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Working Paper
Does government spending really crowd out charitable contributions? new time series evidence
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. We find that the short-run and long-run government spending and charitable giving relationships are quite different - the long run relationship appears to be largely spurious, and estimates of the short-run relationship provide only weak evidence of crowding out. We also find that system estimation can improve upon the efficiency of single equation models used in previous works. Our results support the prestige ...
Journal Article
When high finance meets age-old problems
Preventing problems rather than trying to fix them afterward makes sense, yet even when prevention has been shown to work and save money, it often doesn't get supported or funded. That is why people are getting excited about an innovative approach to reshaping how government and nonprofits work together to deliver better social outcomes.
Conference Paper
Creating new rural development strategies : the role of nonprofits
Journal Article
The leader of the nonprofit pack
Journal Article
Moving beyond mission: effectively funding the nonprofit organization
Nonprofits are struggling to meet increased demand for services at the same time that their sources of funding have declined. The need to rethink nonprofit capital structure is greater than ever.
Journal Article
The community investment enterprise : uniting the for-profit and nonprofit worlds
A new kind of partnership is benefiting both nonprofits and for-profits by tapping the scale of investment and depth of data available in the for-profit world and applying 50 percent of returns to underserved communities.
Journal Article
Delaware Financial Education Program Enlists State Agencies, Nonprofits, and Businesses
Stand by Me (SBM), a four-year-old program created to educate Delaware residents about personal finance and motivate them to achieve financial goals, is currently being implemented by four state agencies, seven nonprofits, and about 50 businesses. The program, which is a joint initiative of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services and the United Way of Delaware, has the support of Delaware Governor Jack Markell ? a longtime proponent of financial education.
Journal Article
The economy’s middle child
Though a major part of the economy, the nonprofit sector is poorly understood and maybe a tad underappreciated.
Journal Article
What factors are associated with changes in nonprofit receipts?