This project developed a resource development plan for the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. It employs research in organizational communication and applies the theory of organizational identification to the relationship / donor aspect of the program. It also covers research in the field of organizational identification and its relevance to college alumni.

This project seeks to develop a marketing and advertising campaign for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The proposed California campaign is designed to reach an underserved target market in the state of California and to increase donations to the UNCF by one million dollars a year.

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This philanthropic studies thesis aims to “increase the understanding of philanthropy, improve its practice, and enhance philanthropic participation” (Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University Overview) by studying the effects of social information, social norms and social identity on giving. It connects philanthropic studies research with theoretical developments in motivations for giving in economics, nonprofit management, nonprofit marketing, consumer behavior, and social psychology. It utilizes personal observations as well as quantitative methods including experiments and surveys on multiple samples including donors, undergraduate students and samples of the U.S. population. It generates actionable and efficacious knowledge to improve the practice of philanthropy. It contributes to the formation and growth of the young field called philanthropic studies - in theory, in methodology and in practice. This thesis includes five chapters. Chapter I will explain how the research question, philosophy and methodology are selected. This discussion will be for the entire thesis. Specific research questions, hypotheses, research designs, findings and implications will be explained in the subsequent chapters. Chapter II demonstrates the immediate and long-term effects of social information on donations and its boundary conditions in existing nonprofit donors in two field experiments. Chapter III shows that the psychological mechanism through which social information influences subsequent giving is perceived descriptive social norms in one field survey of donors and one laboratory experiment on undergraduate students. Chapter IV investigates how social identity congruency moderates the effect of social information on donations. It reports three field experiments on donors and samples of the general U.S. population and two laboratory experiments on undergraduate students. It shows that donors give more money to a public radio station if told that a previous donor with a similar identity also made a large contribution. This effect is more likely to occur when donors have high collective identity esteem and when attention is focused on others. Each chapter provides original fundraising techniques developed from these studies. Chapter V concludes with a discussion of the theoretical, methodological and practical contributions of this thesis and suggests directions for future research in philanthropic studies, and philanthropic psychology in particular.

The purpose of this research was to explore the life of single-mothers raising boys. The focus of this research was to provide information of life experiences for women who raised sons by themselves. The study also showed effects of divorce on single-mothers, pointed out experiences specific to raising boys, and looked at the issue of support. The study involved interviewing divorced single-mothers with standard, open-ended questions about raising boys. The questions discussed such issues as their relationships with their sons, and what types of support, if any, they had while they raised their sons. Participants included single-mothers who had not remarried, who were college graduates and whose language of communication was English. The interviews were then recorded and transcribed. The findings indicate that support to the mother does matter. The majority of the mothers interviewed had support for themselves and for their child. In most of the cases where support was offered, the primary figure was another female. In two-thirds of the cases, the other adult support figure was the grandmother. In one other case, it was the mother's daughter. Much of the literature states that outcomes on the lives of boys raised by single divorced mothers should be heavily impacted by problems in their lives (Amato & Keith, 1991). The 6 boys of the mothers interviewed here were not. While 4 of the mothers also had girls, certain issues were specific to raising boys. While 3 of the boys were young, 3 were over the age of 18 and their lives had not followed the prevailing research. This study indicated that for this particular group of single-mothers, support from others, determination and hard work on the part of the mothers, have made a difference in the lives of their sons. By providing support to the mother, support was made available to the son.

