Browsing by Subject "donations"

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    All earned revenue is not created equal: Revenue embeddedness as a framework for exploring crowding-in/crowding-out effects
    (2021) Levine Daniel, Jamie
    Nonprofit organizations increasingly rely on earned revenue to sustain their mission-driven activities. Previous research examining the effects of earned revenue on other income streams tends to study earned revenue in the aggregate. Using panel data from 12,372 organizations from 2010-2015, this analysis uses a framework of revenue embeddedness to link earned revenue activities to mission and analyze the effects of earned revenue activities on donations. Earned revenue activities offering new products or services to existing donors appear to complement individual donations. These findings have theoretical and practical applications related to how nonprofits pursue earned revenue.
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    Daily Situational Brief, December 17, 2014
    (MESH Coalition, 12/17/14) MESH Coalition
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    Dynamics of American Giving: Descriptive Evidence
    (Sage, 2021-08) Rooney, Patrick M.; Ottoni-Wilhelm, Mark; Wang, Xiaoyun; Han, Xiao; Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
    Almost all of the scientific literature on charitable giving is implicitly based on a static paradigm which posits there are non-donors who never give and donors who habitually give year-in/year-out to a specific charitable purpose. This article presents evidence that charitable giving is not static, but dynamic: Few Americans never give, and among Americans that donate the majority are switchers—giving in some years but not others or switching from one charitable purpose to another. The implications are that a static perspective is misleading, and research questions should place more emphasis on the time dimension of charitable giving.
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    #GivingTuesday: What We Know Now
    (2019-12-03) Pruitt, Anna; TeKolste, Rebecca
    This report seeks to investigate existing research about crowdfunding for nonprofit organizations using the lens of #GivingTuesday as a way to focus on the questions, concerns, and potential for this relatively new tool for giving to nonprofit organizations.
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    Motives for giving behavior
    (2016-09-15) Wiepking, Pamala; Beltman, Rob
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    Private Aid and Development: Evidence from Million Dollar Donations
    (2014-07) Osili, Una
    This paper investigates the role of private aid in meeting global challenges in developing countries in the 21st century. We use a newly available data set that provides unique information about publicly announced private donations of a million dollars or more between 2000 and 2010 from U.S. individuals, foundations, and corporations to international causes. In the past decade, there has been a significant growth in private aid; however, only a handful of studies have examined the size and composition of private aid to developing countries. Our analysis reveals that private aid toward developing countries is focused on key subsectors, with a significant share of private aid targeted at health and education. In general, we find that private aid to developing countries is positively associated with population size, incidence, and the severity of natural disasters, with more populous countries and countries that experienced more severe disasters receiving more private aid. Interestingly, while aggregate incidence and levels of private aid are positively associated with disasters, private aid is less responsive to development indicators and other factors that have been shown to be of importance for official development assistance (ODA).