{"id":27357,"date":"2021-10-30T04:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=27357"},"modified":"2021-11-02T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T21:42:35","slug":"less-than-2-of-all-us-giving-supports-womens-and-girls-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/less-than-2-of-all-us-giving-supports-womens-and-girls-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than 2% of all US giving supports women\u2019s and girls\u2019\u00a0charities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tessa Skidmore<\/a>, IUPUI<\/a><\/em>; Jacqueline Ackerman<\/a>, IUPUI<\/a><\/em>, and Jon Bergdoll<\/a>, IUPUI<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The #MeToo movement<\/a> gained traction in late 2017 and continued to grow the following year<\/a>, as countless women shared their experiences with sexual harassment, abuse and assault. But donations to women\u2019s and girls\u2019 organizations made up just 1.92% of all charitable giving in 2018, the most recent data available.<\/p>\n

That burst of increased public attention, according to the latest edition of the Women & Girls Index<\/a>, did little in terms of the dollars contributed to causes serving women and girls. The share of donor funds going to those groups had stood at 1.8% in 2017 before inching higher the following year.<\/p>\n

We are<\/a> three of the researchers<\/a> who produce<\/a> this index. To measure U.S. charitable giving to women\u2019s and girls\u2019 organizations, we sift through Internal Revenue Service data on nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n

To be sure, philanthropic support for women\u2019s and girls\u2019 organizations did grow a little in 2018, reaching $8.2 billion. This was the highest level recorded since 2012, which is as far back as our data goes.<\/p>\n