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Philanthropic support of higher education is a growing area of interest among academic fundraisers and philanthropy scholars. The academic fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), in particular, are in need of a better understanding of their major donors. This article analyzes a unique database of announced gifts to higher education institutions from 1995 to 2017 to investigate relationships between major donors' characteristics and the magnitude of their gifts to STEM and all other academic disciplines. Major donors to STEM are disproportionately entrepreneurs who, on average, give larger gifts to STEM than other major donors. Quantile regressions reveal a positive and statistically significant relationship between major donors' entrepreneurial status and gift amounts at the 99th quantile (worth US$100 million or more). As major funding sources for academic STEM are increasingly threatened, these findings are pertinent to academic institutions seeking to leverage major donors as an alternative source of funding.

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore what would make disaster donors different from non-donors, with particular attention paid to differences in two forms of donations: the monetary donation that directly benefits the beneficiary and the charitable donation that is used by charitable organizations to support their disaster relief activities. Differences in the perceived effectiveness of other disaster relief activities, skepticism about charitable organizations, disaster experience, disaster preparedness, and disaster insight were also examined between the two groups.Design/methodology/approach– A total of 300 Japanese participants were asked to complete a14-item questionnaire online. A series of comparative analyses were conducted to examine differences between donors and non-donors in the questionnaire items.Findings– Although non-donors evaluated the effectiveness of the monetary donation more positively than the charitable donation, donors evaluated the effectiveness of all the disaster relief activities more positively than non-donors. Moreover, donors were more prepared for disasters and more insightful into the current situation of the disaster victims than non-donors.Research limitations/implications– Along with the internal and external factors previously found, disaster awareness may be a key to increasing people's intention to donate for disaster victims. Such awareness could be fostered through successful disaster education and appropriate media coverage of disasters.Originality/value– The findings that non-donors generally have a less positive view of disaster relief activities imply that non-donors may be less knowledgeable than donors about how charitable activities can work and benefit disaster victims.

AbstractThis paper describes the aid allocation behaviours of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors and their response to the emergence of China in the aid landscape. Our analysis presents evidences of donors' competition in Africa.We investigate whether African countries with the Chinese influence expanding receive favourable aid modalities from G7 donors over the period 2000–2011. We find a robust positive relationship between the level of aid and the number of China projects a country receives and the level of bilateral aid from G7 donors, even after accounting for standard economic and political factors. Results indicate that DAC donors use bilateral aid to tackle the increasing influence of China in Africa, by delivering more aid to countries with natural resources or strategic political interest. The paper also assesses empirically whether strategic interests and economic competition between DAC donors and China have influenced the composition of aid flows received by African countries.Our empirical strategy is sharpened by the use of a spatial‐X model and a difference‐in‐difference estimation that leverages a 'natural' experiment in DAC aid flows in the aftermath of the financial crisis, with China increasing his sphere of influence in Africa. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

AbstractThis study examines motives that lie behind personal philanthropy and explores how donors are different from nondonors, and why donors give the amounts they do. It then suggests a general model of individual donating behavior consisting of five predictor variables.

AbstractThe 11 Questions Every Donor Asks and the Answers All Donors Crave. Harvey McKinnon. Medfield, Mass.: Emerson & Church, 2008. 112 pp., $24.95 paper.

TITLE PAGE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: Introduction: The Most Significant Philanthropists Ever -- Big Donors, Big Impact -- The New Golden Age of Giving -- The Coming Impact Revolution -- Who Are These Gen Xers and Millennials? -- In Their Own Words -- Using This Book -- Notes -- PART ONE: The Impact Revolution -- CHAPTER 2: Show Me the Impact -- Impact Obsession -- Moving the Needle -- The Power of Seeing -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3: Changing Strategies for a New Golden Age -- Passionate about Strategy -- Same Issues, Bigger Impact -- Strategies for Success -- Give Local-But Differently -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4: Why Not Innovate? -- Excited About Innovation, Okay with Blurriness -- The New Tool Belt -- Using Every Tool for Impact -- Aspirational Innovators -- Being Unreasonable to Do Something Extraordinary -- Taking Risks and Failing Forward -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- PART TWO: Going All In -- CHAPTER 5: The "Do Something" Generation -- Get Out There and Do It -- Looking for a Real Relationship -- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- Engaged Donors Are Bigger, Better Donors -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6: More Than an ATM -- Valuing Me for Me -- More Than a Party Planner -- The Value of Talent -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Inspirational Peer Pressure -- Transformation Not Transaction -- Filling the Learning Gap -- A Little Inspiration -- Peer Giving Is Strategic Giving -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- PART THREE: Respectful Revolutionaries -- CHAPTER 8: Living Values Seamlessly -- Values, Not Valuables -- Origins, Where the Values Come From -- A Delicate Balance -- Living Seamlessly and Managing Up -- What Does This Mean? -- Notes -- CHAPTER 9: On the Shoulders of Giants -- The Importance of the Family Narrative