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Online crowdfunding has become an important fundraising channel for medical care. Yet, individuals in need face numerous challenges in meeting their fundraising goals. To improve fundraising, individuals may use project updates to evoke donors' sympathy and secure donations. Informed by the sympathy bias literature, this paper conceptualizes two important but distinct aspects of project updates—positive sentiment and negative sentiment—and hypothesizes their individual and relative impacts on the donation amount of a crowdfunding project. In addition, this paper explores moderating effects of social endorsements on the influence of update sentiment. To test our hypotheses, we conducted two studies. Study 1 examined unique project-day panel data from 1,467 projects on a leading medical crowdfunding platform. Results reveal that both positive and negative update sentiment positively affect the donation amount of a crowdfunding project, but negative updates have a greater effect. Further, endorsements by strong ties and weak ties attenuate the positive effects of update sentiment. Study 2 was a controlled, randomized experiment that corroborated findings from Study 1, established the causality of observed effects, and confirmed the mediating effects of sympathy. The findings of this paper underscore the role of sympathy in enhancing online charitable crowdfunding to individual donors and show project updates with positive or negative sentiment to be potent mechanisms to boost donations. Furthermore, the substitution effect of social endorsement on donation amount also adds nuance to our knowledge suggesting that a proper combination of various information can better help improve crowdfunding performance. Platform operators and fundraisers should prioritize project update sentiment to enhance online charitable crowdfunding success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bereavement counseling is often offered as a referral following an adverse event or after identification of lingering grief. This article proposes the value of prospective bereavement counseling when a person can reasonably anticipate loss to support anticipatory grief and facilitate supportive continuous care planning for patients experiencing loss. This article positions bereavement counseling as care aimed at finding peace by offering a framework of dimensions of peace, opportunities to foster peace in clinically important moments, and guiding questions to facilitate this clinical outcome in health care settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Americans have increasingly turned to online crowdfunding to pay for healthcare costs, but our understanding of the inequalities in medical crowdfunding remains limited. This study investigates racial disparities in medical crowdfunding outcomes and examines the role of communication in amplifying, altering, or even reducing the disparities. Using data from 1,127 medical crowdfunding campaigns on GoFundMe, the study found that beneficiaries of color received significantly fewer donations than their White counterparts. The differences in donations between racial groups were partly attributable to sharing disparities. Campaigns for beneficiaries of color were shared less via e-mail or social media than campaigns for White beneficiaries. Campaign narratives with more humanizing details about beneficiaries were associated with more donations. However, humanizing details did not predict more shares, nor were they linked to smaller disparities in campaign outcomes between racial groups. Post-hoc analyses showed that more humanizing details were linked to fewer campaign donations for male beneficiaries of color. The findings contribute to the scholarship addressing the intersections of communication and health inequality on digital platforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Young Innovative Companies have received considerable attention in the last decade in entrepreneurship and management literature. These firms need financial resources to develop but lack legitimacy in the eyes of investors. This paper empirically explores the determinants of fundraising by analysing 545 Italian innovative start-ups, as defined by the Law 221/2012. In an institutional perspective we propose a model that considers the effect of three different sources of legitimacy. Results show that team educational and professional diversity, incubation and IPRs play a significant role in legitimating the company in the fundraising process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whether charitable fundraising might play a part in funding Britain's ostensibly tax‐funded NHS has been a longstanding dilemma, which until recently has received only occasional scholarly attention. In 1946, Aneurin Bevan argued that one of the main goals of the reformed health care system was to liberate health care from the 'caprice of private charity'. Seven decades later, NHS Charities Together's Urgent Covid‐19 Appeal became a powerful societal rallying cry in the health emergency of the pandemic and raised £150 million in the process. This paper draws together findings from new archival research, a witness seminar with key actors in the NHS charity sector, and qualitative research based on interviews with NHS charity staff and trustees (N = 13), all conducted between 2021 and 2023. We investigate the way in which national appeals have been proposed, debated and implemented at different times in the NHS's history. We trace the recurrence of conflicting ideas