Cleveland has witnessed a very philanthropic 2014, where The Cleveland Foundation has been instrumental in making the city more vibrant and its residents more charitable through its giving back outreach activities.
A slew of philanthropic efforts such as the popular Ice Bucket Challenge and Giving Tuesday has also been marked as 2014 philanthropic affairs. Indeed, Americans are more generous than ever in the past years. According to the study, "Giving USA: Annual Report on Philanthropy," Americans donated an estimated $335.17 billion to charitable causes in 2013, for a 3 percent increase over 2012.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.