Older donors of color in New York concentrate on giving back to their own ethnic communities, but their younger counterparts focus more on giving help to anyone who needs it, regardless of ethnicity. This generation gap in giving patterns was uncovered by Felinda Mottino and Eugene D. Miller of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Their research team interviewed 166 African-American, Asian-American, and Latino donors in the New…

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