Individual Giving
Diversity and Generosity
Where levels of workplace diversity are higher than average, the level of charitable giving also tends to be higher.
Corinna Wu has worked as a science journalist for more than 15 years on the staffs of U.S. News & World Report, Science News, and the radio show Science Update. As a freelance writer, editor, and producer, her journalism has been published in Nature, Science, Technology Review, and Prism, and her radio pieces broadcast on the Marketplace Morning Report, KQED's Pacific Time, and Scientific American's 60-Second Science. In 2005, she was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship; she spent a year at MIT studying neuroscience and engineering design.
Where levels of workplace diversity are higher than average, the level of charitable giving also tends to be higher.
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