The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library brings Lewis Black and More to You! - Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library

We are so excited to share our growing VIRTUAL Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library (KVML) with glimpses of Vonnegut-related tours and treasures, works of art, readings, presentations, and installations while our brick and mortar building at 543 Indiana Avenue is temporarily closed. To keep these programs coming, won’t you please consider donating to KVML?

Or join with a membership and enjoy discounts to the super cool items in our online store. Your donation will ensure that we can continue KVML’s mission, which is to champion Kurt Vonnegut and the principles of free expression and common decency. It helps us provide crucial & creative programming, suicide prevention training, payments for artists & performers for upcoming new programming, and educational content to bring great messages of Kurt to you. Thank you for helping us bring the wisdom of Kurt to one and all. And for your viewing pleasure, here’s a special Slapstick reading from our Honorary Board Member Lewis Black in his first public appearance since he went into lock down. It’s pure Lewis Black entertainment.

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Kathi Badertscher, PhD

Director of Graduate Programs at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Kathi Badertscher, PhD, is Director of Graduate Programs at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Dr. Badertscher teaches a variety of BA, MA, and doctoral courses, including Applying Ethics in Philanthropy and History of Philanthropy. She has participated in several Teaching Vonnegut workshops and is a member of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. Dr. Badertscher has been a guest speaker on ethics in philanthropy, including at the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners – Indianapolis Council; Association of Fundraising Professionals – Indiana Chapter; and Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. In 2019 she received IUPUI Office for Women, Women’s Leadership Award for Newcomer Faculty. In 2019 and 2020 she received the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Graduate Teaching Award.

Dr. Badertscher’s publications include “Fundraising for Advocacy and Social Change,” co-authored with Shariq Siddiqui in Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, 5th ed., 2022; “Insulin at 100: Indianapolis, Toronto, Woods Hole, and the ‘Insulin Road,’ co-authored with Christopher Rutty, Pharmacy in History (2020); and three articles in the Indiana Magazine of History: “A New Wishard Is on the Way,” “Evaline Holliday and the Work of Community Service,” and “Social Networks in Indianapolis during the Progressive Era.” Her chapters on social welfare history will appear in three upcoming edited volumes on the history of philanthropy, including “The Legacy of Edna Henry and Her Contributions to the IU School of Social Work,” Women at Indiana University: Views of the Past and the Future, edited by Andrea Walton, Indiana University Press, 2022 (forthcoming). Dr. Badertscher is also the Philanthropy and Nonprofits Consulting Editor for the forthcoming Digital Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, edited by David J. Bodenhamer and Elizabeth Van Allen, Indiana University Press, 2021. Dr. Badertscher is an active volunteer in the Indianapolis community. At present, she is a Coburn Place Safe Haven Board Member and a Children’s Bureau/Families First Brand and Marketing Advisor. Dr. Badertscher holds the MA in History from Indiana University and the MA and PhD in philanthropic studies from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.