​Faculty Workshop | Managing Professional Boundaries (Harassment Awareness) 

Charitable giving is sometimes made collectively by a group of people. This form of philantrophy, called group giving, is gaining popularity in practice, but little has been studied in literature. Accordingly, a laboratory experiment is examined to conduct how group giving reacts to different rebate and matching subsidies that are awarded based on the collective giving level of a group. The results show that group giving is particularly effective in boosting a giving rate in a stepwise rebate and matching schemes. A stepwise rebate and matching seem to encourage major contributors to contribute even more so that a threshold is crossed for sure. In contrast, group giving slightly drives down a giving rate in proportional schemes. These results provide useful information for charitable organizations to develop a new intervention to increase charitable giving. This study also supplements the existing literature by providing empirical results on group giving.