Fidelity Charitable Donors Support Charities Through Volunteer Work, Record Grant Recommendations

(Press release, Jan. 26, 2015) — Fidelity Charitable donors recommended a record of nearly $2.6 billion in grants to support more than 92,000 charities in 2014. In a recent survey, the majority of Fidelity Charitable donors also showed themselves to be highly committed to donating time, with 79 percent having volunteered in the past year and two-thirds (67 percent) of volunteers committing more than 50 hours to their favorite charities. Fidelity Charitable is an independent public charity with a donor-advised fund program.