Charitable Giving by State: New Methods and Measures for Geographic Giving Relative to Income
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This paper (1) appraises The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s widely disseminated and reported indices ranking states on their relative level of charitable giving, and (2) presents a different set of rankings based on a more valid research methodology, what we call the CWP (Center on Wealth and Philanthropy) Index. Our more precise methods raise important questions for the community of nonprofit scholars about the validity of The Chronicle’s widely disseminated and widely quoted November 2014 study that concluded in part that red states being more “generous” than blue states.
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