The Children’s HIV Association (CHIVA) is a registered charity working across the UK and Ireland to improve care for HIV-positive children and their families. CHIVA has the distinct function of not only being a professionals’ organisation but also in supporting charity work run through CHIVA projects. CHIVA provides information, guidance and support for professionals, parents and young people l...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that involving beneficiaries in charity decision-making ensures better governance processes. This paper provides the first experimental test of effects beneficiaries’ participation decision how to spend a charity's funds. We consider four different mechanisms for choosing funds destination: delegating group leader, deciding through public discussion, voting (one-head...

Three studies examined the relationship between social dominance orientation (SDO), the experience of moral elevation, and Whites' donations to charitable organizations. Study 1 used video clips depicting acts of moral excellence to elicit a state of moral elevation (a distinctive feeling of warmth and expansion, which is accompanied by admiration, affection, and even love for people whose exem...