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Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits : Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?

Capps, Cory S. - 2017

Nonprofit hospitals receive favorable tax treatment in exchange for providing socially beneficial activities. Extending this rationale would suggest that, insofar as suppression of competition would allow nonprofits to cross-subsidize care for needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should...

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Are Pilots Property Taxes for Nonprofits?

Fei, Fan - 2015

Nonprofit charitable organizations are exempt from most taxes, including local property taxes, but U.S. cities and towns increasingly request that nonprofits make payments in lieu of taxes (known as PILOTs). Strictly speaking, PILOTs are voluntary, though nonprofits may feel pressure to make...

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Hall of Mirrors : Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the...

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Toward an Understanding of Why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Edwards, James - 2013

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal …

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Altruism, Rivalry and Crowding-Out in the Nonprofit Firm's Supply of Charity Services : the Case of Hospitals

Frank, Richard G.; Salkever, David S. - 2014

This paper extends previous research on Individuals' supply of charitable donations to the behavior of nonprofit firms. Specifically, we study provision of charity care by private, nonprofit hospitals. We demonstrate that In the absence of large positive income effects on charity care supply,...

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Matching and Challenge Gifts to Charity : Evidence from Laboratory and Natural Field Experiments

Rondeau, Daniel - 2010

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...

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Social Distance and Quality Ratings in Charity Choice

Brown, Alexander L. - 2014

We conduct a laboratory experiment to examine how third-party ratings impact charity choice and donative behavior, particularly in regards to preferences for local charities. Subjects are given a menu of ten charities, with a mix of local and non-local organizations included. We vary whether...

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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities

Andreoni, James - 2010

because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the charities who, after getting the grant, reduce efforts of fund-raising … (fund-raising crowd out)? This is the first paper to separate these two effects. Using a panel of more than 8,000 charities …, we find that crowding out is significant, at about 72 percent. We find this crowding out is due primarily to reduced fund-raising …

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Charitable Memberships, Volunteering, and Discounts : Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment

Lange, Andreas; Stocking, Andrew J. - 2021

Despite the increasing use by charities, significant uncertainty exists about optimal online fundraising mechanisms … demonstrates the importance of conditioning fundraising strategies on the specifics of past donation dimensions …

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Calculating Daf Payout and What We Learn When We Do it Correctly

Andreoni, James; Madoff, Ray - 2022

The tremendous increase in the use of donor-advised funds for charitable donations has led policy-makers to ask if there is sufficient regulation and oversight of DAFs. In the absence of account level reporting, the debate has focused on the average payout rates of DAF sponsoring organizations,...

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