about the acceptability of national fundraising for the NHS, about whether public loyalties are to their local services or the national 'brand' and about the introduction of national appeals into a complex ecology of local NHS charities. The history of charitable fundraising for the NHS is, we argue, neither a simple story of spontaneous public generosity, nor often of formal policy reform, but is an artefact of more complex dynamics between a changing cast of local and national actors over the last 75 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To increase charitable donations, not-for-profit organisations sometimes include a pre-giving incentive such as a monetary gift alongside a request to donate. Little is known about how monetary pre-giving incentives impact subsequent donation intentions, particularly for young consumers who are an important market for the not-for-profit sector. Using the principles of reciprocity, this paper aims to examine whether the value of monetary pre-giving incentives induces obligation (i.e. a negative psychological state) and/or gratitude (i.e. a positive psychological state) and whether this subsequently impact young consumers' initial donation amount and future donation intention. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses a one-factor, three-level between-subjects experimental design (n = 274) to test the effect of different values of pre-giving incentives on gratitude, obligation, initial donation amount and future donation intentions of young consumers. Findings: Higher value pre-giving incentives increase young consumers' experience of obligation and subsequent donation intention as well as future donation intention. Unexpectedly, gratitude towards the organisation was not influenced by the value of the pre-giving incentive but did increase obligation. Originality/value: This research highlights an ethical tension about the use of pre-giving incentives to solicit donations from young consumers: while this strategy is effective, it activates an obligation that can negatively impact young consumers' wellbeing. As such, it also contributes to extending the limited empirical examination of the ethics of fundraising. Theoretically, this research extends understanding of the distinct but simultaneous mechanisms of gratitude and obligation, which has not received sufficient research attention, generated by the norm of reciprocity within the not-for-profit context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the agricultural sector, where factors like the type of agriculture, management techniques, and access to funding are critical, disadvantaged people face significant barriers to employment. This study investigated the effects of these factors, especially with regard to sustainability and social farming, on the employment of disadvantaged persons in the Czech Republic. We sent questionnaires to 2036 agricultural businesses within the Czech Republic, and the data we received were sorted and analyzed. There was a favorable relationship between farm size and employment chances. Disadvantaged people were more likely to be hired by large farms, especially those larger than 250 hectares. Furthermore, mixed-production farms were more capable of employing disadvantaged persons, unlike conventional farms, which reached their maximum employment levels at one, three, or six workers. Organic farming had a more even distribution, while biodynamic farming showed limited capacity to employ disadvantaged persons. Farms involved in fundraising had fewer farms but employed more disadvantaged persons (number of employees peaked at two, four, and six), while farms that did not engage in fundraising hired more disadvantaged individuals (peaked at one and three employees). The motivations for employing disadvantaged persons were primarily social concerns, as well as labor shortages and economic and innovative factors. These findings show the importance of agricultural enterprises using these factors to improve the social and economic well-being of disadvantaged persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building perceptions of trustworthiness that encourage donors to give is critical for nonprofit organizations that depend on charitable giving. Several studies focused on the disclosure of financial and performance information to foster public trust and help donors to make giving decisions. Drawing from stewardship theory, this study explores how additional content dimensions of a more relational nature—including appreciation for the support received and willingness to dialog with donors—might be combined with financial and performance dimensions to design effective online disclosure in the view of nonprofits. By focusing on the viewpoint of European community foundations and using the configurational approach of qualitative comparative analysis, we found that information about fundraising campaigns is deemed must‐have content to discharge online. However, this information alone is not considered to be enough; to retain current donors or attract new ones, it must be combined properly with disclosures demonstrating gratitude to and engagement with donors alongside organizational finances and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular channel for project fundraising for entrepreneurial ventures. Such efforts require fundraisers to develop and manage a crowdfunding campaign over a period of time and several stages. Thus, the authors aim to identify the stages fundraisers go through in their crowdfunding campaign process and how their engagement