Different or equal treatment? Donor priority strategy and fundraising performance assessed by a propensity score matching study

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 443-472

  Scherhag, Christian ^a   Boenigk, Silke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arts; Culture; Fundraising; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878996139     PISSN: 10486682     EISSN: 15427854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nml.21074     Document Type: Article

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