The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has flooded public health organizations around the world, highlighting significance and responsibility of medical crowdfunding in filling a series gaps shortcomings publicly funded system providing new fundraising solution for people that addresses health-related needs. However, fact remains from sources is relatively low only few studies have been co...

The topic of fundraising is garnering increased attention from nonprofit practitioners due to the worldwide growth sector and subsequent competition for private funds. Despite this surge, academic literature on bequest fundraising, in particular, has remained mainly limited narrow aspects discipline. Based a systematic review published over past 25 years, we synthesize various research perspect...

We examine the influence of venture capital on patented inventions in the United States across twenty industries over three decades. We address concerns about causality in several ways, including exploiting a 1979 policy shift that spurred venture capital fundraising. We find that increases in venture capital activity in an industry are associated with significantly higher patenting rates. Whil...

Origins and consequences of charitable confidence are investigated with the Giving in the Netherlands Panel Survey 2002-2004 (n=1,246). Charitable confidence is higher among the higher educated, children of volunteers, younger age groups, those with more faith in people, those who are aware of standards of excellence for fundraising organizations, and among persons with altruistic and joy-of-gi...

We study charitable giving within social groups. Exploiting a unique dataset, we establish three key relationships between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of donations; (ii) a negative relationship between group size and the amount given by each donor; (iii) no relationship between group size and the total amount ra...

Can candidates spend their way into financial success? We propose that the 2007 presidential money primary offers unprecedented leverage to evaluate spending’s influence since it allows for sharper controls of confounding factors. Our results demonstrate that greater candidate spending on fundraisingrelated efforts is associated with significant future financial benefits. We estimate that, prio...

Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter are expected to “democratize” funding by increasing the availability of capital to traditionally underrepresented groups, but there is conflicting evidence about racial disparities in success rates. This paper contributes to the information systems literature on crowdfunding by examining the racial dynamics in the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. The ra...

Why individuals make charitable contributions and voluntarily provide public goods is an important question in modern society. Extensive research on voluntary contributions has been conducted by economists (Davis & Holt, 1993; Ledyard, 1995) and psychologists (Dawes, 1980). Many theories have been proposed to explain why individuals give (or cooperate) when it is in their own (financial) intere...