You Give, I'll Take
The Take is on an extended turkey break, resting up to return with great vigor and passion next week. I will, however, kick off the official giving season (50% of all charitable giving by individuals and families is done between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve) by appearing on Jean Chatzky's radio show on XM's Oprah and Friends station on Thursday.
Labels: Jean Chatzky, Oprah and Friends, Trent Stamp's Take
posted by Trent Stamp at 11:17 AM
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Holiday greetings! While on the subject of year-end giving, I thought I might share results from a study very recently released by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University: "American Express Charitable Gift Survey." Among other information about the ways individuals give, the study found that on average, people make 24 percent of their annual donations between Thankgiving and New Year's... Nearly 30 percent of higher income households (those with income of $100,000 or more) said that they give less at the holidays than they do at other times.
You can find the report at: www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/Research/giving_fundraising_research.aspx#amex
I don't understand sometimes, I have worked and have put into social security and now I am disabled and my husband that had the only income in our household is now my caretaker do to the fact that Social security has denied my claim and now I find out that the state is reducing my food stamps becuase my husband isn't working We are close to losing our house and we won't have food either. I am really sorry that I could not afford to adopt a family for christmas But I don't even think that we will have christmas. what is the point of donating to these charities Like my husband and I have done every year since we were married (10 years) if they slam the door in your face when you yourself need help or you get the run around?
I'll bite.....
I used to be one of those people earning over $100k a year. (I'm retired now.) I tended to give more around late spring rather than the holidays. Food banks get a deluge of donations around the holidays, and the lean times are actually in late spring and early summer.... which dovetailed nicely with my own financial affairs.
- larry
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