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What happens to charitable giving when the economy falters?

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, IUPUI
What happens to charitable giving when the economy falters?Will Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan quickly get money to charities?Peter Barreras/Invision/AP

As the new coronavirus pandemic sends the economy into a tailspin, Patrick Rooney, an economist at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, and Jon Bergdoll, a philanthropy statistician, explain what usually happens to giving during...

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