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United Press International
NEW YORK — Charitable
.contributions in the United
States have reached a volume of
$100 million a day, increasing
since 1955 at a rate faster than
inflation.
Civing grew from an esti
mated SO.OO billion in 1955 to
.$47.74 billion in 1980. And it
'grew to $53.02 billion in 1981
and is still growing, says Samuel
L. Blumenfeld, a Boston jour-
-jialist.
■'2 “We are the most charitable
'people in the world,” Blumen-
; -feld told United Press Interna-
ydional. “We give about $180 i)er
Cyeat per capita and our gifts
^amount to more than the entire
national budgets of all but nine
Hoi 100 nations listed in the
HWorld Almanac. By compari-
•Tlson, the average Englishman
Hgives about $20 a year.”
Bhunenfeld’s said that any
one can start a charity. All that is
needed is to f ind a worthy cause
and the money to buy a mailing
list and pay for the initial print
ing and mailing — possibly
$25,000.
I he Internal Revenue Ser
vice lists 250,000 such tax ex
empt charities. They all use the
mails. Even the radio and TV
evangelists build up selective
mailing lists for follow-up.
ing to the American Association
of Fund Raising Counsel. Edu
cation, health care, hospitals, so
cial agencies, arts and humani
ties and service groups follow in
order.
Blumenfeld said the public
has an exaggerated idea of the
amount of charlatanry and
fraud in charitable appeals. He
said such practices account for
less than 2 percent of collections.
“Direct mail appeals are the
clinchers,” Blumenfeld said.
“Such letters are written by skil
led professionals and the aim is
to get people to reach for the
checkbook right now. 1 he
appeal that is laid aside even for
a day seldom wins a check.”
Almost half the annual con
tributions go to religious causes,
$24.85 billion in 1981, accord-
Both Carl Bakal, author of
Charity USA, and Brian O'Con
nell of the Private Sector in
Washington, an association of
charities, agreed.
However. Bakal said that the
laws on charily frauds are too
lax. O’Connell agreed saying
that there have been well publi
cized cases where administrative
and fund raising costs have
soared out of hand.
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