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Half of Fundraisers in the Top Job Would Like to Quit

By On January 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Charity, Culture, Fundraising
From Philanthropy.com One in four nonprofit leaders is so disappointed in fundraising at his or her organization that the last person in the job was fired, according to a new national study to be released this week. And milder frustration is rampant: One in three executives is at best lukewarm about the person now holding [...]
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Lustgarten Foundation Awards $25 Million for Pancreatic Cancer Research

By On January 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Charity
From Foundation Center The Lustgarten Foundation in Bethpage, New York, has announced grants totaling $25 million to advance pancreatic cancer research. Grants were awarded to eighteen scientific and medical institutions working to develop and test early-detection methods and better therapeutic options. The recipients include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the David H. Koch Institute [...]
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Zuckerberg, Zuckerman Nine-Figure Gifts Boost Charity

By On January 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Donations
From Bloomberg David Rockefeller Jr. smiled often, sipped white wine and mingled with patrons at his Sailors for the Sea charity dinner in New York last month. Ticket sales and pledges exceeded his $500,000 goal before dinner was served at Christie’s auction house. By the time dessert arrived, a live and silent auction boosted the [...]
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Panama: charities as a cornerstone to society

By On January 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In International
From International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing Abstract This article describes how charities are regulated in Panama. Charitable institutions which benefit the community are granted special tax benefits. For entities receiving these benefits, reporting is substantial, which involves complying with local regulations, as charities may be entrusted with public funds. Private foundations and [...]
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Understanding charity fundraising events

By On January 3, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In Events
From International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing Abstract The paper analyses fundraising events, in terms of the motivations for supporting an event, the costs and income streams and the efficiency of events. Events vary from sponsored bike rides to fashion shows to annual balls but all events share one defining attribute, the participant [...]
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What Role for Public policy in Promoting Philanthropy?

By On December 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Politics
From Public Management Review Abstract This article presents and discusses the findings of a survey conducted among Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in most of the twenty-seven countries within the European Union, which studied the extent and success of fundraising from philanthropic sources for research. Our data demonstrate that success in fundraising is related to institutional [...]
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Examining Public Hospital Service Failure: The Influence of Service Failure Type, Service Expectations, and Attribution on Consumer Response

By On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Culture
From Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing Abstract This study investigates three independent variables; types of service failure, service expectations, and attribution on postfailure responses in healthcare. A between-subjects 3?×?2?×?2 experimental design using written scenarios was used. The findings demonstrate that customer responses to service failures in hospitals are extensively influenced by the type [...]
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The Raising of Corporate Sponsorship: A Behavioral Study

By On October 25, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Corporate
From Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing Abstract Research was conducted in order to define a “buyer behavior” process for the purchase of sponsorship at a corporate level. A series of interviews was carried out with a number of organizations that are currently involved in sponsorship of varying kinds. A consideration was made to [...]
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Using Video to Build an Organization’s Identity and Brand: A Content Analysis of Nonprofit Organizations’ YouTube Videos

By On October 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Campaigns
From Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing Abstract Organizational scholarship has increasingly focused its attention to how nonprofit, for-profit, and government agencies develop their unique organizational identity through their strategic communication efforts. As social media continues to become more prominent in communication campaigns due to the high levels of public usage and public involvement [...]
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International charity under asymmetric information

By On October 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In International
From Economics Letters Abstract International charity is often subject to moral hazard and adverse selection problems. We show that the burden of informational asymmetries are borne by the most needy countries, even when charities design incentive contracts which limit the rents that some countries can extract. [Full article here]
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