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    Fund-raising as a key to the library's future
    (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) Burlingame, Dwight F.
    Reviews the growth and development of library fund raising within the context of library history and the development of contemporary philanthropy. Topics addressed include changing environments and the need for additional resources; the role of fund raising in a library's mission; effective leadership; and public relations.
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    Measurement of Volunteering: A Methodological Study Using Indiana as a Test Case
    (2002-12) Rooney, Patrick; Steinberg, Kathryn; Chin, William
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    Best Practices in Education Grant Making
    (2009) IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    Understanding Donors’ Motivations
    (10/20/2009) IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
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    A Better Method for Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Fundraising at Universities
    (1999) Rooney, Patrick Michael
    This article develops a new methodology for a more compre-hensive and useful analysis of the costs and benefits of fundrais-ing, as well as the total costs and net benefits associated with development efforts in general. This approach does a better job of linking the timing of return of fundraising efforts and mea-suring the actual return on investments in fundraising (as opposed to the reported return) than the widely used guidelines from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the National Association of College and University Busi-ness Officers (CASE/NACUBO) (1990). The implications are a better methodology for practitioners that they can use to enhance internal decision making and a better methodology for boards to use in evaluating performance and accountability. Recently, other large, public universities have begun using sev-eral of these concepts in the assessment of their development offices (Rooney, 1998).
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    Altruistic and Joy-of-Giving Motivations in Charitable Behavior
    (2002) Ribar, David C.; Wilhelm, Mark O.
    This study theoretically and empirically examines altruistic and joy-of-giving motivations underlying contributions to charitable activities. The theoretical analysis shows that in an economy with an infinitely large number of donors, impurely altruistic preferences lead to either asymptotically zero or complete crowd-out. The paper then establishes conditions on preferences that are sufficient to yield zero crowd-out in the limit. These conditions are fairly weak and quite plausible. An empirical representation of the model is estimated using a new 1986–92 panel of donations and government funding from the United States to 125 international relief and development organizations. Be-sides directly linking sources of public and private support, the econ-ometric analysis controls for unobserved institution-specific factors, institution-specific changes in leadership, year-to-year changes in need, and expenditures by related organizations. The estimates show little evidence of crowd-out from either direct public or related private sources. Thus, at the margin, donations to these organizations appear to be motivated solely by joy-of-giving preferences. In addition to ad-dressing the basic question of motives behind charitable giving, the results help explain the existing disparity between econometric and experimental crowd-out estimates.
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    An examination of persistence in charitable giving to education through the 2002 economic downturn
    (11/6/2009) Wu, Ke; Brown, Melissa S.
    Using three waves of the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study, a module of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, fi elded by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, we examine characteristics of donors who gave to any level of education in each of the years studied (2000, 2002 and 2004). We fi nd that these persistent donors to education are more likely to have higher income (average of US $ 142 603 in 2000) and higher levels of education (bachelor ’ s degree or above) than are less frequent education donors and non-donors to education. There is some support for a positive association between persistent giving to education and the number and age of children in the household. There is strong support for positive association between educational attainment and persistence in giving to education and in giving to other secular causes. Implications for fundraising practice and further research topics are discussed.
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    Creating Good Citizens?: Toward a Clarified Understanding of Selection and Causality in Volunteer Associations
    (2012) Baggetta, Matthew
    Scholars since Tocqueville have considered voluntary associations “schools of democracy” that causally impact the civic characteristics of their members. Critics of the perspective have argued that apparent causal effects are likely driven by self-selection. This paper argues that, by more carefully considering the mechanisms at work within associations, we can understand how selection and causality might both be occurring. I develop a theoretical typology of association features and then discuss the ways in which these might operate as bases for selection and as mechanisms of causality. Despite the prevalence of self-selection, substantial theoretical opportunities for causal effects of associations still exist. I conclude with a brief discussion of the implications of this for theory and research.
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    Building Donor Loyalty: The Antecedents and Role of Commitment in the Context of Charity Giving
    (2007) Sargeant, A.; Woodliffe, L.
    In both the US and the UK donor attrition rates are an increasing cause for concern. Many organizations lose up to 60% of cash donors after their first donation. In this study we delineate the factors that drive donor commitment to a cause and subsequent loyalty. A series of nine focus groups were employed to derive study hypotheses that were then tested using the technique of structural equation modelling. We conclude the factors perceived service quality, shared beliefs, perceived risk, the existence of a personal link to the organization/cause and trust, drive commitment in this context of charity giving.