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

We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of …

competing for donations in the fundraising market. Our aim is to investigate the impact of publicly available contract … information on fundraising competition of nonprofit organizations. We argue that, although such provision makes contract … organizations are trapped in a situation of excessive fundraising activities. However, we show that publicly available contract …