Collective philanthropy: describing and modeling the ecology of giving.

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of...

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Main Authors: William L Gottesman, Andrew James Reagan, Peter Sheridan Dodds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4077655?pdf=render