evolves throughout this process. Design/methodology/approach: Following a multiple case study research design analysing six successful campaigns, the current study suggests a taxonomy of stages the fundraisers go through in their crowdfunding campaign management process while identifying the types of engagement displayed and their relative intensity at each of these stages. Findings: The study proposes a five-stage process framework (pre-launch, launch, mid-campaign, conclusion and post-campaign), accompanied by a series of propositions outlining the relative intensity of different types of engagement throughout this process. The authors show that engagement levels appear with high intensity at pre-launch, and to a lesser degree also at the post-launch stage while showing low intensity at the stages in between them. More specifically, cognitive and behavioural engagement are most prominent at the pre- and post-launch stages. Emotional engagement is highest during the launch, mid-launch and conclusion stages. And social engagement maintains moderate levels of intensity throughout the process. Originality/value: This study focuses on the campaign process using engagement theory, thus identifying the differing engagement patterns throughout the dynamic crowdfunding campaign management process, not just in one part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of IT has seen great success in the private sector and is now beginning to fill a similar role for non-profit organizations (NPOs) as well. The use of IT in fundraising activities in NPOs has been studied in the past. But applying this concept in the case of Buddhist temples, which make up the majority of NPOs in a Buddhist country like Thailand, has never been done before. Using the national survey of 16,895 Buddhist temples in Thailand and econometrics modeling reveals that using IT in temple management has a statistically significant effect on generating higher income from fundraising activities. Using the Internet and computers can boost temple donations and fundraising by promoting religious activities. And temples that use websites and social media seem to receive more government subsidies. In addition, other variables, such as location, number of monks and staff, pro-social activities, and temple age, also represent strong determinants of fundraising performance. Therefore, we find that Buddhist temples in Thailand would do well to use the Internet and social media to develop content, provide advice, and preach online, as these technology-enhanced activities play an important role in increasing fundraising efficiency. Thus, training in such current communication technology should be provided to monks so that they can take advantage of such tools to not only increase their productivity, but also to equip themselves with other, up-to-date skills to enhance the religious education of their congregations that they currently provide through traditional preaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the underlying aspects of netizens’ reactions and actions when viewing philanthropic organizations’ posts on social media. The reactions of netizens in question are pressing the like and/or share buttons and writing comments. Meanwhile, the action is to donate. Our data comes from a survey with open-ended questions. Our respondents totaled 583 people. We found that the reaction of pressing the like button is most often done and generally without a specific reason. Netizens will press the share button when the philanthropic organization’s post evokes emotions. Netizens comment to convey trust and as a way to show sympathy for the beneficiaries. Video is a medium with higher news value and makes netizens more willing to donate than photos. Netizens will donate to a philanthropic organization’s post when they trust the institution, and it contains transparent information about the beneficiaries’ conditions and accountability and touches emotions. The presence of relevant religious quotes in the narrative of philanthropic organizations’ posts also increases netizens’ motivation to donate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to verify the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots' gratitude expression for a fundraising campaign on recipients' willingness to donate. The mediating effects of self-efficacy and social worth on the relationship between expressions of gratitude and the willingness to donate were explored. The moderating effect of identity disclosure to enhance the effect of expressing gratitude was also investigated. By conducting a 2 (gratitude expression: absent vs. present) × 3(identity cue: text-only vs. robot vs. human) factorial design experiment with 564 American adults, the AI chatbot's gratitude expression was found to increase the subject's willingness to donate. The effect of these expressions of gratitude was mediated by self-efficacy rather than by social worth. However, when the AI chatbot provided a human identity cue, not only was the mediating effect of self-efficacy strengthened but the mediating effect of social worth was also significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features iCAN, the International Children's Advisory Network, the premier global pediatric platform empowering the patient voice in healthcare, driven by youth for youth. Topics discussed include characteristics of youth members of iCAN, the participation of Dr. Mary Jo Klein in iCAN KIDS in a special Ask the Experts (ATE) session on bioethics in October 2024, and significance of UCB's fundraising success to iCAN.

