Nonprofit organizations and charitable giving, 1986–1992: A compendium of statistical information and analyses

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Meckstroth
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Statistical Information

Motives for corporate philanthropy and charitable causes supported

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dane K. Peterson ◽  
Cathryn Van Landuyt ◽  
Courtney Pham
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Private Corporations

PurposeThis paper examines how the inferred motives for corporate philanthropy relate to the types of charitable causes supported.Design/methodology/approachPublished data were obtained for 256 publicly traded and private corporations from a variety of sources.FindingsThe results demonstrated that a number of motives were not significantly related to total charitable giving, but were related to how charitable funds were distributed to various charitable causes. Thus, the study provides insights on the strategic use of corporate charity as means of achieving various business objectives and advancing a theoretical understanding of corporate philanthropy strategies.Research limitations/implicationsThis study only investigated some of the presumed motives for corporate philanthropy. Even for the motives investigated in this study, no attempt was made to examine all the motivational factors that determine the level of need for a specific motive. Thus, while the present study provides some of the first evidence of a relationship between motivational factors and data on the types of charitable causes supported, there are other motivational factors that could be investigated in future studies.Practical implicationsThe results have a number of implications for managers of nonprofit organizations such as marketing/targeting potential donors. Additionally, the results could be useful for managers of for profit firms in terms of comparing corporate strategies with competing firms.Originality/valueThe study provides a framework for investigating the relationship between motivational factors and types of charitable causes supported.

scholarly journals Organizational Factors Affecting Charitable Giving in the Environmental Nonprofit Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 8947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Leardini ◽  
Gina Rossi ◽  
Stefano Landi
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Charitable Contributions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Conditional Effect ◽  
Environmental Nonprofits ◽  
Positive Effect

Nonprofit organizations operating in the environmental protection and conservation sector face challenging fundraising issues in collecting from individual donors the money needed to accomplish their goals. The purpose of this study was to investigate which organizational factors can play a role in influencing the ability of these organizations to collect charitable contributions. By applying an extended version of the economic model of giving to a sample of 142 environmental nonprofits from the United States, the results of the regression analyses show that the following factors allow these organizations to attract more donations: devoting a high percentage of donations to programs, promoting the organization’s image through fundraising activities, having a large amount of assets that ensures a sustainable financial structure, and providing online information that demonstrates how the organization has dealt with its mission. Moreover, the study reveals that providing high amounts of disclosure on the organization’s website can have a conditional effect on fundraising expenses by boosting the positive effect of these expenses on donations. The results of this study contribute to the debate on the effectiveness of organizational factors in attracting funds from donors willing to support environmental nonprofits.

scholarly journals The Market for Charitable Giving

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A List
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
Charitable Contributions ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half ◽  
Matching Grants

Through good and bad economic times, charitable gifts have continued to roll in largely unabated over the past half century. In a typical year, total charitable gifts of money now exceed 2 percent of gross domestic product. Moreover, charitable giving has nearly doubled in real terms since 1990, and the number of nonprofit organizations registered with the IRS grew by nearly 60 percent from 1995 to 2005. This study provides a perspective on the economic interplay of three types of actors: donors, charitable organizations, and government. How much is given annually? Who gives? Who are the recipients of these gifts? Would changes in the tax treatment of charitable contributions lead to more or less giving? How can charitable institutions design mechanisms to generate the greatest level of gifts? What about the effectiveness of seed money and matching grants?

