Daily Archives: 05/08/2008

Gen X Philanthropists

(Community Matters) Hearing that the annual Council of Foundations meeting in Baltimore (ACF’s Ken Gladish and KDK Harman’s Janet Harman in attendance from Austin. I’m sure others) that the Generational Leadership Program has attracted lots of Gen Xers to this annual conference.

Power of young philanthropists? Over 12 million people have signed on to the Save Darfur Campaign, Breast Cancer Awareness and other causes through Facebook Causes. Over 270,000 Kiva.org lenders have invested $28 million in 40k micro-enterprises. Over 70k donors have invested $26 million plus in 1.2 million students in public schools.