Librarians are uniquely poised to address the need for connecting individuals to health insurance information resources that are credible, as bias-free as possible, and written with literacy considerations in mind. This article explores health insurance outreach in libraries and presents a thorough list of vetted consumer resources on health insurance information. Each health insurance information resource is assessed, and connections are made to how the resources can be used in practice. This article aims to empower librarians to guide people to reliable health insurance information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Past experience in elective office has always been the best predictor of congressional candidate success in elections. These "quality" candidates come into elections with experience fundraising, name recognition, and general knowledge about how to run a successful campaign. Yet, recent congressional elections have seen an increase in the electoral success of inexperienced candidates. As past experience in office may no longer be valued as it once was, how are these experienced candidates marketing themselves to voters? Are they still leaning into their past experience in elected office or are they more likely to emphasize other occupations and experiences? We expect candidates brand themselves, emphasizing different experiences, based on the type of election they are in and who they are running against. In order to test these expectations, this paper examines all available biography pages of experienced candidates who ran in congressional primaries in 2022. We find clear partisan differences in what candidates past occupational backgrounds they highlight. We find mixed evidence that decisions about what occupations to emphasize vary based on electoral dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces the journey of one artist's personal efforts on behalf of world peace. It lays the groundwork for promoting grassroots peace activism, which ultimately leads to the establishment of the peace organization, Artists for World Peace. Creating artistic designs such as the International Peace Belt, and establishing numerous other projects to raise funds on behalf of social justice and humanitarian endeavors, Artists for World Peace remains one of the more distinguished, non‐governmental organizations for peace and justice; its impact has been felt far and wide. Devoid of political intrigues, it tells the story of how creative peacemaking can be effective in changing many peoples' lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research suggests that global crises generally have a negative impact on donations to nonprofit organizations. In this research note, we challenge whether this wisdom applies to all channels by examining a growing digital fundraising channel, social media peer-to-peer (p2p) fundraising, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Through both United States and German samples, we study which nonprofit organizations over- and underperformed compared to the market average to glean the potential drivers of success. We demonstrate that not all crises lower generosity, provide managerial insights into this new digital fundraising channel, and discuss how our results are generalizable to other channels and crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Catholic universities, like all universities, face a challenge in the form of the rapidly changing higher education industry. This paper offers a framework based on entrepreneurial principles to help Catholic universities think strategically about how to confront these changes. By assessing some aspects of the current moment in which such universities find themselves, this study proposes that the departure of secular academies away from the concept of the university as a center of truth-seeking oriented to the unity of knowledge and the good life, and the corresponding crisis of purpose plaguing the higher education industry offers Catholic institutions a new opportunity to position themselves as a return to the original university paradigm, a model that is suddenly rare. This paper will then consider the specific comparative advantage held by universities possessing a Catholic identity as compared to their non-Catholic counterparts. We will end by considering a few of the many ways in which this advantage can (and should) be reflected in certain aspects of the university, particularly in fundraising and allocating resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental purpose of a university, its faculty, students, and administrative teams is to contribute to the common social good. In the provision of education and advancement of scientific knowledge, a university plays the crucial role of serving society by uplifting the less privileged in its community. This case study examines the Macheo Programme that has been operationalised by Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. Providing an introductory overview of fundraising, the case presents comprehensive details about the educational context in Kenya and how Strathmore University manages its Macheo Programme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Charitable outputs, the immediate effects of charitable organization services, are among the most vital messages for encouraging rational giving, and different outputs should thus affect fundraising effectiveness. However, this topic has received relatively little attention from scholars. Fundraising practice includes two types of charitable outputs—goods‐oriented and services‐oriented, raising the question of how charitable organizations should use these two types of charitable outputs to increase donor support. The findings of four main experimental studies show that the fit of the types of charitable outputs and charitable cause phrasing can promote charitable giving. Specifically, goods‐oriented (vs. services‐oriented) charitable outputs have a better facilitating effect when charitable cause phrasing is concrete (vs. abstract). We also find evidence for the mediating role of ability perception and effort perception in this effect of fit, reflecting different formative