The Christian charity provides drug rehabilitation and - after disasters - offers shelter, food and emergency aid to victims. (© Jim Mone/AP Images)ĭale Bannon, a spokesman for the Salvation Army’s U.S. Ansorge used to command a big salary and manage a staff of 17 at a downtown restaurant, but gave it up to become the cook in charge of this kitchen, where meals are free. It’s part of our expanded understanding of what it means to be American.” Chef Jeff Ansorge serves lunch to a man at the Salvation Army Eastside Corps Community Center in St. “We have a tax system that supports it public institutions that celebrate it and educational, social and cultural organizations that require it to thrive.
“There’s a different cultural approach to philanthropy in the U.S.,” Pasic says. Pasic says the individual donations that many Americans make come with fewer strings than government aid, and that means philanthropic organizations can try innovative approaches to helping others. But third is philanthropy, with individual donations - including bequests - making up more than three-quarters of giving. Nonprofits’ largest sources of income are fees for service, such as museum entry tickets.
Amir Pasic, dean at the school of philanthropy at Indiana University, says Americans’ habit of banding together to solve problems through groups like charities was noted as far back as 1835 by the French observer of American life Alexis de Tocqueville.
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