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Charitable giving in D.C. is well below the national average

In fact, when you look at the data, our community is punching well below its weight when it comes to charitable ... and our giving rate is 7.3 percent lower than the average for the nation’s 50 ... read more

'Extraordinarily high': Two postcodes stand out for charitable giving

The World Giving Index released on ... AFR Australia performed especially well for its share of financial donors. Over the decade an average of 68 per cent of Australians reported making a donation to ... read more

Why Albertans give so much money to charity (but shouldn't be too smug about it)

Per person, Albertans donate more money to charity than people in any other ... On a per-capita basis, Alberta is well above of the national giving average, while Quebec is far below. And it's been ... read more

How States Stack Up in Generosity

Over all, the typical household donated 3.9 percent of its discretionary income to charity, well below the national average. The rate of giving among Iowans making $50,000 to $100,000 in discretionary ... read more

Greater Seattle punches below its weight in philanthropy

According to a new report by Bridgespan Consulting, in 2017 the ultra wealthy gave just 1.2 percent of their net worth, which for nearly all of them is well below the ... Seattle’s charitable giving ... read more

How Forbes Picked America’s Top Charities For 2019—And What To Look For In Yours

The lone first-time-ever member of the list has a well ... charity had more expenses than revenue. A negative ratio (below 0%) means the charity had an annual surplus greater than all private ... read more

Giving USA 2013: Giving Coming Back Slowly and Different After Recession

But as of 2012, giving is still well below pre-recession ... to the big three national DAF sponsors—Schwab, Fidelity, and Vanguard—were up 44 percent in 2012 as compared to the previous year, ... read more

Australians aren't giving to charities like they used to

Older Australians, on average, give more to charity than their younger counterparts. Australians aren’t donating to charities as much as they have previously. According to the National Australia ... read more

12 Days Of Charitable Giving: Ride For Reading

It's the ninth day of our 12 Days of Charitable Giving! In December ... According to the Department of Education, on average, welfare recipients ages 17 to 21 read at the sixth-grade level, well below ... read more

How to support good causes this Christmas with little effort - including a nifty tool that donates percentage of your online shop to charity...

The average Briton ... rate of interest and giving the additional money to the charity directly yourself. Katie Brain, banking expert at Defaqto However, access to the fund is limited to savers ... read more

5 Things to Know About Donor-Advised Funds

Enter the donor-advised fund, or DAF, a charitable ... below. Although DAFs make up only 12 percent of individual giving, with grants of $23.4 billion in 2018, these funds are the fastest-growing form ... read more

Five myths about tax reform

Obama, for example, wants to cap, but not eliminate, the tax break for charitable giving. His stimulus expanded the ... the corporate tax rate in the United States was well below the international ... read more