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Papers by Xiaoyun Wang
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2018
Comparing two generations at the same point in their life cycles, four decades apart, indicates t... more Comparing two generations at the same point in their life cycles, four decades apart, indicates that average giving to charitable organizations (not including congregations) by Baby Boom families has remained roughly in line with the level of giving done by the Greatest and Silent generations, but that average giving by GenX and Millennial families is lower. All three generations exhibit the confluence of two divergent trends: lower percentages who give large amounts, but among families who do give large amounts, levels of giving compared with donors in previous generations are similar if not higher. The two divergent trends also characterize giving to religious congregations. Although “dollars per donor holding steady or up” describes Millennial, GenX, and Baby Boom families compared with the Greatest and Silent generations, when the former three generations are compared with each other, there are some indications that average giving among donors is starting to slip.
Public Performance&Management Review, 2023
Over the past 50 years, philanthropic institutions and governments have invested millions of doll... more Over the past 50 years, philanthropic institutions and governments
have invested millions of dollars to support the growth
of community intermediary organizations (CIOs) for developing
vibrant civic lives. CIOs are community-based nonprofit
organizations that do not directly deliver services but support
other local nonprofit organizations. The key issue for these
investments is how to generate more local giving for CIOs to
reduce their dependence on external funders. It is believed
that CIOs established in wealthy communities are more likely
to attract local giving. However, an investigation into community
foundations—a type of CIOs—seeded by a funder shows
that foundations in the wealthiest communities did not
receive much local giving. Rapid population growth in wealthy
communities disrupted conventional, close-knit social relations
and undermined the efficacy of foundations’ traditional fundraising
model that relied on personal relationship-building,
local brokers, and word-of-mouth referrals to attract giving.
Community foundations suffered from low visibility and lost
competitive advantages over commercial and national competitors.
It suggests that funders should pay more attention to
increasing volatility in communities and help CIOs transform
their fundraising model.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2020
Almost all of the scientific literature on charitable giving is implicitly based on a static para... more Almost all of the scientific literature on charitable giving is implicitly based on a static paradigm which posits there are non-donors who never give and donors who habitually give year-in/year-out to a specific charitable purpose. This article presents evidence that charitable giving is not static, but dynamic: Few Americans never give, and among Americans that donate the majority are switchers—giving in some years but not others or switching from one charitable purpose to another. The implications are that a static perspective is misleading, and research questions should place more emphasis on the time dimension of charitable giving.
A matching grant is an important tool to leverage charitable giving. Most research on the effects... more A matching grant is an important tool to leverage charitable giving. Most research on the effects of matching grants on donations has applied experimental methods to examine how and to what degree these grants affect donors' giving behaviors. Through a 20-year mixedmethod longitudinal study of community foundations in Indiana, USA, this study has found that matching grants not only have large and significant impacts on giving but also influence charities' fundraising efforts. The results demonstrate that although matching grants could stimulate a temporal increase in fundraising expenses, they have a significant income effect and might discourage fundraising in the long term. Additionally, repeated provisions of matching grants induce an anticipating effect such that organizations delay fundraising activities for a higher future return.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2018
Comparing two generations at the same point in their life cycles, four decades apart, indicates t... more Comparing two generations at the same point in their life cycles, four decades apart, indicates that average giving to charitable organizations (not including congregations) by Baby Boom families has remained roughly in line with the level of giving done by the Greatest and Silent generations, but that average giving by GenX and Millennial families is lower. All three generations exhibit the confluence of two divergent trends: lower percentages who give large amounts, but among families who do give large amounts, levels of giving compared with donors in previous generations are similar if not higher. The two divergent trends also characterize giving to religious congregations. Although “dollars per donor holding steady or up” describes Millennial, GenX, and Baby Boom families compared with the Greatest and Silent generations, when the former three generations are compared with each other, there are some indications that average giving among donors is starting to slip.
Public Performance&Management Review, 2023
Over the past 50 years, philanthropic institutions and governments have invested millions of doll... more Over the past 50 years, philanthropic institutions and governments
have invested millions of dollars to support the growth
of community intermediary organizations (CIOs) for developing
vibrant civic lives. CIOs are community-based nonprofit
organizations that do not directly deliver services but support
other local nonprofit organizations. The key issue for these
investments is how to generate more local giving for CIOs to
reduce their dependence on external funders. It is believed
that CIOs established in wealthy communities are more likely
to attract local giving. However, an investigation into community
foundations—a type of CIOs—seeded by a funder shows
that foundations in the wealthiest communities did not
receive much local giving. Rapid population growth in wealthy
communities disrupted conventional, close-knit social relations
and undermined the efficacy of foundations’ traditional fundraising
model that relied on personal relationship-building,
local brokers, and word-of-mouth referrals to attract giving.
Community foundations suffered from low visibility and lost
competitive advantages over commercial and national competitors.
It suggests that funders should pay more attention to
increasing volatility in communities and help CIOs transform
their fundraising model.
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2020
Almost all of the scientific literature on charitable giving is implicitly based on a static para... more Almost all of the scientific literature on charitable giving is implicitly based on a static paradigm which posits there are non-donors who never give and donors who habitually give year-in/year-out to a specific charitable purpose. This article presents evidence that charitable giving is not static, but dynamic: Few Americans never give, and among Americans that donate the majority are switchers—giving in some years but not others or switching from one charitable purpose to another. The implications are that a static perspective is misleading, and research questions should place more emphasis on the time dimension of charitable giving.
A matching grant is an important tool to leverage charitable giving. Most research on the effects... more A matching grant is an important tool to leverage charitable giving. Most research on the effects of matching grants on donations has applied experimental methods to examine how and to what degree these grants affect donors' giving behaviors. Through a 20-year mixedmethod longitudinal study of community foundations in Indiana, USA, this study has found that matching grants not only have large and significant impacts on giving but also influence charities' fundraising efforts. The results demonstrate that although matching grants could stimulate a temporal increase in fundraising expenses, they have a significant income effect and might discourage fundraising in the long term. Additionally, repeated provisions of matching grants induce an anticipating effect such that organizations delay fundraising activities for a higher future return.