THE POWER OF EVERYDAY CHARITABLE GIVING

This group is on a mission to understand the declining number of donors and volunteers—and to enact change.

- EMMA PATCH

What is the Generosity Commission? The Generosity Commission is a nonpartisan group of leaders from across the charitable sector. It aims to encourage a culture of generosity through research, advocacy and highlighting the importance of everyday giving and civic engagement. It is particularly focused on addressing a decline in donor and volunteer numbers; over several decades, the number of givers has gone down, although the overall amount of money given has gone way up.

Our mission is to understand the reduction of everyday givers and volunteers, to explore the role that everyday volunteers and givers play in our society and in our democracy, and to offer some recommendations for how to reverse the decline.