How to make charitable appeals more effective


Creative Commons License photo credit: MK89Really interesting research and article here:

New Research Sheds Light on What Works in Charitable Appeals - Philanthropy.com

In one experiment, researchers found that information about the scope of a crisis may dilute the emotional impact of an image of a single victim. Subjects in the experiment were shown a photograph of Rokia, a 7-year-old girl from Mali who was facing starvation.

A second group was shown the same image along with information about the scale of poverty in Africa. The image of Rokia, without the accompanying statistics, won the charity more money.

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