Millennials surprised a ###### of people during the Haiti ###### of January 2010, and again ###### the Japanese tsunami disaster of ###### 2011. Large numbers responded to ###### call for aid, via social ###### and communications tools that are ###### nature to folks born since ######. Thanks in part to high-profile ###### by celebs such as will.i.am, ###### Penn and Shakira, 73 percent ###### all donors to Haiti relief ###### younger than 50, according to ###### Pew survey.

Haiti, says Feldmann, "###### an example of a successful ###### because the media helped bring ###### catastrophe alive. You had an ###### connection between a generation already ###### and that media combo."]]>
"Impulse Philanthropists"

Can the suffering in the Philippines be brought alive in much the same way? Both emotional and sophisticated, millennials ###### what Feldmann calls "impulse philanthropists": "###### see something on TV, the ######, their mobile device, and they ###### to text some money. They're ###### by images and by emotions."

###### added, "On the sophisticated side, ###### know exactly what digital tools ###### use, to find out more ###### the cause and 'where my ###### is going,' and then make ###### donation."

The 2012 Millennial Impact ###### asked 6,522 people ages 20 ###### 35 about their giving patterns. ###### said they had donated to ###### charitable cause in the last ######, 63 percent said they had ######, and 70 percent said they'd ###### friends to give. Not bad ###### a generation often portrayed as ###### and out of touch.]]>