We consider utilitarian models of altruism constrained by limited willingness to sacrifice self-interest. By these models donors should strive to maximize the good they do, within the constraint. We describe several departures from predictions of these models and provide new data on some of them, based on studies conducted on the World Wide Web. We find: people focus on minimizing operating cos...

Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. We conduct field experiments to see which sealed bid format, first price, second price or all-pay, raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated by the first price auc...

Like US Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, disease awareness has made it into the US calendar. In 2012 we have 175 officially designated “national health observances,” including rabies day, sleep awareness week, endometriosis awareness month, and many observances for heart disease and a variety of cancers.None is more prominent than breast cancer awareness month, otherwise known as ...

This article aims to describe the economic situation in covid 19 pandemic era and analyze function of zakat restoring society economy during Covid-19 pandemic. The method used this research was a literature study. data collection techniques were carried out two ways comprised primary secondary data. analysis content analysis. results showed that served as manifestation human solidarity, which m...

Zakat is one of the pillars Islam, it obligatory for every Muslim to do it. In fact, there are still many Muslims who not understand types zakat, zakat calculation, payment and processing causing them forget pay zakat. Moreover, in this modern era, people want anything fast practical. Even though if Muslimah willing diligently, course can help improve economy middle lower class society. And mus...

Médecins Sans Frontières was there at the start of the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa and has played a pivotal role in the global response—building health centres, training care staff, and even advising the United Nations, writes Sophie Arie. The charity has decades of experience in bringing volunteer doctors to where they are needed in emergency situations and for longer term humanitari...

This study aims to analyze the Role of Accounting Information Systems on Financial Management Accountability at National Amil Zakat Board North Sumatra Province. The research method used in this is a qualitative and approach uses descriptive analysis. results conclude that BAZNAS Province SIMBA (Zakat System) based PSAK 109 collect distribute zakat, infaq alms. influence accounting information ...