Charitable Giving for U.S. Health Care Rises a Tepid $241 Million in 2008, While Canadian Charitable Giving Plunges 13 Percent, Association for Health

Charitable donations to benefit U.S. health care grew by $241-million, to $8.6-billion, in 2008, a 2.9 percent growth. In Canada health-care giving plummeted by nearly 13 percent, to just under $1.1-billion. The slight bump in U.S. medical giving resulted from most nonprofit hospitals and health-care systems closing their books before the recession hit with full force in the final quarter of 2008, the association reported. Institutions that closed at end of the calendar year reported a 0.2 percent fund-raising dip.

Full-text post by Kathy Renzetti is available via the New York Post, 10/26/09.

Charity Industry Gets Some Needed Scrutiny

A new kind of equity analyst, the "charity analyst," has emerged in the past few years to meet the needs of people who want their charitable dollars used efficiently and effectively. As a natural consequence of this sort of research, effective charities can be expected to prosper and ineffective charities can be expected to perish.

Full text article by Neil Reynolds is available via The Globe and Mail, 8.14.09.