Include a charity: a welcome initiative

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Title: Include a charity: a welcome initiative
Author(s): Baker, Christopher
Abstract: Just on 12 months ago, a campaign was launched under the banner of Include a Charity. This marked a significant development in the history of co-operation amongst charitable organisations in this country. The campaign now involves some 140 of Australia's leading charities, urging Australians to leave a charitable bequest in their wills. While Australians take a pride in the way in which we contribute to charity collections and respond to natural disasters, very few of us have any understanding about how many of us leave a bequest in our wills. I suggest that many Australians would be surprised at just how few us do set aside anything from our estates for the charities we have often supported through out our lives.
Publication type: Commentary
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy
Source: philanthropyOz Blog, 29 March 2012
Publication year: 2012
Keyword(s): Australia; Bequests; Charities; Donations; Estates; Giving; Include a Charity initiative
Publisher: Philanthropy Australia
Publisher URL: http://blog.philanthropy.org.au/2012/03/29/guest-blog-include-a-charity-%E2%80%93-a-welcome-initiative/