New Effort Under Way to Study Giving by the Super-Wealthy
November 1, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Boston College’s Center on Wealth and Philanthropy have announced they will support a new study called “The Joys and Dilemmas of Wealth,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
The study will try to determine how and why wealthy people donate to charity, with the aim of getting them to give more. It will include only people worth more than $25-million and will focus on people worth more than $100-million.
The study aims to get beyond platitudes about how the wealthy give — that they want to shore up their legacy, for instance.
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