Why I give money to unknown people? An investigation of online donation and forwarding intention

2021 ◽  
pp. 101055
Author(s):  
Tingting Hou ◽  
Keke Hou ◽  
Xue Wang ◽  
Xin (Robert) Luo
Keyword(s):  
Online Donation

scholarly journals Blockchain based Trusted Charity Fund-Raising

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Charitable Donation ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Donation ◽  
Processing Delay

The proposed system is a decentralized authentic platform that aims to leverage blockchain along with other technologies to design a trusted framework which would enable charity donations to be as accountable, trustworthy and transparent. The paper explores the potential for deploying blockchain within existing organizations to support smooth conduction of charity funds from the donor to the actual needy person using a stable Ethereum based Blockchain oriented platform. In this fast developing world of modernization, some people are becoming too competitive to earn money while others have no clue about getting even a penny. But at the same time, there exist people who wish to contribute to the society out of altruism. There exist many online donation platforms in the world and yet issues concerning extra fees, accountability and processing delay still exist as well as these existing centralized systems for charities are so corrupt that people lose belief in these trustless systems and hence the charities become futile. This paper explores how the blockchain can be leveraged in the philanthropic sector, through charitable donation services via a web- based donor platform.

scholarly journals Follow the crowd: Social information and crowdfunding donations in a large field experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Van Teunenbroek ◽  
René Bekkers
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Natural Field Experiment ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Online Donation ◽  
Donation Behavior ◽  
The Individual

Purposely guiding human decision making with a discrete suggestion, ‘nudging’, is increasingly popular. One particularly promising nudge is to provide decision makers with information about the decisions of others, also referred to as social information. Social information is often applied in fundraising campaigns to increase individual donations. A discrete suggestion such as the donation amount of others can result in donors donating similar amounts. We examined effects of social information in a relatively new context, namely crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is a new online fundraising tool. Our study, based on a large natural field experiment (n = 24,070), tests to what extent social information affects online donation behavior and how its effects vary throughout the duration of a campaign. We show that social information increases the individual donation amount by 17%, which is close to the average of 14% found in previous studies. However, social information did not attract more donors: the participation rate was not affected. Our study is the first to pinpoint the stage of the funding campaign at which the effect of social information is most pronounced. We found that social information is most effective in increasing donations at the beginning of crowdfunding campaigns. All materials for this article are available at https://osf.io/epuj6/.

scholarly journals Who Clicks on Online Donation? Understanding the Characteristics of SNS Users during Participation in Online Campaigns

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun Young Park ◽  
Jin Hwa Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Online Donation ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Online Social Interaction ◽  
Donation Behavior ◽  
Donation Intention ◽  
Positive Effect

The purpose of this study is to explore the characteristics of SNS (Social Network Service) users as potential donors for the sustainability of online donation campaigns. For this purpose, we examined the relationship between SNS users’ characteristics, social interaction and donation intention. Based on self-construal level theory, we assume that SNS users’ characteristics (independent-self and interdependent-self) affect their social interaction and in turn their online donation behaviors. Specifically, we suggest that people with an interdependent disposition tend to have more social interaction, which in turn has a positive effect on participation in donation through the mediation of empathy for the beneficiaries of the donation described in the advertisement. In order to verify the hypotheses, we use structural equation modeling to analyze data collected from 116 participants through online surveys. The findings of this study are as follows. First, individuals with an interdependent disposition have more online social interaction, whereas an independent disposition does not have a significant effect on social interaction online. Second, SNS users’ social interaction has a positive effect on empathy for the beneficiaries of donation. Third, empathy for beneficiaries has a positive effect on participation in online donations. These findings confirm the psychological mechanism between online social interaction and donation behavior and contribute useful guidance for non-profit organizations that design and implement online donation campaigns.

scholarly journals Online Donation for Covid-19 as Connective Action in Indonesia and Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonny Dian Effendi ◽  
◽  
Nong Thi Xuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Donation ◽  
Connective Action ◽  
Online Donations ◽  
Internet And Social Media

This study discusses how the internet facilitated the online donation movement to help deal with the Covid-19 in Indonesia and Vietnam. The internet has critical roles in online donations by spreading information, connecting individuals, and making an online donation movement. We use the connective action concept to explain how the social movement is developed by connecting people through the loose organizational or no-organizational platform. We find that the internet and social media have an essential role in informing, connecting, and simultaneously being a means of online donation activities of individuals from various backgrounds. In this action, individuals are connected emotionally and encourage their empathy and solidarity across identities. In other words, the online connection encourages people to gather and donate as social action. However, in contrast to the connective action concept based on real (offline) action, the online donation for Covid-19 shows that individuals are connected and act online. Therefore, conceptually, the online donation case could enrich the connective action concept in the context of online connection and online action.

scholarly journals E-Sharing : Developing a Web Based Online Donation System

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Hadeel Ibrahim Alzahrani ◽  
Zahraa Al Thnayyan ◽  
Sahar Al-Qalaleef ◽  
Fatimah Al Talaq ◽  
Muneerah Alshabanah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Sql Server ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Charitable Donation ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Online Donation

Nowadays there are so many people who are surviving on only one meal per day. Especially in developing countries, it is one of the major problems. On the other hand, there is so much wastage of food every day. Some poor people need clothes and vessels, and children need some books and study kits. Solution to this is that we only need to donate the leftover food to needy people, charities, and our old stuff. For that to happen, we need some sort of platform. This could be any online platform like a website/web application. In Saudi Arabia, there are so many people who are capable of making donations and also there are so many Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) which are helping poor and needy people of Saudi Arabia. But to connection gap is not as blur as it should be. There has to be some simple, fast, intuitive and secure way of doing such online donations so that users can donate easily with just a click. The aim of this work is to design and develop a Web Based Online charitable Donation System. Where, the charitable website will collect the charitable donations (such as clothes, toys, school tools) and delivers it to the children who need it. The proposed system will provide voluntary opportunities for those wishing to be volunteer in delivering the donations to the homes of the poor for free. The proposed work was designed and developed using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), SQL Server for implemented the database, and ASP.net and Visual basic programming languages.

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