Summer 2015 – Books in Brief
…interviews with generous and ungenerous households. We meet one family who don’t have time or interest in charity as they pursue financial triumph, a weekend home by the beach, and…
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Geographic Impact
…accounts held in each state. DAFs are concentrated in states where households are more likely to be relatively affluent and itemize their tax returns—a function of both relative income and…
Winter 2017 – Males Beyond the Pale
…their households in non- income-producing ways like caring for children or elderly family members, doing household chores, or participating in religious and charitable causes. “To a distressing degree, these men…
SOS: Stopping Opioid Slaughter
…opioids has broken down the isolation of households and encouraged community bonds. Shot in the dark An opioid overdose occurs when the drug attaches to so many “receptors” in a…
Spring 2018 – Supporting Better Choices
…to see done in their neighborhoods? There are many low-income households capable of achieving good things when they have options and problem-solving tools, instead of just impersonal transfers and mass…
Wishful Thinking
…and a half. Under 40 percent of households headed by someone under 40 now give any money to charity. These results were anticipated by sociologist Jean Twenge, who examined 40…
America’s Disappearing Givers
…by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University found that in 2006, 66 percent of American households gave to charity. In 2014, that number had dropped to just…
Americana
…Americans in a powerful way. Sixty-five percent of U.S. households make charitable contributions every year, with the average household contribution being $2,213. That is three to seven times as much…
Back to Bill
…only eight hours daily, he won 4,000 subscribing households—about a third of the total homes in the area. Daniels soon added other cable systems in Farmington, New Mexico, and Rawlins,…
Natural Advantages
…individuals giving at an average rate of about $3,000 per household. If that doesn’t sound like much, just multiply it by close to a hundred million households and see what…
Road Trip
…community members, Franklin gradually built up a faith-based nonprofit that now offers these fragile households not only housing, but forms of companionship and services capable of bridging them to competence…
Gifts of Health
…households, and the number of TB clinics jumped from 18 to 1,324 in a little more than a decade. This “people’s philanthropy” became a model for subsequent popular crusades…