Visualization using Google Earth is an effective way of presenting geographically linked data. The GEW project shows how university administrators, particularly the admissions, alumni and development offices can deploy data they already have to enhance resource allocation in their recruiting and fundraising efforts. GEW provides an administrative interface for inputting spreadsheet data and a v...

Suggested contributions, membership categories, and discrete, incremental thank-you gifts are devices often used by benevolent associations that provide public goods. Such devices focus donations into discrete levels, thereby effectively limiting the donors’ freedom to give. We study the effects on overall donations of the tradeoff between rigid schemes that severely restrict the choices of con...

Abstract In this chapter, I introduce the idea that professional fundraising is, in words of one Canadian fundraiser, a “business hope.” argue successful careers provide lens for understanding Canada’s neoliberalization. However, to avoid reducing neoliberalism broad abstraction, make three commitments book: first, show meaning through fundraisers’ perspectives and policy context their late 199...

American medical institutions commonly solicit donations from wealthy individuals who receive care [1,2]. Physicians are often encouraged to assist in these programs because their existing relationships afford them insights into each patient’s clinical history, personality, and financial situation; experience has shown that physician involvement can increase the frequency and size of donations ...

The boy in the poster gasps for air, his face barely above the surface of water. The tagline reads: “Cystic fibrosis is like drowning on the inside.” Another ad from the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation says that breathing with cystic fibrosis (CF) is like breathing through a straw. “No wonder so many people with CF stop breathing in their early 30s,” the poster states. Advocacy groups that ...