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How a food charity ‘made sense’ of the COVID crisis and thrived

How a food charity ‘made sense’ of the COVID crisis and thrived

The much-maligned meeting plays a pivotal part in helping people 'make sense' of a crisis.

Paul J Thambar

Ralph Kober

Department of Accounting

Too little accountability and too much information hurts embattled charities

Too little accountability and too much information hurts embattled charities

Following a damaging incident, charities rush to disclose to reassure donors. But that often causes more harm.

Matthew Hall

Zhengqi (Yuki) Guo

Leona Wiegmann

Department of Accounting

How donors decide which charities are worthy

How donors decide which charities are worthy

People donating to charities are not looking for complex financial information to make their decision.

Matthew Hall

Department of Accounting

Financial resilience: How accounting helped a food relief charity when COVID hit

Financial resilience: How accounting helped a food relief charity when COVID hit

When COVID-19 plunged a thriving food charity into crisis, Monash Business School researchers were on hand to observe what happened next.

Ralph Kober

Paul J Thambar

Department of Accounting

Charitable giving: What motivates your donation?

Charitable giving: What motivates your donation?

Do you believe some groups deserve handouts, but that others should work for it? And how do you decide? The answers to these questions could depend on your motives for donating to charity: Are your motives purely altruistic, or do you do it simply for that “warm inner glow”?

Philip J Grossman

Lata Gangadharan

Department of Economics