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Elizabeth Le’anani Coffee

Managing director, Lake Institute on Faith and Giving

Elizabeth Leanani Coffee is the managing director of the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Previously she served as the director of storytelling at the H.E. Butt Foundation in San Antonio, Texas, and as South Texas Regional Coordinator at the Baptist General Convention of Texas. She is a graduate of Abilene Christian Unversity and Indiana University Indianapolis. Coffee serves as an advisor to Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

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Apply for Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Exploring Christian Practices Initiative 

The Exploring Christian Practices Initiative aims to multiply opportunities and increase access to settings that help individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds explore and engage in Christian practices to address their spiritual interests and questions, find and build community with others, nourish their religious lives and grow in faith. 

An Interest Form and Letter of Interest are due March 25, 2026. Complete proposals are due May 18, 2026.

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