contributions. Common in charitable fundraising during capital campaigns is seed money, either from a government grant or from a … basis for fundraisers and seeds to charity. The primary assumption that is added to the standard model of privately provided … public goods is simply that the charity has fixed costs. With this it is shown that fundraisers have a natural and important …

causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …

volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to … overall charitable donations. We discuss the implications of our experimental results for both theory and policy. …

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test …

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test …

causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity’s fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …