Browsing by Subject "Religious Giving"

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    Generosity Traditions
    (Center for Social Concerns, 2024) Herzog, Patricia Snell
    This practitioner-engaged article reflects on the role of higher education and research endeavors in understanding generosity. As part of a higher education for human flourishing initiative, this publications seeks to issue an open invitation to a conversation, a community, and a set of contested aspirations for how we ought to live together in this world and how higher education might serve those aspirations. The focus of this article is on generosity in major world faith traditions, followed by a spotlight on giving habits.
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    Inclusive Philanthropy
    (Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), 2020) Pasic, Amir; Osili, Una; Rooney, Patrick; Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Herzog, Patricia Snell; King, David; Practor, Andrea; Siddiqui, Shariq
    In this practitioner-engaged article, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy explain problems with limiting what counts as philanthropy since a narrow approach curtails understanding of scope and social value. The authors assert a more expansive approach is essential for creating a more equitable and democratic society. Inclusive giving practices include certain types of social media campaigns, giving circles, religious giving, workplace giving. The article concludes with a call for everyday citizens to engage in giving and thus balance undue influence to only the wealthy by fostering many voices amid financial and social resource channels.
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    Reconciling Estimates of Religious Giving
    (2004-11) Brown, Melissa; Harris, Joseph Claude; Rooney, Patrick
    Since religious organizations have long been the single largest type of recipient of American giving, the authors undertook in 2003 to examine the Giving USA estimating procedure for giving to religion and compare Giving USA estimates with other approaches for estimating contributions to religion. The yearbook of philanthropy since 1955, Giving USA uses research done by other organizations to estimate giving to religion. Two studies form the basis of Giving USA's estimates. The first is a report from INDEPENDENT SECTOR, which used a national survey of congregations and estimated total giving to religion of $50 billion for 1986. The second is the annual rate of change in giving to religion, which is derived from denominational reports compiled annually by the National Council of Churches of Christ-USA. Since 2002, data about Catholic parish giving has been incorporated into the denominational list that is the basis of the estimated rate of change in giving to religion year to year.
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    Religious and Secular Giving, by Race and Ethnicity
    (2004) Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Steinberg, Richard
    In this article, the authors advance the literature on whether apparent differences in the giving and volunteering of black versus white, or Hispanic versus other families, are real. They employ new data, COPPS, that help to determine whether the differences are due to race and ethnicity themselves or a variety of factors that are correlated with these labels.
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    Religious Giving
    (2007-12-18) Rooney, Patrick
    Religious giving has grown every year in both nominal and inflation-adjusted dollars since it has been tracked by Giving USA in 1955. Even during recessions, religious giving has grown, but it has grown relatively slowly averaging only 2% per year over the last 40 years compared to 5% per year for total giving. Over the last decade religious giving has grown 2.1% per year vs. 6.5% per year for total giving. The result is that religious giving as a share of total giving has fallen dramatically from over one-half for many years to under one-third today. In spite of the fact that many talk of the Biblical tithe, the author finds that less than 3% of US households give 10% or more to religious organizations and only 8.3% give 5% or more of their income to religion (including the 2.6% who give 10% or more). The paper also finds substantial variation in average giving levels by various religious affiliations. However, virtually all of the major religious affiliations for which there was data in both 1987/89 and 2001, the author found religious giving as a share of income has fallen by between one-fourth and three-fourths and that most faiths have experienced a decline of approximately one-third. The paper finds that income and wealth are important predictors of how much households donate and that tax itemizers give more than non-itemizers, even after controlling for differences in income and wealth. Marrieds and those with more children give more to religion. Religious giving grows with educational attainment but does not vary by race or ethnicity after controlling for income, wealth, etc. Not surprisingly, those with a religious affiliation give more than those without and those who are unemployed give significantly less than those who are employed.
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    Religious Giving in Uncertain Times: Insights for Congregations and Faith-Based Nonprofits
    (2008-11-20) Lake Institute on Faith & Giving
    We have had numerous inquiries as to the implications of the current financial crisis on religious giving and subsequent budget planning for congregations and faith-based institutions. While we have no crystal ball to provide you with definitive answers, we are pleased to share with you insights from the research available to us via the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. We will also offer some practical suggestions and guidelines based on our observations and conversations with leaders of faith-based institutions and organizations.
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    Types of Givers: Ideas for Engaging Different Donors
    (Faith+Leader Stewardship, 2023-08-21) Herzog, Patricia Snell
    How do people approach giving to charitable and religious causes? In studying answers to the question, we found that the answer is that there is no one way. Yet, it is not the other extreme either, and the oft-repeated phrase everyone is unique is not helpful. Between these two extremes is a balanced approach in which there are discernable types of givers, and these can inform donor communication. Through a national representative survey and follow-up in-person interviews, we learned from thousands of everyday Americans about the ways they go about their giving.