By Emma Patch From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Jacob Pruitt, president of Fidelity Charitable, the nation’s largest donor-advised fund, offers advice to those considering charitable contributions. Question: For someone who is new to donor-advised funds, what do they do and how do they work? Answer: They’re similar to an investment account. You put money or other…

Nearly two-thirds of all Americans report giving contributions regularly to secular and faith-based charitable groups, with the percentage rising to 90 percent among those who attend a Christian church at least once a month and who say their faith is important to them, according to a new report by the Barna Group. “Overall, three in…

Commentary According to St. Paul, Jesus Christ said that it is more blessed to give than to receive: But we have changed all that. In the modern state, it is more blessed to receive than to give, and possibly more common too. Giving in the modern state is compulsory and the donors have no choice…