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Real Time Charitable Giving [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Examines how the ability to send small donations via text message facilitated giving for Haiti earthquake relief efforts, including characteristics of text donors, preferred methods of giving and encouraging others to give, and giving to other ...

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A pipeline crisis or a sustainability crisis? Local and national succession planning for headteachers in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recruiting and retaining school leaders is a challenge in many systems worldwide. Previous research has identified three distinct ways in which succession planning can be conceptualised and approached: a ‘pipeline’ approach seeks to match supply and demand for the posts that need filling; a ‘pool’ strategy involves proactively identifying and ...
Toby Greany   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Charitable Giving Report, derived from The Blackbaud Index, includes overall giving data from 4,129 nonprofit organizations representing $12.5 billion in total fundraising from 2013.
Steve MacLaughlin
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does government spending really crowd out charitable contributions? new time series evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
We exploit the time series properties of charitable giving data to provide additional insights into the crowding out of charitable contributions in response to government spending.
Russell M. Rhine, Thomas A. Garrett
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Teacher confidence and student engagement with mental health and wellbeing lessons: Learning from an iterative curriculum intervention in schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The mental health and wellbeing of young people has received increasing attention in both research and the wider public discourse. There has been a marked rise in mental health conditions in young people, and the burden of care is increasingly transferred onto schools and teachers.
Thomas Godfrey‐Faussett   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individualism/collectivism and charitable donations: An empirical analysis at the national, regional, and personal levels

open access: yesJournal of Management Science and Engineering
Online donation platforms are instrumental in facilitating individual charitable giving by leveraging the confluence of financial technology and mobile social networks.
Yan Cui   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Analysis of Potential Tax Incentives to Increase Charitable Giving in Puerto Rico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Compares options for improving tax incentives for charitable giving, including lifting the ceiling on deductions as a percentage of adjusted gross income, and estimated effects on nonprofits in Puerto Rico, where average giving is high relative to ...
Elizabeth T. Boris   +3 more
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Connected to Give: Jewish Legacies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is the second report in the "Connected to Give" series, and compares Jews on all sides of planned giving -- those with and without wills, those whose wills do and do not contain provisions for charitable bequests, and those whose charitable bequests
J. Shawn Landres, Jim Gerstein
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Gender differences in charitable giving [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are more generous in terms of the amount given. The latter result generally derives from the focus on mean amount given.
Piper, Greg, Schnepf, Sylke V.
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