T paper presents a utility function model of donors who need to determine their donation to a charity organization that structures and publishes donations by tiers. By considering the prestige associated with each tier level, our analysis suggests that a tiered scheme generates an incentive for donors to raise their donation to the next tier when the originally intended donation is close to the...

Why many large non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are becoming multinational entities? What are the welfare implications of this integration of markets for development donations? To answer these questions, we build a simple two-country model with horizontally di¤erentiated NGOs competing through fundraising e¤ort. We …nd that NGOs become multinational if the economies of scale in fundraising...

Crowdfunding allows the public to fund creative projects, including curiosity-driven scientific research. Last Fall, I was part of a team that raised $25,460 from an international coalition of "micropatrons" for an open, pharmacological research project called Crowd4Discovery. The goal of Crowd4Discovery is to determine the precise location of amphetamines inside mouse brain cells, and we are s...

This study is intended to examine the fatwa of National Sharia Council Indonesian Ulema (DSN-MUI) regarding Fundraising under Wakalah bi al-Istismar Agreement which provides greater opportunities for Islamic financial institutions in Indonesia raising and managing capital. uses a document approach by using DSN-MUI Number 152 2022 as main source, analyzed qualitative approach. shows that has pro...