Call for interest in research project on generosity and giving
Howard Lake | 16 August 2007 | News
From: Peter Mundey [mailto:pm*****@nd.edu" data-original-string="ee0fjLEYjK6xJpwuXosAOQ==" title="This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.]
Sent: Tue 07/08/2007 16:13
To: Harris ME
Subject: Research Project on Generosity and Giving
Already got long list of survey measures, organisations and individual researchers.
Dear Dr. Harris:
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Greetings from the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame. I am writing on behalf of the Center’s Director, Christian Smith.
We at the Center recently received a planning grant from the John Templeton Foundation to conduct background research on the topic of generosity, toward the launch of a possible major RFP project next year to fund many studies on generosity. “Generosity” here includes, but is not limited to, charitable financial giving, volunteering of time and talents, and personal relational investments into others for the common good. We are interested in understanding the genesis, manifestations, and effects of generosity on both recipients and givers. We think you might be interested in our project, and we intend to get into contact with you again in the future, as our project develops and a possible RFP is announced.
Meanwhile, one of the background tasks we are working on now is compiling a comprehensive contact list of researchers and organizations that are interested in different aspects of generosity. We are asking people who we know about, like yourself, to help us identify people and organizations that we do not already know about. We would greatly appreciate your help in providing to us any contact information of other researchers or organizations that you may know that are interested in generosity, as well as extant survey instruments or established survey measures relevant to this subject. See below for examples of survey measures, organizations, and researchers that are already in our database. If you know of any additional people, centers, organizations, or surveys that you think might be relevant to our project, please let me know about them. We appreciate your help very much.
Warm regards,
Peter Mundey
University of Notre Dame
Generosity Project Assistant
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