Unlocking Options for Women: A Survey of Women in Cook County Jail

On October 31, 2001, 60 members of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless conducted in-depth, one-on-one surveys with 235 of the 1,117 women detained that day in Cook County Jail. These surveys were designed and conducted to gain an understanding of women's lives that may dictate and support policy initiatives and further direct service providers in assisting those in need. This study was conducted to document the lives of women detained in Cook County Jail and promote understanding of their many experiences. It reveals a great deal about the lives, current circumstances, and future hopes of 235 women detained that day

Why the $41 Trillion Wealth Transfer Estimate Is Still Valid: A Review of Challenges and Questions

Despite the economic downturn and the fall of the equity markets, the nationally noted projection that a wealth transfer of at least $41 trillion will take place in the United States by the year 2052 remains valid. Following a thorough review of our 1999 report "Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy," we conclude in this article that its projections have not been significantly affected by recent and prevailing economic conditions. The current report reviews the validity of the$41 trillion estimate in light of recent economic conditions, as well as several other critical challenges. While the new commentary does not explicitly deal with the middle- and upper-growth scenarios, the arguments made in support of the $41 trillion estimate often apply to the higher estimates. The principal conclusion is that the$41 trillion estimate remains valid as a 2% growth estimate, even in light of recessionary growth, depressed stock market, and several other criticisms discussed in th

Wealth and the Commonwealth: new findings on wherewithal and philanthropy

Drawing in large part on the 1995 Survey of Consumer Finances, the authors describe the pattern of charitable giving by families at the upper reaches of income and wealth, as well as across the income spectrum. The overriding empirical motif is that the distribution of charitable giving is more highly skewed toward the upper end of the financial spectrum than previously documented, and that there appears to be a trend toward becoming even more so. The overriding theoretical motif is that income and wealth are so thoroughly imbricated, especially at the upper end of the financial spectrum, that the analyses of the determinants of charitable giving need to shift from their current focus on the dynamics of income to a complementary focus on the dynamics of wealth

Geography and Generosity: Boston and Beyond

Presents findings from a study of the giving patterns of residents of Boston, Massachusetts, and New England, compared with other cities, states, and regions, based on an index created as an alternative to the Catalog for Philanthropy's Generosity Index

A Golden Age of Philanthropy?: The Impact of the Great Wealth Transfer on Greater Boston

Estimates the baseline household wealth and the expected wealth transfer in the Boston metropolitan area over the next fifty years. Examines the distribution of wealth, final estates, and charitable bequests, and analyzes the transfer's significance

Center on Wealth and Philanthropy Charitable Giving Indices: Social Indicators of Philanthropy by State

Ranks each state's total charitable giving in 2004 relative to the financial capacity of its population to give, with separate indices for before-tax income, after-tax income, and after-tax income adjusted for two cost-of-living measures