Giving USA 2010
June 15th, 2010
Charitable Giving for 2009 Down by 3.6 %
The Giving USA 2010 Annual Report on charitable giving was recently released on June 9, 2010. Although charitable giving in 2009 fell 3.6 percent, the results are not as dire as Giving USA had initially predicted, and the drop was attributed directly to the recession. Americans donated $303.74 billion in 2009, which is the third straight year that charitable giving reached over $300 billion.
Giving USA found that Americans gave more to environmental, human services, animal-related and international affairs groups and less to education, arts, culture and humanities organizations in 2009.
For more information on the Giving USA 2010 Annual Report, please visit http://www.givingusa2010.org/.
The Giving USA Foundation is an organization dedicated to "advancing the research, education and public understanding of philanthropy", and has published a report each year since 1956 supplying data and reports of charitable giving for the previous year.
Posted by CNP Staff
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