Wednesday, June 24, 2009

No time like the present to get back in the giving mood

No time like the present to get back in the giving mood: "Melissa Brown, associate director at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, said, 'The way the economy goes determines how charity goes.' Brown also stated that although 70 percent of Americans typically give about 3 percent of their income to charity, the average individual donation dropped from $225 in 2007 to $190 last year.

According to Rapidata's Charity Direct Debit Tracking Report 2009, cancellation rates of direct debit contributions to charities skyrocketed from 50 percent in September to an astounding 67 percent in Decembe"

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