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Charity and Public Libraries : Does Government Funding Crowd-Out Donations?

B. Ferreira Neto, Amir - 2017

There are over 9,000 public libraries in the United States servicing more than 1.5 billion people and raising over $11.5 billion dollars in revenue with approximately 8% of this total coming from donations. This paper analyzes the determinants of donations to public libraries testing the...

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Fixing Philanthropy : A Vision for Charitable Giving and Reform

Colinvaux, Roger - 2019

Philanthropy means to give for the benefit of others. Unfortunately for philanthropy and civil society, the laws supporting philanthropy are in a state of crisis. More by happenstance than design, the law now caters overwhelmingly to the whims of wealthy donors to the detriment of those in need....

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Thoughts and Prayers - Do They Crowd out Charity Donations?

Thunstrom, Linda - 2019

For centuries, scholars have examined what motivates prosocial behavior. In the U.S., prosocial behavior is routinely accompanied by thoughts and prayers. Yet, the impact on prosocial behavior of such gestures is unknown. We examine how thoughts and prayers affect charity donations to victims of...

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Donation Without Domination : Private Charity and Republican Liberty

Taylor, Robert S - 2017

Contemporary republicans have adopted a less-than-charitable attitude toward private beneficence, especially when it is directed to the poor, worrying that rich patrons may be in a position to exercise arbitrary power over their impoverished clients. These concerns have led them to support...

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Kings v Bultitude - A Gift Lost to Charity

Picton, John - 2017

Charity might always be favoured by equity, but in this case it allowed a gift to fail. Unusual facts tested well-established legal principles; proving they deserve their reputation as the ‘difficult member' of the family of charitable trusts jurisprudence. This note analyses the relevant...

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When Sadness-Evoking Charity Appeals Demotivate Charitable Giving

Choi, Jungsil - 2020

emotion appeals (e.g., happiness appeal or guilt appeal) are used. We find that a prevention (vs. promotion) focus demotivates …

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Individual Fundraising in Online Charitable Giving

Liang, Yitian (Sky) - 2019

Online individual fundraising has been a prominent component of online charitable giving due to the low cost of online … unclear whether this fundraising effect still holds online given several significant differences between offline and online … settings. In this paper, we first examine whether online individual fundraising donors give more and what factors moderate such …

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Giving to Poverty Relief Charities : The Impact of Beliefs and Misperceptions Towards Income Redistribution in a Real Donation Experiment

Luccasen, III, R. Andrew - 2017

Many Americans hold erroneous beliefs regarding the level of inequality in the United States and the efforts the federal government makes to alleviate poverty. In general, they overestimate the extent of poverty relief undertaken by government. Given that poverty relief programs are a public...

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Is Charitable Giving a Zero Sum Game? - The Effect of Competition Between Charities on Giving Behavior

Schmitz, Jan - 2020

information on how to improve existing fundraising strategies …

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Sharia, Charity, and Minjian Autonomy in Muslim China : Gift Giving in a Plural World

Erie, Matthew S. - 2016

In Marcel Mauss's analysis, the gift exists in the context of a homogenous system of values. But in fact, different types of normative systems can inhabit the same social field. This is the case among Hui, the largest Muslim minority group in China, for whom the “freedom” of the gift resides...

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