges and Questions.”  To access their website, go to: www.bc.edu/research/swri