{"id":13315,"date":"2019-12-10T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=13315"},"modified":"2019-12-10T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:28:03","slug":"fewer-americans-donating-charity-may-result-decline-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2019\/12\/fewer-americans-donating-charity-may-result-decline-religion","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Americans are Donating to Charity, May Be a Result of the Decline of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Less Americans are giving to charity and it may not be for the reason you’re thinking.<\/p>\n

Giving has dropped significantly between 2000 and 2016 according to a study released from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Vanguard Charitable.<\/p>\n

This decline points to 20 million fewer households donating to charity versus 2000. Money and economy aren\u2019t the main culprits of the decline, MarketWatch<\/em> points out. One big factor that may be driving the decline is the fact that Americans are losing their religion \u2013 they are becoming less likely to attend religious services or identify with a specific religion, MarketWatch<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttending services is correlated with giving to religious organizations, but it\u2019s also correlated with giving to secular groups,\u201d Una Osili, associate dean for research and international programs at the Lilly School said.<\/p>\n

Giving to charity is a core belief for many of the world\u2019s religions and religious people of any faith are more likely to give to charity, a Baylor University research study found.<\/p>\n

Since there are fewer religious people in the U.S. than ever and religious organizations have historically received most of Americans\u2019 charitable dollars, it has an impact on donation numbers.<\/p>\n

While religious groups still received the largest total of charitable dollars in 2018, at 29 percent of total giving, it was the first year that giving to religion fell below 30 percent of overall giving, according to the Giving USA annual report on philanthropy.<\/p>\n

The number of people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or nothing in particular is now at 26 percent which is up from 17 percent according to 2018 and 2019 surveys by the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n

Two other factors the Lilly School report found was America\u2019s uneven recovery from the Great Recession and younger people giving less.<\/p>\n

Many Americans are still recovering from the economic downturn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shift is due to lower-income and lower-wealth Americans experiencing the slowest economic recovery since the Great Recession, during years when the cost of other items such as food, education and healthcare have increased,\u201d said Jane Greenfield, president of Vanguard Charitable. \u201cThis has led to a decrease in the share of income available to give to charity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Millennials are also giving less money to charity compared to their older counterparts. The authors noted this is likely because they \u201chad the misfortune of entering the workforce during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

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