We explore what motivates the philanthropic activity of extremely wealthy individuals and families. We focus on a recent large-scale philanthropic initiative by billionaires, the Giving Pledge, a commitment to donating half or more of one's wealth. We perform two pieces of analysis: first, we investigate what personal characteristics of billionaires are associated with becoming a pledger. Second, we undertake a textual analysis of the pledgers' letters describing their philanthropic outlook and classify their motivation into ten categories. We then correlate these motivational categories with various personal characteristics of the pledgers. The main insights obtained from our analysis is that pledgers are more likely to be self-made billio...
Entrepreneurs add value to society above and beyond the creation of new products and services, throu...
Offers an overview of reasons for engaging in philanthropy with an eye to helping donors become more...
In philanthropic research, much attention has been given to the impact of the actual costs of giving...
This paper studies conditions influencing the generosity of wealthy people. We conduct incentivized ...
UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are broad, ambitious and inspiring. While most of the inve...
This paper studies conditions influencing the generosity of wealthy people. We conduct incentivized ...
Research indicates that even though more than $300 billion was contributed to American philanthropic...
Hundreds of billions of dollars are donated to charity by individuals each year. Despite this, relat...
Largely overlooked when it comes to nonprofit organizations and their influence in society are the p...
This new report is part of Philanthropy UK's efforts to promote a culture of giving in Britain. It a...
Australian charities have experienced intense competition in recent times, with greater numbers of c...
Charitable giving is of great value to society. In particular, wealthy individuals and their familie...
The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the number of regular or so-called committed giving schem...
The pinnacle of engagement for a nonprofit is a donation, yet as donations decline and competition i...
Background: The foremost psychological theory for explaining and predicting peoples planned behaviou...
Entrepreneurs add value to society above and beyond the creation of new products and services, throu...
Offers an overview of reasons for engaging in philanthropy with an eye to helping donors become more...
In philanthropic research, much attention has been given to the impact of the actual costs of giving...
This paper studies conditions influencing the generosity of wealthy people. We conduct incentivized ...
UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are broad, ambitious and inspiring. While most of the inve...
This paper studies conditions influencing the generosity of wealthy people. We conduct incentivized ...
Research indicates that even though more than $300 billion was contributed to American philanthropic...
Hundreds of billions of dollars are donated to charity by individuals each year. Despite this, relat...
Largely overlooked when it comes to nonprofit organizations and their influence in society are the p...
This new report is part of Philanthropy UK's efforts to promote a culture of giving in Britain. It a...
Australian charities have experienced intense competition in recent times, with greater numbers of c...
Charitable giving is of great value to society. In particular, wealthy individuals and their familie...
The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the number of regular or so-called committed giving schem...
The pinnacle of engagement for a nonprofit is a donation, yet as donations decline and competition i...
Background: The foremost psychological theory for explaining and predicting peoples planned behaviou...
Entrepreneurs add value to society above and beyond the creation of new products and services, throu...
Offers an overview of reasons for engaging in philanthropy with an eye to helping donors become more...
In philanthropic research, much attention has been given to the impact of the actual costs of giving...