How charities are failing to raise enough money.

There’s a growing trend in the US to see the word charity as synonymous with giving back. 

A recent survey of charities by The Next Big Thing, a nonprofit news site, found that a whopping 57 percent of Americans think charity is a good word, up from just 14 percent in 2011. 

However, that doesn’t mean that the word is widely understood by the public.

The survey found that just 12 percent of respondents understood the term “charitable” to mean “raising money” and only 14 percent understood the word “gift.”

In fact, only 10 percent of people were familiar with the word. 

The survey also found that those who knew the word were more likely to think that charities were not as effective as they could be at doing good work.

“Charitable” also doesn’t necessarily mean “good.”

It can also mean “unhelpful.”

Charity can mean a variety of things, from providing goods and services to a service that is meant to benefit people.

That’s because the word doesn’t refer exclusively to good, but rather to the service itself.

The term charity also has the connotation of “giving” or “giving to,” which is used to describe what is not intended to benefit the recipients.

“When people think of charity, they think of giving,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Washington.

“They think of something that is meaningful and good.”

When people see the words “charity” and “gifts” together, they often think of a charity that does something to help people, Osterheim said.

But charity is not necessarily the same thing as giving, he added.

“We know that when you give something, you’re giving back something, but the term ‘giving’ doesn’t really refer to what you’re doing.

Charity is really the act of helping others in the community,” Osterhans said.

While most Americans might not understand the concept of charity as a good thing, Oterholm said, there are still many good things that charities do.

They are a valuable resource for people in need, and they give back to their communities.

“If we’re giving to the people in our community, that is a valuable thing,” Oterhans added.

“It’s the community that we’re serving.”

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