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Charitable giving has remained stuck in the U.S., at two percent of GDP, ever since we started measuring it in the 1970s.
But you do a little $1 million community fundraiser for the poor, and it doesn't produce a 75 percent profit to the cause in the first 12 months, and your character is called into question.
They wanted to distance themselves from us because we were being crucified in the media for investing 40 percent of the gross in recruitment and customer service and the magic of the experience, and there is no accounting terminology to describe that kind of investment in growth and in the future, other than this demonic label of "overhead."
Net income for breast cancer research went down by 84 percent, or 60 million dollars, in one year.
We've all been taught that the bake sale with five percent overhead is morally superior to the professional fundraising enterprise with 40 percent overhead, but we're missing the most important piece of information, which is: What is the actual size of these pies?
Who cares if the bake sale only has five percent overhead if it's tiny?
I said that charitable giving is two percent of GDP in the United States.
But only about 20 percent of that, or 60 billion dollars, goes to health and human services causes.
But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP, up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a year in contributions, and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector.
They're increasing in population by three percent a year.
Malaria: There are eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa that have their death rates cut by 75 percent.
The number of people living in back-breaking, soul-crushing extreme poverty has declined from 43 percent of the world's population in 1990 to 33 percent by 2000 and then to 21 percent by 2010.
You paid someone a million dollars, because it was like 10 percent better than yours.
So if you take, say, natural gas, which is the most prevalent hydrocarbon source fuel, if you burn that in a modern General Electric natural gas turbine, you'll get about 60 percent efficiency.
If you put that same fuel in an internal combustion engine car, you get about 20 percent efficiency.
CA: So you've somehow slashed the cost of building a rocket by 75 percent, depending on how you calculate it.
percent of the cost of the rocket.
In Malte's case, during those 6 months, they were watching him for 78 percent of the time.
Only 10 percent of the Dutch Jews survived in the Second World War.
We share 98.8 percent of the genes.
percent is named Lester.
percent of America gave 200 dollars or more to any federal candidate, .05
percent gave the maximum amount to any federal candidate, .01
percent — for those of you doing the numbers, you know that's 132 Americans — gave 60 percent of the Super PAC money spent in the cycle we have just seen ending.
percent who are our relevant funders in America.
Candidates for Congress and members of Congress spend between 30 and 70 percent of their time raising money to get back to Congress or to get their party back into power, and the question we need to ask is, what does it do to them, these humans, as they spend their time behind the telephone, calling people they've never met, but calling the tiniest slice of the one percent?
percent are not comprising it for the public interest.
Fifty percent of the Senate between 1998 and 2004 left to become lobbyists, 42 percent of the House.
Those numbers have only gone up, and as United Republic calculated last April, the average increase in salary for those who they tracked was 1,452 percent.
When Connecticut adopted this system, in the very first year, 78 percent of elected representatives gave up large contributions and took small contributions only.
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