pathways that influence individuals' giving. Our research proposes a categorization perspective of charitable outputs and provides managerial guidance for designing fundraising messages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge about whether entrepreneurs' backer‐oriented actions help facilitate successful fundraising, and the mechanism behind it, is still limited. This study aims to mitigate this gap by exploring reward‐based crowdfunding success through the consumer‐based perspective (CBP). Using the elaboration likelihood model (ELM), we investigate how entrepreneurs' backer‐oriented behaviour influences potential backers' information processing and changes their attitude towards campaigns. By analysing a unique dataset collected from China's largest reward‐based crowdfunding platform, our empirical results demonstrate that an entrepreneur's backer‐oriented behaviour and strength are positively associated with reward‐based crowdfunding success. This paper provides a new angle to investigate reward‐based crowdfunding success, emphasizing the importance of CBP during the fundraising stage. In addition to high‐quality campaign content, entrepreneurs' backer‐oriented actions, such as answering questions and providing elaborate answers, are crucial in facilitating fundraising. The implications for future theory development, empirical research and crowdfunding practitioners are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the process and elements presented in a value co-creation process between non-profits and donors, as well as the outcomes of this interaction. The study includes semi-structured interviews with managers and donors, as well as first-hand observation and notes from the telemarketing department of two health-related non-profits (NPOs). To represent the interaction between actors, the Yin and Yang model of value co-creation is proposed. In relation to the outcomes of this relationship, despite the elements of co-creation value that are highlighted in the literature, that is, dialog and transparency, other relevant components stood out more in this context, such as trust and reputation. This research broadens the literature in the field of NPOs, since most researches on value co-creation are centered on the private sector and focus the analysis on the end user, which in the non-profit sector of health care would be the patient. Otherwise, this research focuses on a resource integrator actor, that is, the donor. Managerial contributions and future research directions are also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This case study illustrates current management challenges many arts and cultural institutions face such as declining public subsidies, pressure to be more entrepreneurial, increasing competition in fundraising as well as increasing scrutiny of the partnership with private sector. The case study deals with the management dilemma as to whether Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam should continue its partnership with Shell despite several protests by environmental activists; whether to end the cooperation or whether to reform the partnership. Students are asked to address this dilemma and try to find solutions and, moreover, to identify and address potential consequences of their decision. The case study allows for the demonstration of business models and the management of arts and cultural organisations and, in particular, their financial structures and challenges they have faced recently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to losses of open space, local voter referenda have become a popular and effective means to raise funding for land conservation in the US. This paper provides empirical evidence on the effects of disasters on the success of voter referenda for open-space conservation. Our results show that voters become less supportive of subsequent ballot measures if their communities recently experienced a major disaster. The preferred specification reveals that a recent major disaster is associated with an 8.4% reduction in the odds of a 'yes' vote. We find further evidence that the effect is especially strong for referenda using tax increases to fund preservation. This disaster effect, however, is temporary rather than permanent. For disaster events occurring more than 12 months prior to a referendum, we find that the effect is no longer statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Within the United Kingdom, the third sector has an important yet increasingly challenging role in providing employability support for people with complex barriers to work, as organisations face an ever‐tighter and more uncertain funding landscape. Whilst the obstacles posed by short‐term funding are raised in numerous publications from third sector professional and campaigning organisations, academic contributions on the effects of short‐term funding for the third sector remain scarce. This article presents a qualitative analysis of the impacts of short‐term programme funding on a third sector employability project in the North of England, as it navigated the post‐Brexit transition from European grants to regionally allocated shorter‐term funding under the first tranche of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with frontline employability keyworkers, the article illuminates the multiple detrimental effects on project delivery, keyworker practices and client experience brought about by a reduction in funding timeframe and associated future uncertainties. Alongside practical implications, the study offers novel insights into the emotional impacts of short‐termism on those delivering at the frontline, which we interpret via the theoretical lens of ‘moral distress’. Findings also reveal a risk that, under tighter operating timescales, third sector organisations may feel increasingly pushed towards the selective recruitment of participants who are easier to help, potentially undermining their deeply held commitment to supporting those furthest from the labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Face-to-face fundraising (F2F) emerged in the 1990s as an innovative mode of charity fundraising, whereby paid fundraisers – often