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

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Price Competition ◽  
Dictator Game ◽  
Relative Price ◽  
Fundraising Strategies ◽  
Matching Grant ◽  
Good Provision ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Choice Set

The competition for donations between charities is tough. Yet, little is known about how giving behavior is affected by competition between charities. Do people have a need to satisfy their demand for giving by contributing to a particular charity? Or can the demand for doing good be satisfied by giving to any organization? In a donation dictator game, I vary competition between charities by (i) altering the set of similar real charities to which subjects can donate and (ii) changing the relative price of giving to a randomly selected charity in the choice set by introducing a matching grant. I find weak substitution between charities when giving to more than one charity is possible, as the donated amounts to individual charities decrease with the size of the choice set. At the same time, aggregate giving to all charities increases when charities are in competition. Intensified competition through an increase in the charitable giving market seems to attract new giving and increases overall public good provision. Price competition, however, does not attract new donations when market size is constant and charities compete for donations. These findings carry important insights for managers of nonprofit organizations and provide information on how to improve existing fundraising strategies. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, decision analysis.

scholarly journals Giving Voice beyond Her Vote: How Women Used Charitable Giving to Create Social Change after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra J. Mesch ◽  
Una O. Osili ◽  
Jonathan J. Bergdoll ◽  
Tessa B. Skidmore ◽  
Jacqueline E. L. Ackerman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Transaction Data ◽  
Political Events

AbstractThis study fills a gap in research on the philanthropic outcomes of political events. More specifically, it provides empirical evidence to supplement anecdotal reports that nonprofit organizations experienced a substantial increase in donations following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Based on daily transaction data from an online giving platform, the study uses random-effect panel Ordinary Least Squares models to examine whether and how charitable giving patterns changed after Election Day 2016. Overall, our analyses show no evidence of increased giving due to the election; however, gender differences are apparent. Women donated in greater amounts than men following Election Day, and they appear to have targeted relevant progressive charities with their giving.

Financial Attitudes and Charitable Giving

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-115
Author(s):  
Shane Enete ◽  
Stuart Heckman ◽  
Derek Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Survey Of Consumer Finances ◽  
Financial Variables ◽  
Financial Activity ◽  
Consumer Finances ◽  
Information Set ◽  
Subjective Financial Knowledge

Why do people give away their money? Charitable giving has traditionally been modeled using socioeconomic (i.e., age, income, education) and psychographic variables (i.e., self-esteem, guilt, pity). However, given that charitable giving is, inherently, a financial activity, would financial variables with a psychographic element (i.e., financial attitudinal variables) have the ability to improve the prediction of giving behavior? Using the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we found that higher risk tolerance, higher subjective financial knowledge, longer financial time horizon, and access to emergency funds from friends/relatives all were positively associated with charitable giving. The results of this study help broaden the potential information set for financial counselors, marketers, nonprofit organizations, or policymakers when understanding a client's intention to charitably give and identifying potential donors beyond traditional socioeconomic and psychographic variables.

Twitter Usage Using Common Reference to Tinnitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Jianyuan Ni ◽  
Monica L. Bellon-Harn ◽  
Jiang Zhang ◽  
Yueqing Li ◽  
Vinaya Manchaiah
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Sectional Analysis ◽  
Share Information

Objective The objective of the study was to examine specific patterns of Twitter usage using common reference to tinnitus. Method The study used cross-sectional analysis of data generated from Twitter data. Twitter content, language, reach, users, accounts, temporal trends, and social networks were examined. Results Around 70,000 tweets were identified and analyzed from May to October 2018. Of the 100 most active Twitter accounts, organizations owned 52%, individuals owned 44%, and 4% of the accounts were unknown. Commercial/for-profit and nonprofit organizations were the most common organization account owners (i.e., 26% and 16%, respectively). Seven unique tweets were identified with a reach of over 400 Twitter users. The greatest reach exceeded 2,000 users. Temporal analysis identified retweet outliers (> 200 retweets per hour) that corresponded to a widely publicized event involving the response of a Twitter user to another user's joke. Content analysis indicated that Twitter is a platform that primarily functions to advocate, share personal experiences, or share information about management of tinnitus rather than to provide social support and build relationships. Conclusions Twitter accounts owned by organizations outnumbered individual accounts, and commercial/for-profit user accounts were the most frequently active organization account type. Analyses of social media use can be helpful in discovering issues of interest to the tinnitus community as well as determining which users and organizations are dominating social network conversations.

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