We examine the impact of state-imposed mandates and fiscal limits on volunteer use and fundraising by local governments …. Our model of contributions to local public services predicts that fiscal limits increase both volunteer use and fund-raising … percent more likely that a department is volunteer and 14 percent more likely that it engages in fund-raising. A mandated …

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 …

fundraising strategies on the specifics of past donation dimensions.The second chapter examines an auction used to solve the …