After writing the "Greenest place in the U.S." post, I started to ponder where the most charitable place in the U.S. was. Thanks to the world wide web, I was able to find out or at least which places reigned supreme or stunk it up. Men's Health wrote an article called "How Charitable is Your City?" Using IRS Data on individual donations (adjusted for cost of living), number of corporate charitable foundations and the cities per capita contributions, the article graded 100 cities on their charitable efforts.
Top of the list were:
1. Atlanta, GA - +A
2. Washington, DC - +A
3. Wilmington, DE - A
4. San Francisco, CA - A
5. St. Paul, MN - A
6. Minneapolis, MN - A
7. Oakland, CA - A
8. Birmingham, AL - A
9. Richmond, VA - -A
10. Charlotte, NC - -A
The researcher found a correlation between cities seeing the fruits of their charitable labor and increased charitable spending. Our home town of Dallas did make the list, earning a -B. However, sad to say, our sister city of Fort Worth made the other list, earning a -D.
I challenge you to see if your city was
on the list, for better or for worse and do your part to raise its grade.
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