Certain commodities of a pure individual-consumption variety also possess characteristics of a pure collective-consumption good. In certain cases when individual-consumption goods cannot be provided profitably by private enterprise, it may serve the social welfare to subsidize their production

Economic theory ascribes the primary role in the provision of public goods to government. This emphasis on government overlooks the role of the not-for-profit sector in providing collective type goods. In this paper we seek to determine the factors influencing charitable contributions to private...