Intro -- Fundraising Principles and Practice -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Authors -- 1 Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector -- Objectives -- Introduction -- A "Third" Sector -- A Tax-Based Definition -- A Structural-Operational Definition -- Size and...

"The text is structured in four sections. In the first we begin by providing an overview of the development of the profession and defining the sector it serves. We then move on to consider donor behavior examining who gives, why people give and the social and environmental influences on that...

Many businesses track repeat transactions on a discrete-time basis. These include: (1) companies where transactions can only occur at fixed regular intervals, (2) firms that frequently associate transactions with specific events (e.g., a charity that records whether or not supporters respond to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques to the collective decision-making environment to appraise two-stage production process under different decision preferences. Design/methodology/approach: The authors propose a novel multi-criteria group...