A Comparative Analysis of Educational Donors in the Netherlands

Using data from 1,373 households participating in the 2005 Giving in the Netherlands Panel Survey, this paper examines the characteristics of educational donors in comparison with other types of charitable donors and with nondonors. Charitable giving is quite common in the Netherlands, but there is...

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Published in:International journal of educational advancement 2008-06, Vol.8 (2), p.71-78
Main Authors: James, Russell N, Wiepking, Pamala
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alumni
Children
Colleges & universities
Comparative Analysis
Consumer Economics
Cross Cultural Studies
Donations
Donors
Education
Elementary Education
Elementary School Students
Elementary schools
Expenditures
Extracurricular Activities
Foreign Countries
Fund Raising
Government (Administrative Body)
Graduate Students
Graduate Study
Higher Education
Marital Status
Marketing
Netherlands
Private Colleges
Private Financial Support
Protestants
Public Opinion
Research methodology
School Activities
School Funds
Studies
Surveys
Universities
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Summary:Using data from 1,373 households participating in the 2005 Giving in the Netherlands Panel Survey, this paper examines the characteristics of educational donors in comparison with other types of charitable donors and with nondonors. Charitable giving is quite common in the Netherlands, but there is no established higher education advancement profession. Similar to US findings, Dutch educational donors were among the most generous, giving more than other donors did to religion and other noneducational charities. Educational gifts were, however, much smaller in the Netherlands. Probit and Tobit analyses revealed the dominant importance of the presence of children in the home in predicting educational charitable giving. Dutch educational giving may be more focused on small gifts supporting extra-curricular primary school activities, rather than large gifts to higher education. The absence of a strong positive effect of graduate education, such as was found in previous US research on educational giving, may result from a difference in philanthropic cultures regarding higher education.
ISSN:1744-6503
1744-6511
1744-6511
DOI:10.1057/ijea.2008.9