employed through for-profit agencies – solicit members of the public to sign-up for monthly direct-debit payments. Despite its everyday visibility – and public critical reception – this instance of the ubiquitous intersection of humanitarianism and commodification, integral to contemporary capitalism, remains unexplored. This paper fills this gap but, in the process, draws some theoretical lessons germane to this literature and to materialist critique more generally. I argue that the peculiar dialectics of appearance operative in the political economy of F2F resists interpretation in terms of extant conceptual appreciations of other modalities of ‘commodified compassion’ and in materialist conceptual vocabularies in political economy scholarship more broadly. Far from ‘mere appearance’, F2F’s abstract form of ‘shared humanity’ is not simply an ethical veneer to be bypassed in unveiling the concrete (re)production of inequalities in humanity, as is the general tendency in materialist critique. Rather, this appearance is essential for its functioning and those concrete inequalities are written into this form, rather than existing behind/beyond it. This, I suggest, is captured effectively by a ‘dialectical materialist’ take on the Marxian theory of the commodity form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the impact of financial availability on illegal fundraising activities in China. By collecting 14,481 judgement documents from 2013 to 2019 in China Judgements Online and extracting data, we find that financial availability effectively reduces the amount of money invested, the actual loss and the number of related court cases. This effect remains robust under various robustness specifications. In addition, we find that the attention of investors can increase the negative impact of financial availability on illegal fundraising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent agenda-setting studies have increasingly replaced survey data with readily available, nonreactive data that at first glance might serve as indicators of the public agenda to the same extent: the amount of online search queries regarding an issue and the volume of donations for non-profit organizations that are collecting money for problem solving related to an issue. This raises the question of whether the results of agenda-setting studies depend on which of these indicators is used to measure the public agenda. In this study, we compare the agenda-setting effect of media coverage of migration on the public salience of this issue in Germany between 2015 and 2020 as measured by three different indicators of the public agenda on a monthly basis: survey data, Google Trends data, and fundraising data. Our analyses show significant simultaneous correlations between the media agenda and all three indicators of the public agenda, with a smaller influence of the media agenda on fundraising data than in the other two cases. However, when Granger causality is used to identify causal relationships, a positive influence of the media agenda on the public agenda is only found when the public agenda is measured with survey data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the use of social media, particularly Facebook, for public engagement purposes by nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the United Arab Emirates. It draws on an interpretation of engagement as a multidimensional process with cognitive and affective characteristics where power relations between an organization and its public should be addressed. This paper combines content analysis with social semiotics to examine the multimodal production and enactment of engagement as a relational process at the level of the verbal, visual, and paratext modes. The study reveals that the use of Facebook by NPOs is marked by a strong control over discourse and low affective involvement, where fundraising becomes the primary function of the platforms. This demonstrates that the philanthropic identity and mission of most NPOs obscure the relationship management objective of these organizations and undermine their ability to effectively engage stakeholders on social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While donor funding is important to the survival of many nonprofits, donors -unlike customers- make payments or donations to benefit 3rd parties that cannot be directly observed. This separation of payments (donations) and benefits can reduce donors' support and thus impact a nonprofit organization's survival and performance. This study offers a relationship marketing (RM) approach to solving this separation problem. Specifically, this study draws on identity salience research to explain a nonprofit's fundraising efforts. A nonprofit's fundraising offers a salient form of RM that develops a donor's identity in the nonprofit's mission and thus overcoming the separation of benefit-payment problem. However, identity salience research also argues that individuals/donors are subject to a group identification process. This process prioritizes a donor's giving in ways that affirm their identity with their social group, but not the salience affirming benefits of a nonprofits' fundraising. Hypotheses were developed to examine these identity salience arguments in the U.S. Nonprofit Religious Media (NPRM) sector. In using a Fixed Effect (FE) panel estimation, a Nonprofit Religious Media Organization (NPRMO)'s fundraising offers a RM that supports this study's identity salience explanations. A primary contribution of this study is that it advances RM research by introducing an identity process that not only explains the value-laden benefits of RM, but that this identity process introduces a group identification process that offers a more socialized view of RM research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to the dental nursing industry. Topics include Dental Defence Union's call for reform in clinical negligence costs, highlighting the unsustainable nature of current litigation expenses; the disproportionate legal costs in dental negligence claims, the impact on National Health Service resources, and proposals for fixed recoverable costs to address these issues.

