Browsing by Subject "Charitable Donations"

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    The Giving Environment: Understanding Drivers for Donor Engagement
    (IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2022-01-26) Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    The objective of this research is to determine the relative effectiveness of fundraising messages in building connection to new, everyday donors. In short, which messages connect? The second objective is to investigate why a fundraising message works. To achieve this second objective, the study measured emotional and moral responses to the fundraising message.
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    Inheritance and Charitable Donations
    (12/30/2002) Steinberg, Richard; Wilhelm, Mark; Rooney, Patrick; Brown, Eleanor
    In this paper, we employ a unique new data set (the Philanthropy Panel Study (PPS), a module within the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)) to test whether the propensity to donate out of inherited wealth is equal to the propensities to donate out of other wealth, earned income, and transfer payments. We find that the elasticity of giving from non-inherited wealth is much greater than from inherited wealth for total giving and gifts to religion, combined causes, people in need, health, education, and other causes. The effects of income derived from inherited wealth and labor income are similar in terms of elasticities, although inherited wealth creates a higher marginal propensity to donate. Transfer income has either a small or no apparent effect on donations.