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Backscratching Philanthropy Sows Havoc

…made toxic by mortgages pumped into non-creditworthy households. The economic trauma caused by the subprime-mortgage mess damaged family incomes and national prosperity for years thereafter. Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner,…

Fighting Poverty in a Personal Way

…of many households. The donors first divided their city into manageable districts, to enable the one-on-one relationships between assisters and assisted that keep charity humane, differentiated, and efficient. They put…

Idea-based Philanthropy in New York City

…for the cost of living, high-income households in the New York metropolitan area give more to charity than in any other city—on average, nearly 9 percent of their disposable income….

Saving Bosnians and Serbs

…main gas lines. But only about 10 percent of households were connected to gas at that time, so Cuny bought miles of small plastic piping and Soros’s foundation enlisted 15,000…

Flint, Michigan

…health care, and various kinds of short- and medium-term relief for households. “There are needs out there that just can’t wait for the state to appropriate the money and wait…

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Oseola McCarty

…70 and 90 percent of U.S. households make charitable contributions every year, with the average household contribution being about $2,500. That is two to 20 times as much generosity as…

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Bill Daniels

that broadcast for only eight hours daily, he won 4,000 subscribing households—about a third of the total homes in the area. Before long, he found himself traveling all across the…