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Giving USA, an organization that tracks philanthropic giving in the US, reports that Americans donated $557.6 billion to causes in 2023, an increase of 4.5% over the year prior.
But that's not good news for the world's Jewish community, which saw donations jump from $800 million in the third quarter of 2018 to more than $1 billion in the final three months of 2018, the Times of Israel reports.
"Without the institutions that organize the community domestically, philanthropy is not going to be a strong trend," Avrum Lapin, president of the Lapin Group fundraising and management consulting firm, tells Judah Gross of Your Daily Phil.
"It's only a matter of time until these other philanthropic destinations overtake religion."
According to Giving USA, giving to religion dropped from 57% of the total philanthropic dollar in 1984 to 24% in 2023, a drop of 27% over the past four years.
Lapin tells Gross that it's "against the backdrop of all these issues that we know, in terms of levels of affiliation [with religion], which is not something that affects only the Jewish community."
Jewish institutions, he says, "did not do or have not done as robustly as they could have done."
Jewish organizations, Lapin says, "need to take this opportunity
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