Finance committee  I've looked at it. Corporate giving is a very pale...it's at a very modest level compared to giving by individuals and households. If I recall, it's somewhere around $2 billion compared with somewhere up above $8 billion to $10 billion for individuals and households.

Finance committee  To pick one of several, I would say in particular targeting contributions from capital.

Finance committee  There are four sources of information, surveys, or programs that produce data on charitable giving. No one of them has a monopoly on accuracy and precision. The stuff that comes from the income tax returns has some absolute strengths and advantages, but in other respects it has

Finance committee  There is a great deal of care that has to be used.

Finance committee  But it's going to tell a different story.

Finance committee  Oh yes, for sure, because it's a different kind of measurement.

Finance committee  Point number one is that it takes a generation to create a generation of civically active people. It's a learned process. Giving public prominence to this activity, not to individuals necessarily but to the activity, and the difference that it makes in our society, as well as pub

Finance committee  I've only done back-of-envelope kinds of calculations, and they don't count here.

Finance committee  It will be of greatest advantage to those who are already currently serious, systematic, and probably large-amount donors. It will contribute some increase in the dollars that are contributed charitably. What is it going to do in terms of increasing the number of donors, or cha

Finance committee  I've already said more than I know. I'm simply dropping this out for discussion. There is an incredible pool of capital in the baby boom generation. There has been, to my knowledge, close to no research on this, on how it's going to be used. There has been some excellent resear

Finance committee  Perhaps I can tell you why, and after that I'll tell you what my answer is.

Finance committee  We don't know very much about the difference between giving from income and giving from assets, from capital, but I think it's reasonable to expect that giving from capital, when there is substantial capital, is a lot less painful than giving from income, meaning from what you're

Finance committee  I would say yes. The more dramatic a situation, the greater the giving, such as Haiti. The tsunami in Southeast Asia, etc., produced enormous volumes of charitable money. The 9/11 event in New York City produced an extraordinary outpouring. If the objective is to foster giving a

Finance committee  The civic core has several parts to it. The really hard core massive givers spend enormous time volunteering and so on. That primary core represents something like 8% of the adult population, and it has shrunk by perhaps 1% or 1.5% over a decade. The primary and secondary core,

Finance committee  All the items you listed are contributing to an attenuation, a weakening, as is the movement away from religion. Religion is really the spark plug for civic activity. On the other hand, there's a counter factor as well, and that's university education. Fundamentally, one of the