Events from June 19, 2025 – June 22, 2025 – Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library

February 2026
Black Composers Lecture & Concert

February 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library 543 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, United States

Join local musicians Trevor Conerly and Andrew Brown on February 7th for a lecture on African American Composers from the past century. Each vignette will will feature information about their […]

$15
HEART HEALTH AWARENESS – Free CPR Training

February 9 - February 16

Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library 543 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, United States

We invite you to stop by the museum February 9-16 to explore our cardiac education digital information kiosk made possible by the Eric N. Prystowsky, MD Cardiac Arrhythmia Center-Ascension St. Vincent […]
April 2026
An Evening with Sarah D. Phillips

April 10 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library 543 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, IN, United States

Join us for a for a fascinating evening with Indiana University professor and author Sarah D. Phillips, whose groundbreaking book Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR uncovers a little-known chapter of Vonnegut’s global legacy: […]

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.

February 2026

Black Composers Lecture & Concert

HEART HEALTH AWARENESS – Free CPR Training

April 2026

An Evening with Sarah D. Phillips

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