The Rebirth of Generosity: A response to Leon Neyfakh’s Boston Globe article “Why We Give to Charity”
When people think more, they are less generous. How do you feel about that? Leon Neyfakh promotes this hypothesis in his new Boston Globe article “Why We Give to Charity.” Nonprofit service organizations like Law For Change and Campbell & Company have posted the provocative article for website visitors to read. It has been swirling around philanthropy-related twitter feeds for all to see. I bumped into it on a daily news blast from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. I loved its trend-bucking subversion. But I found its case truly unconvincing. So much so, I’m firing back with some neglected facts in the oversimplified case.