A Survey on Charitable Acts, Challenges and Using Charitable Mobile Application

Charitable view.

If the eyes are the windows of the soul, an organisation's website is its coloured contact lens. Designed to project the best possible image, in unfeasible colours and brightness, it is part image-enhancement, part essential accessory for focusing on the important things in life.

Charitable Giving

In 2005 charitable giving in the United States totaled over $260 billon, or around 1.9% of personal income, making it a significant fraction of the economy. Individual giving accounted for 77% of this total, while foundations accounted for 12%, bequests for 7%, and corporations for 5% (Giving USA, 2006). Almost 70% of US households report giving to charity. While the US typically has one of the...

Charitable Giving

The Indore Charitable Hospital

medical officer, and as in the report mention is made of him in high terms of commendation, the report appears as having been written by himself for the purpose of praising up himself and his work. He is naturally much annoyed at being placed in such a ridiculous position. As a matter of fact the report was written and signed by Surgeon-Major Caldecott, then officiating for me as Superintendent...

(Un)Informed Charitable Giving∗

Evidence suggests little informed giving. To understand this behavior, we examine a model of charitable giving with costly information. We find that an individual who considers a smaller contribution is less likely to seek information, and thus the percentage of informed giving diminishes as the population grows. We also find that a direct grant to the charity exacerbates crowding-out by discou...