philanthropy

Books

Beyond inertia

spring books 1999

May 19, 1999 by David Dawson

I am busy these days, so I'd just like to be able to sit down, write a straightforward review of David Ford's book, and be done with it. But I can't. This book has already begun to interfere with my life. It may even end up costing me real money. That check for the Kosovo relief effort I am now writing in my mind keeps getting outrageously larger. I worry that I might actually put it in the mail.

Books

Financing American Religion, edited by Mark Chaves and Sharon L. Miller

Sep 08, 1999 reviewed by Jerry Dean Weber

This compact, valuable book brings together the most important current research on faith and money. Mark Chaves, associate professor of sociology at the University of Arizona, and Sharon Miller, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Notre Dame, have gathered essays by such prominent scholars as Dean Hoge, John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, Robert Wuthnow, Loren Mead and John Mulder.

News

Religious groups see slight drop in giving

A Giving USA report

Jul 13, 2010

According to a study by Giving USA Foundation, religious organizations reported a 0.7 percent decrease in donations last year—a marked contrast from the 5.5 percent increase in giving reported in 2008.

News

Religious charities gain in a recession year

A Giving USA Foundation study
Jul 14, 2009
Religious organizations reported a 5.5 percent increase in donations last year, a marked contrast from the nationwide 2 percent decline in charitable giving, according to a study by the Giving USA Foundation.
News

Federal program funnels charity donations to special interest groups

The Combined Federal Campaign
Jan 13, 2009
Some of the nation’s most controversial public policy groups receive checks from Uncle Sam about this time each year, and the relatively little known practice is perfectly legal.
News

Briefly noted

Aug 26, 2008
Nine faith leaders have joined to urge senators Barack Obama and John McCain to present a ten-year plan to combat poverty at their nominating conventions.
Books

Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide—Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters

Arthur C. Brooks

Politics of charity

Jun 12, 2007 reviewed by James Halteman
This is a provocative book on charitable giving in the United States and a variety of other countries. Approximately 75 percent of U.S. households make charitable contributions each year.
Impressions

Gift list

A stewardship wedding and an altruistic registry
Aug 08, 2006 by James M. Wall
"Pay attention: These are our values." That’s what we’re saying when we make decisions about spending money or ask others to spend money on our behalf. For an engaged couple, it all starts with the wedding. Brides magazine reports that the average cost of a wedding today exceeds $19,000.
News

Souper Bowl and eBay auction raise money for needy

Innovative events successful for social ministry funds
Jul 11, 2006
Souper Bowl of Caring, the ecumenically promoted antihunger campaign that plays off the name of the annual professional football championship game, has collected $4.8 million, with donations still not fully reported as of last month.
News

Methodists channel sizable donations

Foreign and domestic funds for counseling and storm relief
Mar 21, 2006
United Methodist relief officials, chosen late last year by the U.S. to oversee a program to counsel hurricane victims that uses $66 million donated by foreign nations, recently announced that the denomination received more than $62 million from churchgoers during 2005 for storm relief and rehabilitation.