BACKGROUND Published articles have described a lack of willingness to allow preventative measures, as well as other types of modern therapies, as an obstacle to providing medical care for Amish and Mennonite populations. METHODS We present data regarding the 12 Amish and Mennonite patients at the SUNY Upstate Medical University Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Center and three representative case re...

An understanding of the workings, management and implications of sponsorship relationships, are becoming increasingly important to all arts administrators, in times of dwindling government assistance, and keener competition for audiences. Sponsorship research suffers from a lack of a suitable theoretical underpinning to assist operators in its understanding. This paper examines sponsorship in t...

Fundraising within the context of financial firms is an essential part of the functionality of any investment vehicle. While traditional real estate is one of the oldest forms of investing, the industry has since undergone a revolution, in which the every-day investor is attaining access to the arena in the form of crowdfunding. While many of these platforms highlight key structural advantages ...

Direct­mail fundraisers commonly provide a set of suggested donation amounts to potential donors, in addition to the option of writing in an amount. Yet little systematic evidence exists about the causal effects of suggested donation amounts on giving behavior. To this end, we conducted a field experiment on a direct­mail solicitation to nearly 15,000 members of three public broadcasting statio...

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Public policy promoting the creative economy has two serious flaws: one, a misperception of culture and creativity as a product of individual genius rather than collective activity; and, two, a willingness to tolerate social dislocation in exchange for urban vitality or competitive advantage. This brief recaps current culture and revitalization research and policy and proposes a new model—a nei...

BACKGROUND Māori and Pacific Island people have significantly higher smoking rates compared to the rest of the New Zealand population. The main aim of this paper is to describe how knowledge of Indigenous people's practices and principles can be combined with proven effective smoking cessation support into a cessation intervention appropriate for Indigenous people. METHODS/DESIGN A literature...

OBJECTIVE To assess change in the 4-year prevalence (2006-2009) of the use of food in school fundraising and as rewards and incentives for students, following implementation of federal legislation in the USA in 2006. DESIGN Serial cross-sectional design using trend analysis to assess school-level data collected over four consecutive years from 2006/2007 to 2009/2010. SETTING Minneapolis/St....

Charities frequently rely on high-priced professional solicitors but donors seem unaware. To understand this, we propose an agency-based theory of fundraising. We show that trading off its incentive cost, the charity optimally hires a sufficiently "efficient" solicitor and offers him a high percentage of the donations collected, implying a high price of giving. Thus, if, as required by law, don...

Two candidates compete for elective office. Each candidate has information she would like to reveal to the voters, but this requires costly advertising. The candidates can solicit contributions from interest groups to finance such advertising. These contributions are secured by promises to perform favors for the contributors, should the candidate win the election. Voters understand this and ele...