Does Rhode Island deserve its reputation for being among the nation’s least charitable states?

PBN Staff

12/02/2022

VOLUNTEERS SORT items at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, one of seven social service agencies sharing $180,000 in emergency year-end grants from the Rhode Island Foundation. / COURTESY CONNIE GROSCH/RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION — VOLUNTEERS SORT items at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank in 2019. / COURTESY CONNIE GROSCH/RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Rhode Island again ranked near the bottom of WalletHub's annual list of the most charitable states, coming in at No. 45 in the ranking released last month. The list compares states in 19 indicators of charitable behavior, including volunteer rate, share of donated income and share of sheltered homeless. While one ranking system may somehow…

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