Fund raising

This dissertation investigated the influence of university presidents and business school deans on fundraising performance at public research universities. Drawing on strategic choice theory, upper echelons theory, and transformational leadership theory, this research suggests that managerial power and transformational leadership behaviors moderate the relationship between an institution’s fundraising strategy and its performance. To test these hypotheses, data on strategic choice, managerial power, leadership behaviors, and leader demographics were collected from 79 U.S. public research universities for fiscal years 2017–2021. Panel regression, specifically random-effects generalized least squares regression models, tested the hypotheses. The study found that university presidents and business school deans who exhibited transformational leadership behaviors, had higher fundraising outcomes. Furthermore, the study identified a significant positive effect of a dean’s prior work experience at prestigious institutions on a business school’s fundraising performance. This implies that deans hailing from elite institutions might possess qualities or networks that significantly enhance fundraising outcomes.

This study attempts to explain the motivation for a voluntary financial gift
through the analysis of individual value systems. Contributors and non-contributors to a fraternal association are compared by value rankings.
Certain socioeconomic information was also collected and compared. It
is anticipated that the study will be a base of information for more detailed
study into the complex field of motivation to contribute financially to
not-for-profit organizations.

Accounting associations have been slower to develop non -
dues income than have trade and other associations . Thirteen
major accounting associations, excluding state C. P. A. societies,
indicated that their rate of non-dues income varied directly
with the association's membership. Only associations with less
than one thousand members failed to conform to this pattern.
In 1970, only the accounting associations with a 25,000
membership, or over, attained the level of non- dues income
reported by trade and other associations in 1967.
The sale of books and other publications was the greatest
1970 source of non-dues income; however , rising revenues from
educational and training courses threaten this leadership position .
Income from advertising and publication subscriptions increased;
but advertising's taxability and the increased association scrutiny
by the Internal Revenue Service may reduce emphasis in these areas.
The threat of losing tax-exempt status could dempen future efforts
to expand non-dues income for accounting associations .