Donors are much more likely to give if they believe their money will not be spent on organizational overhead costs, and they are even more likely to donate if a matching gift is involved, according to two experiments, Science reports.
Uri Gneezy, an economist at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, recently ran experiments examining how individuals responded to various types of donation information. In one experiment, when donors were told that overhead was covered by another donor and all their money would go directly to the cause, they were 80 percent more likely to give. When overhead was already covered and a matching contribution was involved, they were 94 percent more likely to give.
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