SAN DIEGO—Despite the economic hardships brought about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, charitable giving increased in counties hit hardest by the pandemic, according to a study released Monday by the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management.
The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, found that between March and August 2020, charitable giving increased in 78 percent of counties that experienced greater threat from COVID-19. Human services charities—such as those that feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, or care for the elderly or young children—benefited the most from the increases, researchers found.
