Private Donations, Government Grants, Commercial Activities, and Fundraising: Cointegration and Causality for NGOs in International Development Cooperation

Dierk Herzer and Peter Nunnenkamp

World Development, 2013, vol. 46, issue C, 234-251

Abstract: NGOs could help scale up foreign aid efforts by mobilizing private donations. However, fundraising activities do not necessarily result in higher donations, and substitution effects between different sources of revenue may diminish the overall pool of NGOs’ resources. This paper examines the long-run determinants of private donations to US-based NGOs engaged in international development cooperation using panel cointegration techniques. According to our results, a marginal dollar spent on fundraising yields almost five dollars in new donations in the long-run. Government grants crowd in private donations in the long-run, whereas commercial revenues crowd out donations in the long-run.

Keywords: nongovernmental organizations; development cooperation; private donations; panel cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.02.010

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