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Recent stats on corporate non-giving to faith groups, donations to the Baptist World Alliance, and a drop in church programs.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 5/16/2008 07:35AM

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17	425,000	38,000
Percentage of the top 50 Fortune 500 corporations' foundations whose policies prohibit their giving to faith-based groups	Dollars the Southern Baptist Convention had budgeted for the Baptist World Alliance in 2004.	Drop in the number of churches offering vacation Bible school since 1997 (from 81 percent to 69 percent).
57	25,000	20,000
Percentage of corporations that mention faith-based organizations and will not match employee contributions to them.	Dollars Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren and his wife, Kay, donated to the BWA after the SBC withdrew its membership from the global body.	Drop in the number of churches that have midweek programming for children since 1997 (from 64 percent to 58 percent).

Sources: The White House, The Barna Update

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Sources: The White House and The Barna Update statistics are available online.

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October 2005, Vol. 49, No. 10

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