Private donations and Australia's welfare state

Lyons, M

Private donations and Australia's welfare state

Lyons, M

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Publisher:: Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management (CACOM)
Publication Type:: Working Paper
Citation:: Lyons, M. 1993, Private donations and Australia's welfare state, CACOM Working Paper No.15, Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management, University of Technology, Sydney.
Issue Date:: 1993-09

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Lyons, M
dc.date.accessioned	2014-10-01T05:43:52Z
dc.date.available	2014-10-01T05:43:52Z
dc.date.issued	1993-09
dc.identifier.citation	Lyons, M. 1993, Private donations and Australia's welfare state, CACOM Working Paper No.15, Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management, University of Technology, Sydney.	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1-86365-119-5
dc.identifier.issn	1036 823X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29952
dc.description	An earlier version of this paper was presented to the National Social Policy Conference at the University of New South Wales, 14 May 1993.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Although many of Australia's nonprofit organisations rely heavily for their revenue on government grants, many also receive significant assistance from private donations as well. This paper reviews data on giving by Australian households, businesses and foundations. It finds some support for the U-shaped relationship between giving and income that has been observed in America. However, when household expenditure is adjusted for household size, giving as a percentage of household expenditure slowly increases, as intuition suggests it should. The paper also finds that the aged and people born overseas (excluding the UK or New Zealand) are more generous than others with the same capacity to give. Most interestingly, it finds that Australian business is very generous, giving as much collectively as individuals and households. By comparison with the United States, Australians are not generous and the paper concludes with an examination of possible reasons for this.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management (CACOM)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	CACOM Working Paper;No. 15
dc.subject	Welfare State	en_US
dc.subject	Nonprofit organisations	en_US
dc.subject	Donations	en_US
dc.subject	Australia	en_US
dc.title	Private donations and Australia's welfare state	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Although many of Australia's nonprofit organisations rely heavily for their revenue on government grants, many also receive significant assistance from private donations as well. This paper reviews data on giving by Australian households, businesses and foundations. It finds some support for the U-shaped relationship between giving and income that has been observed in America. However, when household expenditure is adjusted for household size, giving as a percentage of household expenditure slowly increases, as intuition suggests it should. The paper also finds that the aged and people born overseas (excluding the UK or New Zealand) are more generous than others with the same capacity to give. Most interestingly, it finds that Australian business is very generous, giving as much collectively as individuals and households. By comparison with the United States, Australians are not generous and the paper concludes with an examination of possible reasons for this.

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