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Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal means

  • Written by Tessa Skidmore, Research Associate of Philanthropy, Women's Philanthropy Institute; Doctoral student of Philanthropy, IUPUI
Giving while female: Women are more likely to donate to charities than men of equal meansWomen who are collectively donating to an all-girls school in Peru discuss their charitable giving in a Vienna, Virginia dining room.Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The American poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in 1906 that a philanthropist is “a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while...

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