On 11/11/2015 01:04 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi > > I came across this old NYT article on "philanthropic economics", thought > it might be of interest here: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/magazine/09Psychology-t.html > > -- > Cheers > Dave >
Thanks. That's got a wordy and tangential writing style, but decent stuff. All of this plays into what we already know at Snowdrift.coop: these things are not all rational calculations. This is about a social contract where we get people to think about agreeing together to all do our part. That's the key element here. And our matching system isn't about the exact numbers, it's about the flexibility where we not only all do our part, but we care about being part of inviting more people to come join as well. For anyone curious, a tl;dr for the article: people study matching and other things in traditional donating, and the results include things like anchor points and seeing what others do and donating *more* when you see others donating more (i.e. people donate to the projects that are already doing the best rather than pull back). Nothing super insightful. -- Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/discuss
