Tag: charitable giving
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Charities: Donations fall by record amount for top nonprofits
Christian Science Monitor: Charities: Donations fall by record amount for top nonprofits Charities' donations in 2009 fell 11 percent for the largest 400 US charitable groups. A new ranking of the 400 biggest U.S. charities shows donations dropped by 11 percent overall last year as the Great Recession ended — the worst decline in 20…
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US Maps: Worship Attendance, Charitable Giving, 2004 Presidential Election
Below are three maps. I posted the last two maps on Saturday. The first map is one I have constructed based on data from Gallup. It measures weekly or near weekly attendance at church or synagogue. The Charitable Giving and Election maps seem to correspond a little more tightly than the Church attendance maps, but…
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Charity Map
On Thursday, I reviewed Arthur Brooks's book Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism. The basic summary of Brook's findings is: …imagine two people: One goes to church every week and strongly rejects the idea that it is government’s responsibility to redistribute income between people who have a lot of money and people…
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“Who Really Cares?” Book Review
During the recent presidential campaign, conservative policymakers were heavily criticized for tax cuts. John Kerry used biblical language to decry these measures. In December 2005, Jim Wallis, the liberal Christian writer and political advocate, took this a step further in response to Republican budget cuts to social programs: “[Christian conservatives] are trading the lives of…