Resources That Make You Generous: Effects of Social and Human Resources on Charitable Giving

Wiepking, Pamala; Maas, Ineke

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“…It shows that the majority of donations occur as a response to a solicitation, and that the way the potential donors are solicited determines whether the solicitation is effective [38]. Much of this research has explored the impact of the number of solicitations businesses receive [49][50][51], the causes of "donor fatigue" [52], and the effectiveness of direct (a personal request) vs. indirect (a letter) solicitation [38]. Examining the various ways that food redistribution organisations approach and solicit food businesses to donate their surplus food will be interesting to determine whether solicitations for surplus food differ to solicitations for money.…”

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Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

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Abstract:As global concern about sustainability, food waste, and poverty increases, there is an urgent need to understand what motivates businesses to adopt pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours. This paper suggests that food redistribution organisations hold both pro-social and pro-environmental aims, due to their concern with reducing food surplus and food insecurity. To achieve this, they must motivate food businesses to donate their surplus food. However, little is known about the values, attitudes, and motives of food industry donors. The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and conceptual overview to set out principles from which empirical data on food redistribution will be analysed or critiqued. Specifically, it explores pro-social and pro-environmental literature, as these fields have examined the motivations behind donations and reducing environmental impact. This review highlights that charitable giving of food is different to other inorganic material, such as money. Thus, future research is needed to capture the unique temporal, emotional, social, and environmental factors that motivate food donations. This information may contribute to the development of strategies that target and motivate people from the food industry to become food donors. Alternatively, it may reveal concerns about food donations, and highlight the need for other approaches to food waste and food insecurity.

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Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

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“…• Rodinný stav Na rozdíly v dárcovství z hlediska rodinného stavu se zaměřuje řada výzkumů [viz Hasens, 2006;Hrung, 2004;Rooney et al, 2005;Mesch et al, 2006;James, Sharpe et al, 2007;Hughes a Luksetich, 2007;Wiepking a Maas, 2009;Marx a Carter, 2014]. Cílem výzkumů Andreoniho a jeho kolegů [Andreoni, Brown a Rischal, 2003] bylo zjistit, zda se v manželství lidé rozhodují stejně jako osoby svobodné, rozvedené či ovdovělé, nebo zda se jedná spíše o společné rozhodnutí.…”

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A Model of Donor Behaviour in the Czech Republic

Hladká¹,

Hyánek²

2017

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A Model of Donor Behaviour in the Czech RepublicThe article examines the variables underlying an individual's decision to donate money to a nonprofit organisation. Based on a content analysis of leading foreign research, we identify and systematise factors that may affect an individual's decision to donate money, and we carry out an empirical testing in the Czech Republic. This article presents answers to the following question: which determinants affect significantly the willingness to donate? What does the model of donor behaviour look like on a selected sample? The authors apply a theoretical justification set of variables affecting donor behaviour to a questionnaire survey. Multiple linear regression analysis and binary logistic regression are used to determine which of the variables is the most influential. Among the statistically significant variables we can include: respondent's income, age, relations with the organisation and employees, the final beneficiary, religious orientation, affection, compassion and solidarity, gratitude, social responsibility and moral obligation, self-centred, feel good, pity, faith in justice.Keywords: altruism, charitable giving, motive, non-profit organisation, philanthropy, pro-social behaviour JEL Classification: C91, D01, D64 ÚvodPro ověření platnosti vlivu všech předpokládaných faktorů, je nezbytné provést výzkum a definovat podstatu vztahu mezi jednotlivými faktory. Protože nejsou známy všechny možné proměnné, které vstupují do rozhodovacího procesu dárce, pracují autoři dále v textu a v provedeném výzkumu pouze s těmi, které byly v rámci content analysis identifikovány v nejvýznamnějších studiích. Cílem provedeného výzkumného šetření bylo identifikovat faktory, které mají u vybraného vzorku obyvatel České republiky vliv na rozhodnutí darovat finanční prostředky neziskovým organizacím a analyzovat tyto faktory ve vzájemných vztazích. Výzkum byl omezen na faktory ovlivňující dárcovství 1) nestátním neziskovým organizacím, 2) individuální a 3) peněžní (do výzkumu nebylo zahrnuto darování firemní).Předkládaný článek prezentuje pouze některé výsledky výzkumného šetření. Jeho cílem je na základě výsledků regresní analýzy všech identifikovaných proměnných vytvořit model dárcovského chování v České republice 1 Článek je zpracován jako jeden z výstupů výzkumného projektu "Vliv veřejných financí na strukturu zdrojů a produkci neziskových institucí" registrovaného u Grantové agentury České republiky pod evidenčním číslem GA14-06856S.* Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Ekonomicko-správní fakulta (marie@hladka.cz; hyanek@econ.muni.cz).

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“…Today, this is still an important function of the educational system (Hurrelmann 2002). But education not only instills pro-social values, it also enables people to acquire important cognitive competences, like verbal ability (Wiepking and Maas 2009) and reading and writing skills, that improve their qualifications for doing voluntary work. Cognitive competence, therefore, is one of the most important factors explaining the effect of education on volunteering (Gesthuizen and Scheepers 2012).…”

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Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006

2016

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During the last three decades Dutch church attendance rates dropped considerably, while the relative share of volunteers in non-religious organizations decreased at a slower rate. This is an unexpected development given the positive association between religious involvement and volunteering. In this article, we try to account for this development by addressing the following question: Why has a massive and ongoing decline of church attendance in the Netherlands not resulted in a similar drop in the relative number of volunteers in non-religious voluntary organizations? In view of this question, we wonder if the negative effect of declining church attendance on volunteering is perhaps counterbalanced by a positive effect of educational expansion. Our findings reveal that this is indeed the case, but these counterbalancing effects are only modest.Résumé Au cours des trente dernières années, les taux de fréquentation des églises hollandaises ont baissé considérablement, tandis que la part relative des bénévoles dans les organisations laïques a diminué à un rythme plus lent. Ce développement est inattendu étant donné l'association positive entre l'engagement religieux et le bénévolat. Dans cet article, nous tentons d'expliquer cette évolution en nous penchant sur la question suivante : Pourquoi la baisse massive et continue de la fréquentation des églises aux Pays-Bas n'a-t-elle pas entrainé une baisse similaire du nombre relatif de bénévoles dans les organismes bénévoles laïques ? Resumen Durante las tres últimas décadas, las tasas de asistencia a la iglesia danesa han descendido considerablemente, mientras que la participación relativa de voluntarios en organizaciones no religiosas descendían a una tasa más lenta. Esto es un cambio inesperado dada la asociación positiva entre implicación religiosa y voluntariado. En el presente artículo, tratamos de responder a este cambio abordando la siguiente pregunta: >Por qué un descenso masivo y continuo de la asistencia a la iglesia en los Países Bajos no ha dado lugar a una caída similar en el número relativo de voluntarios en organizaciones voluntarias no religiosas? A la vista de esta pregunta, nos preguntamos si el efecto negativo de la descendente asistencia a la iglesia sobre el voluntariado queda compensado quizás por un efecto positivo de la expansión educativa. Nuestros hallazgos revelan que éste es, realmente, el caso, pero estos efectos de contrapeso son sólo modestos.

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Resources That Make You Generous: Effects of Social and Human Resources on Charitable Giving

Abstract: The authors thank René Bekkers, Theo Schuyt and the anonymous reviewers of Social Forces for their comments and suggestions.

Cited by 134 publications

References 56 publications

Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

Charity Starts … at Work? Conceptual Foundations for Research with Businesses that Donate to Food Redistribution Organisations

A Model of Donor Behaviour in the Czech Republic

Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006

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