Top Donors Are Doing Too Little to Help the Needy

This country's most-generous donors give little or nothing to nonprofit organizations that work to reduce poverty or eliminate the social and economic inequities of our society.

A review of gifts made last year by the 63 donors on The Chronicle's list of the nation's biggest benefactors, as well as a look at the list compiled by Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy showing all gifts of $1-million or more that individuals made in 2004, reveal a pattern of giving that is

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