Planned Giving Today
Editorial Advisory Board

MEMBER - Philip M. Purcell

Ball State University Foundation

Phil Purcell currently serves as the Vice President of Planned Giving and Endowment Resources at the Ball State University Foundation. Formerly, he served as director of gift planning for the Central Indiana Community Foundation (Indianapolis, IN) where he helped create and direct the Planned Giving Resource Center serving area charitable organizations.

Phil has also held positions with the St. Vincent Hospital Foundation as director of development and planned gifts and with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as director of planned giving and development counsel.

Phil currently serves on the Tax Exempt Organization Advisory Council (Great Lakes Region) for the Internal Revenue Service. He is a faculty member of the IU Center on Philanthropy's Fundraising School and an adjunct faculty member for the IU School of Law, teaching a course on Law and Philanthropy. Phil is past president of the Planned Giving Group of Indiana.

Phil received his B.A. degree from Wabash College (magna cum laude) in 1981 and his J.D. and M.P.A. degrees from Indiana University (with honors) in 1985.

Philip M. Purcell

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