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George McCully Ph.D.
George McCully has had two careers—first for 20 years as professor of Renaissance
and Reformation history and related fields, chasing a disappearing job market at
Barnard and Columbia, Swarthmore, ...view moreGeorge McCully has had two careers—first for 20 years as professor of Renaissance
and Reformation history and related fields, chasing a disappearing job market at
Barnard and Columbia, Swarthmore, Princeton, Yale and Wellesley. After a brief stint
as a faculty dean at Brown, he entered professional philanthropy as a grant-maker
for research in the sciences and humanities worldwide. By 1983 and in the next 35
years he became a full-time independent consultant in all functions of philanthropy,
among many others serving as founding Board Chair of the national Center for Plant
Conservation, longtime institution-development consultant of the Boston Early Music
Festival, and trustee of the Ellis L. Phillips Foundation. In 1996 he turned to promoting
charitable giving through donor education. He created the Massachusetts Catalogue for
Philanthropy which led to a doubling of the Commonwealth’s giving from $2-4 billion
in only four years; the “Generosity Index” comparing all states’ ranks in income and
charitable giving, which quickly became the nation’s leading journalistic philanthropy
story header and was chosen by the White House Council of Economic Advisors for
their Weekly Economic Briefing of the President; State Giving Days, adopted by the
governors of 22 States; and a series of articles proposing a transformation of American
philanthropy’s conceptualization and structure, designing a national donor-oriented
system of state-based directories to all charities, a model of which was in 2016 granted
the first U.S. patent for philanthropy. With this book he has returned to his original
scholarly training and is now semi-retired and living in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.view less