Generation X

The stigma of the slacker certainly has haunted many wealth-holding Gen-Xers throughout their professional lives, and even though they represent the smallest of the cohorts at roughly 40 million, these cantankerous misers have demonstrated a will to affect change with unique charitable solutions.

“As individuals, they see that applying themselves and their resources as a unit is not only the way to be successful in business but the way to make a [disproportionate] social impact in the community,” says Paul G. Schervish, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology and director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College.