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• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30630
• Date: 01 July 2019
• Published date: 01 July 2019

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Nearly a third of U.S. households

gave to disaster relief in 2017–18

New research from the Center for Disaster Philan-

thropy, Candid and the Indiana University Lilly Fam-

ily School of Philanthropy shows that almost a third

of U.S. households donated to charity in response to

a natural disaster over the last two years—a period

that saw some 30 disaster events that each caused

more than $1 billion in damage.

The groups’ U.S. Household Disaster Giving in 2017

and 2018 Report reveals this and other data on U.S.

households’ disaster giving and looks at the patterns,

preferences and practices of individual charitable

giving for disaster aid efforts.

Key ndings from the report include:

• The top motivations for disaster giving were the

magnitude of a disaster—the scale of an event and

the number of people affected—and personal con-

nections to the location of a disaster.

• Over a fth (22 percent) of U.S. households

donated to disaster aid efforts in both years; 18 per-

cent of these donors regularly supported disaster aid

efforts or considered disaster giving as part of their

annual charitable budgets, the report said.

• Continued support waned in years following a

disaster. In 2018, just about 5 percent of U.S. house-

holds donated to provide continued relief from 2017

disasters, and another nearly 3 percent donated to

continue alleviating impacts of disasters that occurred

prior to 2017.

• Approximately three-fths (61 percent) of disas-

ter aid donor households made both nancial and

in-kind gifts.

• About 12 percent of U.S. households volun-

teered to assist with disaster aid efforts in at least one

of the two years.

The report can help disaster relief agencies and

other organizations understand donor motivations

and trends, and gain insight into what they can expect

as hurricane and wildre seasons ramp up across the

country.

For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2wmVe6f.

Number of donors in U.K.

continues to drop

Recent research from the Charities Aid Foundation

shows that the number of people in the United King-

dom who give to charity has declined for the third

year in a row, from 69 percent in 2016 to 65 percent

on 2018. The data—found in the CAF’s UK Giving

2019 report—reect the percentage of British citizens

who either give money to charity directly or sponsor

a friend or family member in a charitable event or

activity. The ndings are based on monthly interviews

and include a total of more than 12,000 individual

interviews for each of the three years covered.

Part of the decline in donations can be attributed to

a similar decline in the British public’s level of trust in

charitable institutions, the report found. Only about

half of those surveyed (48 percent) said they believed

charities to be trustworthy, compared to 21 percent

who said they do not believe charities are trustworthy.

That’s an increase from 19 percent in both 2016 and

2017, the report noted.

“If people lack trust, that means they worry that

their hard-earned money is not being well spent when

donated to charities,” said Susan Pinkney, head of

research at the CAF.

“This is a challenge that the entire charity sector

needs to tackle head on and nd ways to inspire

people to give and demonstrate to them that their

money is making a difference.”

The report did note some good news, however. De-

spite the drop in the number of U.K. citizens donating

money, those who do give are giving higher amounts.

As a result, the report said, the overall amount given

in 2018 remained comparable to 2017 at £10.1 billion,

or about $12.8 billion.

For more information, visit https://www.cafonline.

org. ■