Tuesday, August 30, 2011

On Charity, Steve Jobs Has A Right To Remain Silent - Deborah L. Jacobs - DJ Working - Forbes

On Charity, Steve Jobs Has A Right To Remain Silent - Deborah L. Jacobs - DJ Working - Forbes: Wouldn’t it be something if Jobs has been giving anonymously all long?

One of the few surveys on anonymous giving concluded that the primary reason donors like to keep their identities a secret is to avoid solicitations from other organizations. The 1991 study, Survey on Anonymous Giving, by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, was based on responses from 563 senior development officers who had either graduated from a training course at the university’s fund-raising school or been certified as fund-raisers by the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives.

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