Welcome to the recruitment page for our study on choice in philanthropy and charitable giving. Our objective is to explore the drivers of philanthropic and charitable giving behaviour and assess whether contemporary approaches used by fundraisers and development teams can be made more effective. Our investigation is centred on individual donors who are presented with several options when they express an interest in philanthropic giving.
We are interested in how the choices – on how and where funding can be used – presented by development/fundraising teams to potential donors, have effects on giving behaviour. By using an online experimental methodology our findings will inform the work of fundraising and development teams to improve their engagement with donors and philanthropists, and make fundraising more efficient.
If you are someone who has pertinent knowledge and experience with philanthropy and charity, we would like to invite you to participate in our study by registering your interest. This step does not commit you to participate in any particular experiment, but you will then receive more information about the study in due course, and perhaps be asked if you would like to participate.
If you are recruited as a subject participant we will ask you for approximately 45-60 minutes of your time. The experiment is comprised of two parts. In the first part you will be provided with information about different charities. Following this, in the second part, you will have the option to make a donation to one or more charitable causes of your choice. This donation activity is completely voluntary and you will have the option to enter ‘zero’ as your donation amount. You are under no obligation to make a donation.
This research is being conducted by Dr Juvaria Jafri, a researcher at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) in collaboration with Dr Cahal Moran at the London School of Economics, and Atiyeh Yeganloo at the University of Warwick.
The research has been organised in partnership with the Charities Aid Foundation but this should not be construed as an endorsement by the University of Cambridge of this, or any other external organisation.
The research team will be supported by the Cambridge Experimental and Behavioural Economics Laboratory (CEBEG). The CEBEG is an interdisciplinary research group which brings together researchers and PhD students who are interested in experiments and in behavioural economics. CEBEG aims to provide a platform for the development of ideas, dissemination, and publication of experimental research and to facilitate the running of laboratory experiments within the University of Cambridge.
Participant privacy notice
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Should you no longer wish to participate, all personally identifiable information held about you will be immediately deleted from our database.
In addition, we will contact you five years after you submit your data to see whether you would like to remain on the platform. If you confirm a wish to leave, or we do not manage to contact you, your personal information will be deleted to protect your privacy.
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