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Respondents whose main philanthropic goals were to make their community or the world a better place (38 percent of the sample), to provide services that government doesn’t (5 percent), or to achieve other ends also made most of their donations to religious organizations.”

— Ellen Konar, Sheryl Sandberg and Melissa Brown, writing in the Winter 2008 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The article, “Destination Unknown” speaks to the results of a survey conducted by SSIR and Google regarding the discrepancy between donor intent and actual giving.