IMPACT: This article presents novel analyses of the income sources of National Health Service (NHS) acute trusts in England. The results suggest that there are variations according to deprivation in the extent of private financial resources available to NHS institutions. They suggest a need to open up discussions about how best to mitigate spatial differences in the charitable and private patient income of NHS trusts, particularly if these sources of income grow in importance going forward. The article provides—for the first time—an analysis of spatial variation in the income sources of National Health Service (NHS) acute trusts in England. It shows that, compared to trusts serving less deprived communities, trusts serving more deprived communities receive a lower proportion of income from charitable sources; and that trusts serving deprived communities also receive a lower proportion of income from private patients. The study serves to provide evidence of spatial inequality in the private resources that support local public institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Representations of human trafficking in film and media have widely missed the mark by misinforming the public and funders and harming those with lived experience. This has real implications for the anti-trafficking movement, including a lack of sufficient financial support for victim services and the failure to implement long-term systemic change. To change this, this article argues that we must invest in narrative change around human trafficking, under the leadership of those with lived experience. If done well, this could potentially bring additional funding for services by reaching the wider public, and even move the needle on trafficking prevention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the one hand, during the COVID-19 pandemic, NGOs are under pressure to provide more support. On the other hand, these organisations are facing new challenges that limit their activities, for example, a lack of volunteers and the inability to continue programs, raise funds, and serve beneficiaries. Despite these challenges, some NGOs have been forced to close down, while others have successfully collected funds and developed their activity. Therefore, this article aims to research how NGOs changed their funding models to overcome fundraising problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various non-profits in Poland, Lithuania, Croatia, and the United Kingdom. The results of the content analysis showed that critical success factors were: additional projects, public funds, collaboration with the government, the use of grants, additional funding from the funder, virtual fundraising and campaigning, collaboration with other NGOs, combined resources, implementation of joint projects, and the cooperation with the funders. The logistic regression analysis results supported the hypothesis that the financial success of NGOs during the COVID-19 pandemic depended on a change in the funding model and on a shift in financing from the corporate founder. However, despite the better financial results of NGOs, non-financial results were worse in times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the impact of private equity fund managers' (GPs') ESG disclosure on fundraising. To this end, a sample of global private equity and venture capital funds that completed fundraising between 2020 and 2022 is employed. Our findings indicate that an increase in ESG disclosure by GPs is associated with an increase in fundraising. This indicates that GPs' ESG disclosure diminishes information asymmetry and has a favorable impact on fundraising. Conversely, the level of ESG disclosure among limited partners (LPs) has no significant impact on the relationship between GPs' ESG disclosure level and fundraising. The findings of this study have significant implications for private equity stakeholders, including GPs, given the current context of declining investment demand due to rising interest rates, recessionary concerns, poor performance and tighter regulations on private equity management. In this environment, ESG disclosure is becoming increasingly challenging for private equity firms to utilize as a fundraising strategy.

Considering the inconsistency in the literature on crowdinvestment motivations and the uniqueness of football club investors, the purpose of this study is to identify the motivation to invest in football clubs through equity crowdfunding. Following Churchill's scale development procedure, it is found that those who crowdinvest in football clubs are fans who highly identify with these teams. The fans' motivations include supporting the cause of the campaign, acquiring the status of a football club owner, and gaining rewards. These findings show the dominance of intrinsic motivations among crowdinvestors of European football clubs, providing evidence for compensatory activities assumed in self-determination theory, which is the theoretical framework for this research. Moreover, we devise a motivation scale that can be adopted in future research on equity crowdfunding for football clubs. For sports managers, the results offer practical recommendations for marketing communication and relationship marketing of equity crowdfunding campaigns by football clubs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Across seven studies (N  = 9,028), we provide evidence that quantity requests, wherein people consider multiple choice options of how much to donate (e.g. $5, $10, or $15), increase contributions compared to open-ended requests. Specifically, quantity requests encourage greater donations (study 1), even when respondents can passively choose not to donate (study 2) and even when the donation is directed toward a less popular cause (study 3). This increase in donations holds for quantity requests that start with both lower (e.g. $1) or higher (e.g. $10) donation amount options (study 4). Quantity requests also outperform other requests with multiple nonquantity donation options (e.g. multiple options of when to donate or to which charity branch to direct a donation; study 5). We offer evidence that quantity requests are effective because they simplify donation decisions by communicating normative donation magnitudes (studies 6 and 7). This clarified norm of donation magnitude boosts donation rates, which in turn leads to greater total donations. Our findings offer new conceptual insights into how quantity requests increase contributions as well as practical implications for charitable organizations to optimize contributions by leveraging the use of quantity requests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]