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Monday, February 29, 2016
"I Use My Money To..." How Gender Affects Attitudes About Money and Charitable GIving

Guest Post by Debra Mesch Ph.D., director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute and holder of the Eileen Lamb O'Gara Chair in Women's Philanthropy at the Indiana University Lily Family School of Philanthropy Money is the currency of philanthropy yet few of us have open conversations with family or friends about our attitudes towards it. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow wrote that money is the deepest taboo in our society. Few of us may recognize that men and women have different attitudes about

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