With the holiday season just around the corner, families and households will soon be gathering to give and receive gifts. Many will also be sending donations to communities in crisis, and organizing ...

I relish the end-of-year news stories that highlight inspiring acts of generosity—the veteran who donated his bone marrow to save a preschooler with leukemia or the restaurant staff who pooled their ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Someone recently asked me if, rather than saving her tax refund and stimulus check, she should spend them in order to help boost the economy.Another person asked how to balance ...

From commercials to pop culture, our children are bombarded with messages that tell them it’s better to get than to give. Yet, it’s in giving that ultimately we may reap the most significant rewards, ...

There seems to be an awe around philanthropy. An acknowledgement that it is so fragile and precious that it should never be sniffed at, questioned, challenged or told that it is failing to live up to ...

I was ringside at an MMA match, sitting at a private table with millionaires, former Navy SEALs and nonprofit board chairs. And I was relieved and grateful when a guest near me confided quietly, “You ...

"Families are weird.” This is the mantra of a pastor friend, his way of coping with the manifold complexities of his own family as well as those of the families with whom he ministers. He contends ...

Editor's Note: In the wake of the ubiquitous Ice Bucket Challenge, Americans looked like a fairly generous lot. But based on data collected in 2010 for the University of Notre Dame's Science of ...

What do you look for in a partner? Surely that depends on what the partner is for – you’d probably want a business partner to be innovative, a choir buddy to be musical and a romantic partner to be ...

Prominent American sociologist Randy Hodson coined the term “management citizenship behavior” (MCB) in a 2002 article and it still rings true today. His research concluded that MCB reduces conflict ...