Doctoral Dissertation Research: Between Giving and Getting: Donor Choice and the Field of Workplace Charity

PI将在三个城市研究工作场所的慈善捐赠，华盛顿，芝加哥和旧金山弗朗西斯科。 此外，他们还将调查美国其他几个城市进行比较。 过去25年（1975 - 2000年）的变化将被记录下来，包括捐赠是否“指定”给特定的接受者，以及慈善机构的收藏者是公共还是私人。 调查人员将首先在三个重点城市中的每个城市采访大约20名受访者。 从这些访谈中，他们希望得出一些结论，了解这三个城市不同的慈善模式的原因，以及过去四分之一世纪以来捐赠方式发生的变化。 研究的第二部分将是对另外100个城市的居民进行邮件调查，以检查从访谈中得出的因果推断的准确性。 本研究的结果对基金募集具有明显的实践意义，同时也揭示了自愿加入的过程和理性选择的行为模式。

PI's will study workplace charitable giving in three cities, Washington DC, Chicago, and San Francisco. In addition, they will survey several other cities across the U.S. for comparison. Changes over the past 25 years (1975 - 2000) will be documented, in terms of whether the giving is "designated" to particular recipients, and whether the collector of the charity is public or private. Investigators will first interview about 20 respondents in each of the three focal cities. From those interviews, they hope to reach some conclusions about reasons for different charitable patterns in the three cities, and for changes taking place in kinds of giving over the past 1/4 century. The second part of the study will be a mail survey of residents in about 100 additional cities, to check on the accuracy of the causal inferences drawn from the interviews. While the results of this research have obvious practical implications for fund raising, they also shed light on processes of voluntary affiliation and rational choice models of behavior.