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Continuing Giving in the Netherlands (2024) – About Giving in 2022: A Year of Crisis
Since the beginning of this year, the Center for Philanthropic Studies continued their research on giving in the Netherlands. Giving in the Netherlands 2024 will be the 14th edition, about giving in the year 2022: a year of crisis. In the first months of 2022, we were...
René Bekkers receives Open Science Amsterdam Award
René Bekkers received an Open Science Amsterdam Award for the project Transparency in Nonprofit and Philanthropy Research. The Open Science Amsterdam community encourages awareness of open science principles and adherence to them at UMC Amsterdam, VU, UvA,...
Center for Philanthropic Studies researchers receive Emotional Well-being and Health Data Analysis Award
Unemployment, especially when involuntary, often has a negative effect on one’s emotional well-being. But is that the same for volunteers and non-volunteers? It could be that volunteers are less sensitive to the stress of job loss by having a social support network...
Support from companies for charities during corona crisis is greater than ever
In the corona year 2020, the Netherlands gave 5.6 billion euros to charitable organizations. This is evident from the research Giving in the Netherlands by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Companies in particular have started giving more to charitable causes: they...