Now that we’ve gotten our heads around the size and structure of global charity, we’re ready to plunge into the questions “Where does the money come from?” and “Where does it go?”. But – I want to do that while striking a balance between data granularity and readability. We are talking about a grand total […]
First of all, why exactly should we care about the size of the charity “market”? Well, it’s interesting to know, for one thing. We might be looking forward to confirming our preconceptions, or to be surprised. Before I started writing this series, I had a kind of a sweet expectation that my research would land […]
Meet Jane. Jane owns a manufacturing company and has quite a bit of money, and she wants to use that money to help those in need. Specifically, she’d like to help people get out of poverty. Jane considers some options for how she might accomplish that: She can donate money to her local church that […]