With Charity For All
Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
By Ken Stern
Doubleday. 258 pp
( Disponible à la BAnQ)
The good news is that Americans are a giving crew. According to Ken Stern in his new book, “Charity for All,” there are 1.4 million charities in the United States that take in $1.5 trillion a year, and every year about 50,000 more charities are started. The bad news is that no one is holding these charities accountable.
Each year, the average American household donates almost $2700 to charity. Yet, most donors know little about the American charitable sector and the nonprofit organizations they support. In With Charity For All, former NPR CEO Ken Stern exposes a field that few know: 1.1 million organizations, 10% of the national workforce, and $1.5 trillion in annual revenues. He chronicles the many flaws in the charity system, from tax-exempt charities such as bowl games, roller derby leagues, and beer festivals, to charitable hospitals that pay their executives into the millions, to–worst of all–organizations that raise millions of dollars without ever cracking the problem they have pledged to solve.
With Charity For All provides an unflinching look at the philathropic sector but also offers an inspiring prescription for individual giving and widespread reform.
The IRS approves more than 99.5% of all charitable applications, creating some 50,000 new charities a year—many of them fraudulent.
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