African-American Lessons in Giving

This link provides some interesting statistics on African-American giving. Did you know that Blacks "give 25 percent more of their discretionary income to charity than do whites,"
according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy?

Jabari Asim, the author of this Washington Post Op-Ed, African-American Lessons in Giving, also talks about Thomas Cannon, man who rarely earned more than $30,000 but managed to
give away $150,000 over his lifetime.

Conventional wisdom is that you have to be wealthy, like Bill Gates, Michael Jackson, or Oprah Winfrey, in order to give. This is not true, as I hope will become apparent from the articles in this blog.

Any readers with other examples of people who have made significant contributions with "normal" incomes are encouraged to post information about these people in the comments section of this blog.