{"id":123443,"date":"2026-10-08T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=123443"},"modified":"2026-10-08T23:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T23:11:45","slug":"why-do-people-give-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2026\/10\/08\/why-do-people-give-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Give to Charity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;]<strong>Stanford SOCIAL INNOVATION Review, March 2008. <\/strong>Giving is motivated by humans\u2019 deeply held need to find meaning in life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/why_do_people_give_to_charity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story<\/a><script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford SOCIAL INNOVATION Review, March 2008. Giving is motivated by humans\u2019 deeply held need to find meaning in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-purpose-and-philanthropy"],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123447,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123443\/revisions\/123447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}