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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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this article, information available from the Registered Charity Information Return (T3010) for each charity for the years …
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Charity might always be favoured by equity, but in this case it allowed a gift to fail. Unusual facts tested well …
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follow the testator's directions and apply the gift to the nominated charity. But the task is not always so simple. Sometimes … confronted a difficult question of construction: if the charity no longer exists, how should the property be distributed? …
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This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...
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the creation of public-private charity commissions at the state level under the aegis of the attorney general …
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Past research offers conflicting findings on whether sadness-evoking charity appeals help solicit a donation. To … charity has a reliable reputation), regulatory focus no longer affects donor skepticism, sympathy, and charitable giving, even …
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Online individual fundraising has been a prominent component of online charitable giving due to the low cost of online … solicitation. While studies of offline charity have shown that solicitation under peer pressure leads to higher donation, it is … unclear whether this fundraising effect still holds online given several significant differences between offline and online …
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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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