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

Pi‘s将研究华盛顿特区、芝加哥和旧金山三个城市的工作场所慈善捐赠。此外，他们还将对美国其他几个城市进行调查，以进行比较。过去25年(1975-2000年)的变化将被记录下来，具体是根据捐赠是否被指定给特定的接受者，以及慈善机构的收集者是公共还是私人。调查人员将首先在三个重点城市中每个城市采访约20名受访者。从这些采访中，他们希望得出一些结论，说明这三个城市慈善模式不同的原因，以及过去四分之一个世纪以来捐赠方式发生的变化。这项研究的第二部分将对另外100个城市的居民进行邮寄调查，以检查从采访中得出的因果推断的准确性。本研究的结果虽然对募捐具有明显的现实意义，但也揭示了自愿加入的过程和行为的理性选择模式。

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.