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New record: Americans give $300 billion to charity
“Americans gave nearly $300 billion to charitable causes last year, setting a new record and besting the 2005 total that had been boosted by a surge in aid to victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and the Asian tsunami.
Donors contributed an estimated $295.02 billion in 2006, a 1 percent increase when adjusted for inflation, up from $283.05 billion in 2005. Excluding donations for disaster relief, the total rose 3.2 percent, inflation-adjusted, according to an annual report released Monday by the Giving USA Foundation at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy.
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Individuals gave a combined 75.6 percent of the total. With bequests, that rises to 83.4 percent.
The biggest chunk of the donations, $96.82 billion or 32.8 percent, went to religious organizations. The second largest slice, $40.98 billion or 13.9 percent, went to education, including gifts to colleges, universities and libraries.
About 65 percent of households with incomes less than $100,000 give to charity, the report showed.
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Gaudiani said Americans give twice as much as the next most charitable country, according to a November 2006 comparison done by the Charities Aid Foundation. In philanthropic giving as a percentage of gross domestic product, the U.S. ranked first at 1.7 percent. No. 2 Britain gave 0.73 percent, while France, with a 0.14 percent rate, trailed such countries as South Africa, Singapore, Turkey and Germany.”
Ah, these crazy selfish Americans and their imperialistic ideas.
Who are they to try to help other people? What if people don’t want to have bathrooms inside the house? How about that uh?
Don’t these people know that this is all part of their plan to conquer the world?
Michael Moore needs to make a mockumentary about this. ASAP!
Advertising Age reports that around $100 million has been spent on the Red campaign blanketing billboards and magazines with images of Bono and other “celebrities”, while the total sum raised for Africa is $18 million.
Just to be clear…
Total spent on making Bono more famous = $100 million
Total spent on drugs for Africans = $18 million
(via MR)
“There are numbers that help put Warren Buffett’s remarkable $43.6 billion charitable pledge of 2006 in perspective:
- It’s close to the GDP of Slovakia.
- It’s about the market value of McDonald’s.
And one comparative figure is especially relevant as we present our annual list of the top donors in the United States: Buffett’s boffo moment nearly equals the total donations recorded in the Slate 60 for the previous six years combined—$44.9 billion.”
See The 2006 Slate 60 – The 60 largest American charitable contributions of the last year.
Also, check out this Bill Gates interview with Charlie Rose.
Goddamn capitalists.
Buffett donates $37 billion to charity.
Isso significa que a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation vai basicamente duplicar.
E um aspecto importante que nem todos entendem sobre essa mudança de empregos do Bill Gates, é que ele não está querendo simplesmente ficar fazendo photo ops e simplesmente distribuir dinheiro aos pobres. Ele quer descobrir maneiras eficientes de ajudar essas pessoas a sair da pobreza, assim como o objetivo da Microsoft era “colocar um computador em cada casa”.
If anyone can do it…
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