The recent approval of Strimvelis, the first ex vivo gene therapy to gain marketing authorization (Schimmer & Breazzano, 2016), has drawn attention to Fondazione Telethon, the Italian charity that played a pivotal role in this effort. Although it is not uncommon that advanced therapies, such as Strimvelis, are developed by partnerships between academia and industry, direct involvement of a char...

study of different islamic agreements efficiency in free of interest banking system through modern scientific approaches is of outmost importance. in this paper attempt has been made to study and compare the efficiency of charity loan agreement and cooperative agreements by dea approach in branches of mellat bank in kermanshah province as case study. in this direction, the data related to five ...

We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects’ performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects’ performance increases, that is, they donate more to charity, when their relative performance is made public. In line with the competitive ...

Six years ago the The BMJ’s UK and global readership forged an enduring relationship with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors Without Borders), after the journal chose it as its inaugural Christmas appeal charity. Since then MSF staff and volunteers regularly update The BMJ’s readers through blogs on thebmj.com about their rapid response and longer term projects to bring medical aid to whe...

Private providers of public goods, such as charities, invariably enlist fund-raisers to organize and collect contributions. Common in charitable fund-raising is seed money, either from a government grant or from a group of ‘‘leadership givers,’’ that launches the fund drive and generates additional gifts. This paper provides a theoretical basis for fund-raisers and seeds to charity. The primary...

The topic of collecting public donations has always attracted the attention charity Non-Governmental Organizations as their basic policy; nevertheless, despite its importance, not much scientific research been conducted on issue. optimal location electronic boxes is effective in optimizing obtained benefits. In this paper, for first time literature, a problem defined with aim maximizing people’...