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Annual charitable-giving tally released

June 6, 2008 — The Knights of Columbus announced that its 1.75 million members set records for charitable giving and volunteer service hours last year. Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson released the results of the survey in a speech to state deputies and members of the board of directors, presented this evening in New Haven, Conn.

The results of the Order's Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity for the year ending December 31, 2007, show that the organization's contributions to charity reached $144,911,781, exceeding the previous year's total by more than $1 million. The figure includes $31,235,220 donated by the Supreme Council and $113,676,561 in charitable donations from state and local councils, Fourth Degree assemblies, and Squires circles.

The survey also shows that the number of volunteer hours reported by Knights for charitable causes grew to 68,695,768 hours, up more than 400,000 hours from 2006. There were 393,030 Knights of Columbus blood donors during the year, and Knights made more than 5.5 million visits to the sick and bereaved.

Over the past decade, the Knights of Columbus has given nearly $1.28 billion to charity and provided in excess of 612 million hours of volunteer service in support of charitable causes.

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