# The Generosity Crisis

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/the-generosity-crisis/
- Published: 2023-01-18T15:45:16+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges.**

Nathan Chappell, Brian Crimmins, and Michael Ashley explore the current state of
philanthropy today and how we can change course to bring about a different, more
connected future that benefits us all.

Together they deliver “a startlingly insightful investigation of that decline in
generosity” — and offer dynamic solutions that demonstrate how to re-establish the
interconnection that drives reciprocity, love, and generosity.

!["Generosity is in crisis" quote and cover from The Generosity Crisis](https://
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Image: Chappell & Crimmins

They invite you to join an urgently needed conversation around generosity as an 
antidote to isolation and the requirement that technology be harnessed as the only
scalable solution to reversing the generosity crisis by enabling radical connection;
by inviting us to take society’s most intractable problems personally.

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## Reviews

“The Generosity Crisis confronts us with alarming trends in charitable giving. But
it isn’t a bad news book about America. On the contrary, it shows us how donors 
and nonprofits can connect in new and better ways to inflect giving levels and lift
each other up.”
**Arthur C. Brooks**, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard
Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author

![The number of Americans making charitable gifts has reached an all-time low and
statistics show the percentages giving to charity annually could decline into the
single digits within 49 years. Source: Generosity Crisis](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
cloud/2023/01/generosity-crisis-statistic.jpg)

Generosity in decline? Image: Chappell & Crimmins

“A long legacy of nonprofit change-making is woven into our social fabric, and critical
to enduring change. And yet, donors have been dropping out of traditional charitable
giving at a steady pace. The Generosity Crisis speaks the hard truth, calling on
nonprofit leaders to reimagine their relationships with everyday philanthropists.
This is a book that should be highlighted, dog-eared, and pencil-scrawled by the
time you reach the last pages.”
**Shannon McCracken**, CEO, The Nonprofit Alliance

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