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US generosity after disasters: 4 questions answered

  • Written by Patrick Rooney, Executive Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
US generosity after disasters: 4 questions answeredA sign posted in New Bern, North Carolina after Hurricane Florence. AP Photo/Gary D Robertson

After 9/11, Americans responded with the kind of outpouring of generosity usually reserved for the most powerful hurricanes and earthquakes. Ever since those terrorist attacks, the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy has tracked...

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