Seven out of ten Romanians made a donation in the past two years, survey shows

Seven out of ten Romanians have made a donation in the past two years, the Romanian Individual Philanthropy Monitor 2019 revealed.

The survey was conducted this spring by Exact Business Solutions on a sample of 1,132 respondents representative at an urban level. The respondents are internet users, aged 18 to 60, with pre-graduate and graduate education.

“In 70 percent of the cases the act of donating is a spontaneous one, and only 10 percent of those who donate plan such an action,” Julien Zidaru, managing partner of Exact Business Solutions, explained, Romania Insider reads.

Among the top six causes Romanians said they were involved with, four are related to healthcare and the other two to underprivileged or orphan children.

At the same time, the survey revealed that 86 percent of the donations made go towards local causes, 12 percent towards both local and international causes, while only two percent towards international causes.