Recent high-profile scandals related to misuse of funding and donations have raised the demand for scrutiny over financial transparency and operational activities of non-profit organizations in developed countries. Our analysis challenges the common practice in the sector of using programme...

The demand for transparency and reliability of information from nonprofit organisations has surged as stakeholders increasingly use nonprofit financial information for contracting and regulating decisions. Contrary to previous studies, we theoretically show that attempts to enhance the...

We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to help the beneficiary increases the average donation....