Tag: Nonprofits
Spotting the political calculus behind some acts of corporate charity
Raymond Fisman, Boston University
Over the past few years, I have teamed up with fellow economists Marianne Bertrande, Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi to look...
What is March Madness – and the nonprofit that manages the...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The annual college basketball spectacle known as March Madness has arrived.
Millions of people will tune in to...
How to get more Americans to volunteer
Rebecca Nesbit, University of Georgia and Robert Christensen, Brigham Young University
Alexis de Tocqueville, the 19th-century Frenchman fascinated by U.S. life, praised what he saw...
Most panhandling laws are unconstitutional since there’s no freedom from speech
Joseph W. Mead, Cleveland State University
Thousands of U.S. cities restrict panhandling in some way. These ordinances limit face-to-face soliciting, including interactions that occur on...
When do-good nonprofits are bad at dealing with #MeToo moments
Paul Battaglio, University of Texas at Dallas; Doug Goodman, University of Texas at Dallas, and Meghna Sabharwal, University of Texas at Dallas
Scandals rocking the...
When charities let telemarketers gouge donors
Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine recently called Ohio Cops for Kids a “purported charity” when he sued the group...
Some new nonprofits take off, others flop – and nobody knows...
Fredrik O. Andersson, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Wayne Gretzky’s observation that you will always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take holds true...
Learning by giving: How today’s students can become tomorrow’s philanthropists
Jodi Benenson, University of Nebraska Omaha; David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and Lindsey McDougle, Rutgers University Newark
If someone asked...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
