{"id":64806,"date":"2017-10-27T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64806"},"modified":"2017-10-27T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:39:36","slug":"giving-usa-special-report-on-giving-to-religion-finds-religious-people-give-more-money-to-charity-than-those-unaffiliated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64806","title":{"rendered":"Giving USA Special Report on Giving to Religion finds religious people give more money to charity than those unaffiliated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the report\u2019s findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>People who are religiously affiliated are more likely to make a charitable donation of any kind, whether to a religious congregation or to another type of charitable organization.\u00a0<\/strong>Sixty-two percent of religious households give to charity of any kind, compared with 46 percent of households with no religious affiliation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Although the percentage of people who give to religious congregations is declining, those who give to religion are giving at steady rates.\u00a0<\/strong>Contrary to popular belief, younger generations do give to religion, and those who give are doing so at a similar rate as earlier generations did at the same point in their lives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frequent attendance at religious services is linked to both the likelihood of giving to religion and to making larger gifts to religion.\u00a0<\/strong>People who attend religious services on a monthly basis are 11 times more likely to give to religious congregations, and they give an average of $1,737 more to religion per year than people who attend less than once a month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/givingusa.org\/just-released-giving-usa-special-report-on-giving-to-religion\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the report\u2019s findings: People who are religiously affiliated are more likely to make a charitable donation of any kind, whether to a religious congregation or to another type of charitable organization.\u00a0Sixty-two percent of religious households give to charity of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64806\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,109,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-culture","category-sociology","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64808,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64806\/revisions\/64808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}