Tis the Season...Who's Giving?


 

Publication Date: April 2007

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Arthur Brooks

Research Area: Banking and finance; Social conditions

Keywords: Religion; Giving

Type: Speech

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Charitable giving is about values, and the root, largely, is faith. More than nine in 10 religious people give money every year versus 66 percent of people who are secular; 67 percent of religious people give their time by volunteering versus 44 percent of the secular community; and religious people give about four times as much money away.