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

One of the most important outstanding questions in fundraising is whether donor premiums, or gifts to prospective … donations to the charity; in this case donor premiums would be ineffective. We conduct a field experiment in conjunction with … the fundraising campaign of a major university to examine these questions. Treatments include a control, an unconditional …

We motivate this paper with a puzzle. When we asked subjects to give five dollars to charity today, about 30 percent …

Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising techniques, little is known about …

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …

largely crowd out giving from other sources, but that this reduction is due mostly to reduced fundraising activities of the … charity itself. We use much more detailed data from over 6000 charities in Canada, measured for up to 15 years, to provide … from other charities and charitable foundations, and donations gained from special fundraising activities, like galas or …