Connected to Give

Connected to Give

The Connected to Give report series offers important insights on religion and American charitable giving, challenging assumptions about where religious donors make charitable contributions and offering detailed information about behaviors and motivations among religious and non-religious Americans.

The reports’ findings and analysis are based on data from the National Study of American Jewish Giving and the National Study of American Religious Giving, which offer the first-ever nationwide portrait of the charitable behaviors and motivations of American Jews and Americans from other faith traditions. This breakthrough report series is the first comprehensive, demographically representative examination of household giving at every income level and background.

Connected to Give: Key Findings Connected to Give: Jewish Legacies Connected to Give: Faith Communities

Connected to Give:
Key Findings

Connected to Give: Key Findings, the initial report in the series, examines the relationship between the charitable giving behavior of American Jews and their key demographics (especially age and income); their motivations for giving; the types of organizations to which they contribute (both Jewish and non-Jewish); and comparisons with giving patterns among non-Jewish Americans.

Connected to Give:
Jewish Legacies

Connected to Give: Jewish Legacies, the second report in the series, compares Jews on all sides of planned giving – those with and without wills, those whose wills do and do not contain provisions for charitable bequests, and those whose charitable bequests do and do not include Jewish causes.

Connected to Give:
Faith Communities

Connected to Give: Faith Communities is the third report in the series. It compares the charitable giving behaviors of Americans from a variety of backgrounds, including their key demographics; examines their motivations for giving; and outlines the types of organizations to which they contribute.

Connected to Give: Synagogues & Movements Connected to Give: Community Circle Connected to Give: Risk and Relevance

Connected to Give:
Synagogues and Movements

Connected to Give: Synagogues and Movements, the fourth report in the series, explores charitable giving by American Jews who are members of Jewish congregations and/or identify with a religious movement, with a special focus on Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform affiliates.

Connected to Give:
Community Circles

Connected to Give: Community Circles is the fifth report in the series. It outlines the demographics of giving circle participation and, through interviews with participants in African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Jewish, LGBT, women’s, and Millennial-generation giving circles, examines how people explore and express shared identities through collaborative giving.

Connected to Give:
Risk & Relevance

Connected to Give: Risk and Relevance, the sixth report in the series, focuses on issues of particular concern to American religious and ethnic communities as they face increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in the philanthropic environment. It looks at how donors balance tradition and innovation, the importance of organizations’ trustworthiness relative to their track records, the role of political ideology, and how religiously affiliated donors balance in-group giving with more universal concerns; it also offers an overview of social giving (including charitable crowdfunding, giving circles, and microlending).

Connected to Give: National Study Of American Jewish Giving Frequencies

Connected to Give: National Study Of American Jewish Giving
Frequencies

The core Jewish research instrument for Connected to Give is the National Study of American Jewish Giving, a national survey of 2,911 American Jewish households. (Mixed households of Jews and non-Jews are included in the NSAJG; other mixed households not containing Jews are included in the National Study of American Religious Giving.) The survey instrument used to measure giving largely replicated Indiana University’s biennial Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS) and Bank of America Studies of High Net Worth Philanthropy. Indiana University’s giving instrument, first fielded in 2001, as a module within the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, serves as the benchmark measure for American charitable giving. Professor Steven M. Cohen, of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive, supplied selected Jewish engagement questions used in numerous Jewish community studies across the United States.

Connected to Give: National Study Of American Religious Giving Frequencies

Connected to Give: National Study Of American Jewish Giving
Frequencies

The core Jewish research instrument for Connected to Give is the National Study of American Jewish Giving, a national survey of 2,911 American Jewish households. (Mixed households of Jews and non-Jews are included in the NSAJG; other mixed households not containing Jews are included in the National Study of American Religious Giving.) The survey instrument used to measure giving largely replicated Indiana University’s biennial Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS) and Bank of America Studies of High Net Worth Philanthropy. Indiana University’s giving instrument, first fielded in 2001, as a module within the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, serves as the benchmark measure for American charitable giving. Professor Steven M. Cohen, of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) and the Berman Jewish Policy Archive, supplied selected Jewish engagement questions used in numerous Jewish community studies across the United States.

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