Generosity and Philanthropy: a Literature Review

Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in U.S. Communities

This article focuses on geographic communities as fields in which human-made and natural events occasionally disrupt the lives of organizations. We develop an institutional perspective to unpack how and why major events within communities affect organizations in the context of corporate philanthropy. To test this framework, we examine how different types of megaevents (the Olympics, the Super B...

Philanthropy and the Cultural and Heritage sector: A Literature Review

آموزش تعهد حرفه ای در درس آناتومی و سالن تشریح جسد

Introduction: Medical ethics and professionalism is not limited to clinical course. With the implementation of vertical integration strategy in medical education in the 21st century, concepts such as professionalism, critical thinking, effective communication, collaboration and self-directed learning can be educated in basic sciences too. Methods: In this review article, the key words "ca...

Who gives ? A literature review of predictors of charitable giving . Part Two : Gender , family composition and income

This is the second of two articles in which we present a comprehensive review of the multidisciplinary academic literature on philanthropy. In this article, we identify the following predictors of charitable giving by individuals and/or households: gender, family composition and income. For each predictor, we discuss the evidence for the mechanisms that may explain why the predictor is correlat...

What opportunities exist to improve consumer engagement in health care?

Context for this review At the request of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s largest public health philanthropy, AcademyHealth undertook a review and synthesis of recent literature to better understand the state of knowledge about consumer engagement in health care – specifically, (1) consumers’ interactions with clinicians and clinical settings and (2) their use of informa...