Master of Science / Department of Family Studies and Human Services / Melinda Markham / The number of grandparents who are taking over the responsibility of raising their grandchildren is increasing over time. Despite society’s reliance on them, society is failing to meet the needs of these families. Grandparents consistently lack the necessary resources that could reduce and minimize their stress in what is usually an unexpected family situation. Family Life Education has failed to meet the needs of grandfamilies. Using Family Stress Theory as a theoretical framework, this study asked the question How can Family Life Education be used as a resource for grandparents raising grandchildren to avoid crisis? Focus groups and individual interviews were used to gather qualitative data from grandparents who are currently raising their grandchildren near a midwestern university. Findings suggest grandparents raising grandchildren could benefit from education regarding finding resources and answers to questions as they navigate the many systems they are involved with, communicating and guiding their grandchildren, balancing and maintaining the shifting family dynamics and changing family relationships, information regarding the growth and development of children across the lifespan, and education regarding content that is unique to their family situation. However there are multiple barriers that participants identified toward the utilization of FLE. Ultimately, there is a lack of collaboration among services for grandparents raising grandchildren and they lack support that could potentially come from support groups. Impact and implications for practice, research and policy were discussed. Strengths and limitations of the study were also presented.

<p>This study will focus on the fund raising market and what characteristics that can be found in marketing in this market. The donations to fund raising organizations has increased lately and therefore we found it interesting to study how their marketing has developed over time and what risks that can be found. When talking about marketing in fund raising organizations it’s difficult to not include the donors. Therefore have we also studied what value creates for the donors and how the organizations work to gain their trust. We have used a qualitative approach based on six interviews. The respondents have been chosen after their expertise in the subject. Because of the qualitative approach used in this essay, it’s difficult to give a complete picture regarding the last two chapters, analysis and conclusions. Therefore, we recommend these two chapters for further reading. Fund raising organization, marketing, market communication, value creation, brand and positioning.</p>

In this thesis, the three hypotheses on the nature of early L2 acquisition (the Full Transfer/Full Access view of Schwartz and Sprouse (e.g., 1996), the Minimal Trees view of Vainikka and Young-Scholten (e.g., 1996), and the Valueless Features view of Eubank (e.g., 1996)), are discussed. Analysis of the early French production by two native speakers of Moroccan Arabic is done to determine if the L1 grammar is transferred onto the L2 grammar. In particular, the phenomena of verb-raising (as determined by the verb's position vis-a-vis negation) and finiteness are examined. The results of this study indicate that the relevant structures of Moroccan Arabic do not transfer onto the emerging French grammar.

The problem addressed in this study is the administrative process and criteria used by nonprofit visual arts organizations in the State of Texas in acquiring government and private funding. The purposes of the study were to examine the organization and administrative process of the nonprofit visual arts organization, to determine the criteria utilized by government and private funding sources for distribution of funds to nonprofit visual arts organizations, and to examine the process used by nonprofit visual arts organizations when acquiring funds from government and private sources. The data were obtained by means of a descriptive survey questionnaire which was mailed to 336 selected nonprofit visual arts organizations in the State of Texas. These organizations represent the following six areas of visual art: foundations, galleries, museums, associations, photography, and schools. From these areas the population was further refined to include only museums and associations, which represent the extreme diversity of administrative processes used. The resulting subpopulation was comprised of forty-six organizations which had filed for grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts within the past three years. Thirty research questions were answered from the results of the questionnaire. Research questions one, and three through thirty were analyzed and presented in narrative discussion with the results. Categorical data were listed to show range. The second research question was analyzed using the Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. On the basis of the literature review and the survey responses received, an authentic problem exists in the funding process of these organizations. The organizations surveyed appear to recognize the funding problems, but the results of the study reveal that many have yet to develop effective and efficient strategies to solve several of these problems.

