Klaudia Szilagyi

Did you know that philanthropic gifts from U.S. donors in 2013 resulted in a significant increase and that most of those donors were men? According to an article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, ranking of the 50 donors who give the most to charitable causes shows that the nation’s wealthy contributed $7.7-billion last year, 4 percent more than in 2012. Most of these donors were men; 23 earned their wealth in either finance or investments, 12 in real estate, six in technology, and the rest from a mix of other pursuits or inheritances. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, and his…

Philanthropy News Digest (PND): In April, the Robin Hood Foundation, in partnership with the Columbia Population Research Center, released the results from its first Poverty Tracker survey, a first-of-its-kind effort to examine income poverty, material hardship, and health in New York City. Based on a sample of twenty-three hundred households across the city’s five boroughs, the data from the survey reveals that poverty and hardship are even worse for New York City residents than official government measures indicate. Recently, PND spoke with Michael Weinstein, chief program officer and senior vice president at Robin Hood, about the results of the first…