February 1, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
Add online generosity to the list of things notable about the nation’s capital and its suburbs.
People in Alexandria, Va., a city located just outside of Washington, donated more money online per capita to charities that use Convio software in 2009 than Americans in any other large city.
For every 1,000 people, they gave $20,244.
Residents of Cambridge, Mass., donated the second-largest amount ($14,729 per 1,000 people), followed by Arlington, Va. ($14,362), another Washington suburb, and by Washington, ($13,746).
Convio, a company that provides software to charities, based the rankings on an analysis of online contributions it processed for 273 large cities. The company estimates that it processes about 10 percent of all online giving.
Other cities on the top 10 list were Minneapolis; Seattle; Berkeley, Calif.,; St. Louis; Bellevue, Wa.; and Ann Arbor, Mich.