Haïti a inventé une nation comme république patriotique : la première République noire et indépendante. Cependant, après 200 ans d’histoire, sévit un clivage récurent à caractère social, économique et anthropologique entre deux catégories de population. Une grande partie des « citoyens » haïtiens sont en fait exclus de l’exercice de la citoyenneté. Cette exclusion interroge particulièrement l’éducation. Elle rend nécessaire la refondation d’une éducation créatrice d’une nouvelle citoyenneté.La thèse s’interroge sur l’apport de la parole et de l’action de Joseph Wresinski comme « nouveauté » dans l’éducation à la citoyenneté en Haïti. Elle explore les fondements philosophiques de l’éducation à travers des approches anthropologiques sur la civilisation et sur les civilisations, respectivement dans les travaux du penseur haïtien Anténor Firmin et du penseur antillais Édouard Glissant.Le cadre théorique est celui de « l’action politique comme surgissement du nouveau et de l’agir-ensemble avec les autres » chez Hannah Arendt, et celui de la « nation comme communauté des citoyens » d’après Dominique Schnapper. Le Mouvement ATD Quart Monde met en œuvre la pensée sociale et éducative de son fondateur Joseph Wresinski de sorte que la reconnaissance des expériences et des savoirs des personnes exclues contribue à une citoyenneté à part entière en Haïti.Une recherche basée sur une enquête sociologique du chercheur impliqué a permis de recueillir et de comparer les représentations de la citoyenneté des membres d’ATD Quart Monde et de celles de diverses autres personnes. Les membres d’ATD Quart Monde de milieux différents ont présenté comment ils construisent une communauté de pensée et d’action qui associe les apports de l’école et ceux de la famille, les apports de la communauté de vie ou des quartiers avec ceux des « élites ». C’est ce que nous appelons une « citoyenneté de la rencontre », dont la thèse montre qu’elle a pu et peut se réaliser, à partir de l’action de Joseph Wresinski en Haïti, mais non sans difficultés ni contradictions. / Haiti has invented a nation that is also a patriotic republic: the first independant black Republic. However after 200 years of history, a recurrent social economical and anthropological cleavage pervades between two categories of the population. A great number of Haitian "citizens"are in fact excluded from the practice of citizenship. This type of exclusion questions especially education. It necessitates a radical educational reform that gives birth to a new kind of citizenship. This thesis studies the contribution of the message and action of Joseph Wresinski as something original in the education to citizenship in Haiti. It examines the philosophical foundations of education through anthropological approaches on civilization and on different types of civilizations, in the work of the Haitian and West Indian thinkers ANTENOR FIRMIN and EDOUARD GLISSANT respectively. The theoretical framework is similar to that of "the political action as sudden appearance of novelty and of common action with others" according to Hannah Arendt. It is also close to the context of "the nation as community of citizens" by Dominique Schnapper. ATD FOURTH WORLD implements the social and educational thought of their founder JosephWresinski in such a way that the acknowledgement of the experiences and know-how of excluded individuals contributes to complete citizenship in Haiti. Research based on a sociolological survey made by the researcher who is deeply concerned by the project has enabled us to collect the representations of citizenship by members of ATD FOURTH WORLD and to compare them with those established by other individuals. Members of the movement from different social backgrounds have shown how they establish a community of thought and action that associates the approaches of the school and those of the family, the contribution of the community and districts where people live together with that of the "elite". It's what we call "encounter citizenship". Which, as the thesis can be achieved from and through the action of Joseph Wresinski in Haïti, although with some difficulties and a certain number of contradictions.

This study operationalized Bekkers and Wiepking's (2007, 2011) eight theoretical mechanisms that drive private giving, examining them within the context of alumni donor behavior at a selected public university in the southern region of the United States. The purpose of the study was to determine if the theoretical mechanisms that drive private giving represent distinct psychometric dimensions, and whether they are correlated with one another or essentially independent. A survey with 24 original items was created for this study, and completed by 178 alumni association member donors and non-member donors from the selected university. The study found support for six factors that are relatively independent of one another, contributing meaningfully to the overall multidimensional construct. The found factors were labeled efficacy, solicitation, reputation, values, altruism, and awareness of need as they fit reasonably well according to their original names. No differences were found between the mean response scores for alumni association member donors and non-member donors across the six dimensions. These results are beneficial for university fundraisers, alumni relations professionals, researchers in the field of philanthropy, and methodologists interested in developing instruments that measure the motivations for private giving. / by Paul Metcalf. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.