"A guide to the complex landscape of charitable giving that empowers readers to give with intention and greater impact and demonstrates the power of giving to our communities and democracies"--

Introduction 1
1 Philanthropy by the Rest of Us 11
2 The Givingscape: Old and New Come Together 39
3 Crowdfunding and its Ancient Cousins 61
4 Giving is Political 79
5 Investing Across Generations 95
6 The Good, Bad, and Unknown of Giving Data 111
7 Retail Therapy 133
8 Navigating the Givingscape 149
Conclusion: Whose Problem is it, Anyway? 171
Acknowledgments 183
Appendix A: Methods and Mapping Conversations 185
Appendix B: Glossary and Buzzwords 187
Notes 195
Bibliography 211
Index 221

Lucy Bernholz is Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, where she directs the Digital Civil Society Lab. She is the author of Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution.