Charitable Fund-Raising - Matching Grants or Seed Money: An Application to Employee Matching Grant Schemes

In the 1980’s the issue of corporate-university linkages has received markedly increased attention from governments, corporations, and universities. From government’s perspective, the drive to enhance corporate-university linkages is derived from the belief that these linkages will contribute to economic competitiveness. One method that has been used by government to encourage this interaction is through the provision of matching grants. Using public finance theory as the conceptual basis, the paper examines the preliminary outcomes of one government’s matching grant initiative. Through a compilation of data on university research revenues on corporate contract research and a questionnaire to companies that placed the research contracts in universities, the paper shows that matching grants, in the manner provided by the BILD program, may not be an effective mechanism to promote corporate-university research linkages. The paper concludes with some suggestions for further research and discusses the conceptual and methodological hurdles that can be encountered when attempting to asses the outcomes of a matching grant program, particularly as applied to corporate-university linkages.

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Co-Financing Community-Driven Development Through Informal Taxation: Experimental Evidence from South-Central Somalia

10.19088/ictd.2021.016 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa van den Boogaard, ◽

Fabrizio Santoro

Keyword(s):

Public Goods ◽

Household Survey ◽

Community Leaders ◽

Randomised Control Trial ◽

Direct Role ◽

State Legitimacy ◽

South Central ◽

Matching Grant ◽

The Impact ◽

Matching Grants

Community contributions are often required as part of community-driven development (CDD) programmes, with payment encouraged through matching grants. However, little remains known about the impact of matching grants, or the implications of requiring community contributions in order for communities to receive development funding. This paper describes research where we partner with two non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – one international and one Somali – and undertake a randomised control trial of a CDD matching grant programme designed to incentivise informal contributions for local public goods in Gedo region in south-central Somalia. We rely on household survey data collected from 1,297 respondents in 31 treatment and 31 control communities, as well as surveys of village leaders and data on informal contributions from the mobile money platform used by community leaders to collect revenue. Two key findings emerge. First, our research shows that working with communities and incentivising informal revenue generation can be an effective way to deliver public goods and to support citizens and communities. Second, building on research exploring the potential for development interventions to spur virtuous or adverse cycles of governance, we show that development partners may work directly with community leaders and informal taxing institutions without necessarily undermining – and indeed perhaps strengthening – state legitimacy and related ongoing processes of statebuilding in the country. Indeed, despite playing no direct role in the matching grant programme, taxpayer perceptions of the legitimacy of the local government improved as a result of the programme. These findings deepen our understanding of how community contributions may be incentivised through matching grant programmes, and how they may contribute to CDD and public goods provision in a context of weak institutional capacity.

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Matching Grants and Charitable Giving: Why People Sometimes Provide a Helping Hand to Fund Environmental Goods

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review ◽

10.1017/s1068280500007322 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 324-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Koji Kotani ◽

Kent D. Messer ◽

William D. Schulze

Keyword(s):

Charitable Giving ◽

Social Preference ◽

Dominant Strategy ◽

Environmental Conservation ◽

Environmental Goods ◽

Benefit Cost Analysis ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Matching Grant ◽

Benefit Cost ◽

Matching Grants

Matching grants are a prevalent mechanism for funding environmental, conservation, and natural resource projects. However, economists have largely been silent regarding the potential benefits of these mechanisms at increasing voluntary contributions. To examine the behavioral responses to different match levels, this research uses controlled laboratory experiments with generically framed instructions and introduces a general-form matching-grant mechanism, referred to as the proportional contribution mechanism (PCM). Results show that contributions are positively correlated with both the match and the induced value of the public good even when a dominant strategy is free-riding. An implication of this partial demand revelation result is that manifestations of this type of “helping hand” social preference should be counted in benefit-cost analysis.

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Seed money for future food

Nature ◽

10.1038/news020603-20 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Clarke

Keyword(s):

Seed Money

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Fund-raising is No Longer a "Dirty" Word

Eye on Psi Chi Magazine ◽

10.24839/1092-0803.eye14.2.34 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 34-35

Author(s):

Jessica Obermier ◽

Brittany Schmidt ◽

Krystine Hoefer ◽

Abbie Harris ◽

Krista Fritson

Keyword(s):

Fund Raising

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Considerations on national interests in financial flows of global social and economic entities

Finance and Credit ◽

10.24891/fc.26.5.1017 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (5) ◽

pp. 1017-1038

Author(s):

V.V. Smirnov

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Systems Approach ◽

National Development ◽

World Order ◽

Fund Raising ◽

Skewed Distribution ◽

Managerial Decision ◽

National Interests ◽

Average Growth ◽

Financial Flows

Subject. The article investigates financial flows. Objectives. The study is to determine directions of financial flows in global social and economic entities. Methods. I rely upon the systems approach and methods of descriptive statistics. Results. The article illustrates the importance of national interests in financial flows of global social and economic entities. I emphasize that finance is a factor determining the importance of national interests. Finance mirrors the national development and opportunities of a social and economic entity to protect its sovereignty. Sustainable development seems to be the ground for solving any issues of national interests as part of financial flows of social and economic entities. This may be feasible through fund raising. I determined directions of financial flows streaming to socialist and capitalist social and economic entities. In Russia capitalist social and economic entities emerge due to a positively-skewed distribution of values around the average growth rate of direct investment in non-financial assets and portfolio investment, and a negatively-skewed distribution, i.e. military spending, inflation, fiscal revenue and general reserves net of gold. The article highlights that Russia and China have similar economic views on poverty and equality. Conclusions and Relevance. As global economic ties transform and controversies concerning the world order escalate, capitalist economies disregard the specifics of the social and economic paradigm and national interests of other countries. Such controversies can be eliminated if multiple economic interests are simplified. Sustainable development and respective goals seem to offer a solution to national interests as part of financial flows of social and economic entities. The findings unveil opportunities for exercising national interests in global social and economic entities by regulating a source of financial flows, generating new competencies for managerial decision-making on sustainable development goals.

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