Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? We implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly … assigning all of the country's 8,000 zip codes to Save the Children Facebook fundraising videos or a pure control and studied … fundraising increased donation frequency and value to Save the Children during the campaign and in the subsequent five weeks; (ii …

Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … substitution and measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation revenue and frequency to Save the …

Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field … experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure … measurement issues. We found that (i) video fundraising increased donation frequency and value to Save the Children during the …

, in a real fundraising setting, whether measures of empathy (i.e., empathic concern and personal distress) can improve …

because the grant crowds out the fundraising of the charities who, after getting the grant, reduce efforts of fundraising … (fundraising crowd-out)? This is the first paper to separate these two effects. Using a panel of more than 8000 charities, we find … that crowding out is significant, at about 75%. We find this crowding out is due primarily to reduced fundraising …

(1998) argues that such a fundraising strategy may be particularly effective when funds are being raised for projects that …