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"By Their Fruits, Shall We Know Them?: Comparing Philosophy of Giving to Actual Behavior."
Laura M. Leming and John J. Havens. Presented at the 1998 annual meeting of
the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action,
Seattle, Nov. 5-7, 1998.
This paper is an extension of the analysis of Boston
College Social Welfare Research Institute "Boston Area Diary Study"
(BADS) wherein participants were interviewed weekly for a year about their charitable
giving and volunteering. The "BADS" study provides a unique opportunity
to compare respondents' answers to four open-ended questions about their philosophy
of giving with their actual contributions of time and money. This paper reports
the qualitative analysis of this comparison.
"Embarking on a Republic of Benevolence: New Survey Findings on Charitable Giving."
Paul G. Schervish and John J. Havens. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
27, no. 2 (June 1998): 237-242.
In this article, the authors provide a tentative
answer to a vexing statistical question about the level of charitable giving
in the United States: Why does the Independent Sector's (IS) "Survey of
Giving and Volunteering" consistently estimate personal contributions to
nonprofit organizations to be 65% to 75% lower than corresponding estimates
reported by the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel (AAFRC)?
"The High Giving Poor: Who are the Low Income People Who Make High Contributions?"
Anthony J. Savoie and John J. Havens. Presented at the 1998 annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, Seattle, Nov. 5-7, 1998.
Based on empirical
analysis, this paper describes the group of relatively low income individuals and families who contribute large proportions of their income to charitable causes, a group we call "the high giving
poor." The paper focuses primarily on families and individuals with incomes of $20,000 or less who contribute at least 5 percent of their income to charitable organizations as reported in the Survey
of Consumer Finances for 1989, 1992, and 1995.
"Money and Magnanimity: New Findings on the Distribution of Income, Wealth, and Philanthropy."
Paul G. Schervish and John J. Havens. Nonprofit Management & Leadership 8, no. 4 (Summer 1998): 421-434.
In this paper we address several additional empirical questions about variation in
the level of charitable giving across and within categories of income. We interpret the findings to mean that the roots of generosity reside in an array of social-psychological factors that are more
profound than the fact that people are rich or poor.
"Philanthropy."
Paul G. Schervish. Vol. 1 of Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, edited
by Robert Wuthnow. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1998. 600-603.
First, I define philanthropy as a social relation and distinguish it from commercial
and political relations. Second, I discuss the virtue of care and the sentiment
of identification as fundamental principles of philanthropy. Third, I argue
that philanthropy is better understood as a dialectical unity of love, of self,
and love of neighbor rather than as a dualistic opposition between selflessness
and selfishness.
Paul G. Schervish and John J. Havens. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 27, no. 4 (Dec. 1998): 530-532.
We are pleased that Virginia Hodgkinson and Murray Weitzman have responded to our article, "Embarking on a Republic of Benevolence? New Survey Findings on Charitable Giving." Temperate interchange among scholars on the pages of this journal is something we hope will occur more frequently. In response to Hodgkinson and Weitzman, we review what we were trying to say and not say in our article and reply to their three major criticisms.
"The State of Estates: Current Trends and New Thinking on the Meaning, Measurement, and Allocation of Financial Resources in the Light of Death and Taxes."
Paul G. Schervish, John J. Havens, Thomas B. Murphy, and Scott C. Fithian. Presented
at the 1998 annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations
and Voluntary Action, Seattle, Nov. 5-7, 1998.
This panel discusses a shift
in the terrain of study on the relationship between financial status and charitable
giving. In writing this paper, the authors are pursuing a unique collaborative
approach. The authors are, respectively, a sociologist, a specialist in values-based
estate planning, an economist, and a foundation trustee who is an actuary and
entrepreneur.
"Why Do People Give?"
Paul G. Schervish and John J. Havens. The Not-For-Profit CEO Monthly Newsletter 5, no. 7 (May 1998): 1-3. [Based on "Social Participation and Charitable Giving: A Multivariate Analysis." Paul
G. Schervish and John. J. Havens. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 8, no. 3 (1997): 235-260.]
When we review our findings from a broad theoretical
standpoint, it appears that for the population as a whole, participation, especially participation that already embodies a commitment to philanthropy, or to a philanthropic organization, is directly
related to charitable giving. Moreover, within community of participation, participation in religious organizations is especially important. The major implication of the research is that the level of
charitable giving, and perhaps of volunteering, depends less than previously thought on the differences in people's personal generosity.
"Social Participation and Charitable Giving Revisited:
Replication of a Multivariate Analysis."
Paul G. Schervish, Platon E. Coutsoukis, and John J. Havens. October
20, 1998.
Two years ago, we empirically examined empirically a multiple-cluster, multivariate
theory of philanthropy developed by the first author (Schervish and Havens,
1996). We based this analysis on the 1992 national Survey of Giving and Volunteering
(SGV) conducted by the Gallup Organization for the Independent Sector. In the
present paper, we replicate our empirical analysis using two newer data sets:
the 1996 national General Social Survey (GSS) conducted by the National Opinion
Research Center and the 1994-95 national Harvard Survey of Health and Life Quality
(HSHLQ) conducted by DataStat for the MacArthur Foundation. These additional
surveys allow us to investigate whether we can obtain broad support for our
initial findings, despite the differences in focus and the specific questions
asked, among all the surveys.
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