Pamala Wiepking

Pamala Wiepking

Title or Function

  • Researcher

Expertise

  • Global Philanthropy; Donor Motivation.

Institution/Organization

  • Indiana University Perdue University

Regional Center

  • International

Email Address

Websites

Biography

Dr. Pamala Wiepking (Schiedam, 1978) is the inaugural Visiting Stead Family Chair in International Philanthropy at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She studies cross-national and interdisciplinary explanations of philanthropy. She aims to make philanthropy more meaningful for all actors involved and she is the 2017 UMD SPP Do Good Institute-ARNOVA Award for Global Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership recipient for her leadership in international philanthropy and nonprofit research. Together with other researchers she has published on philanthropic behavior in –among others– Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Social Science Research, Voluntas and the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She is co-editor (with Femida Handy) of the Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy, which won the 2016 ARNOVA Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize. She is a member of the editorial board for the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. Pamala is one of the founding members of the European Research Network on Philanthropy and the Center for Global Generosity. She is also board member of the Dutch Fundraising Institute (NLFL).

Publications

De Wit, A., Neumayr, M., Handy, F., & Wiepking, P. (2018). Do Government Expenditures Shift Private Philanthropic Donations to Particular Fields of Welfare? Evidence from Cross-country Data. European Sociological Review34(1): 6-21.

Wiepking, Pamala and Femida Handy (Eds.). (2015). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy.Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 9781137341518.

Wiepking, Pamala, René Bekkers and Una Osili. (2014). Examining the Association of Religious Context with Giving to Non-Profit Organizations. European Sociological Review30(5): 640-654.

Wiepking, Pamala and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen. (2013). Picturing Generosity. Factors of Success and Failure of National Campaigns in the Netherlands. Part of a symposium on national fundraising campaigns in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly42(2): 262-284, edited by Pamala Wiepking and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen.

Wiepking, Pamala, and Russell N. James III. (2013). Why are the Oldest Old less Generous? Explanations of the Unexpected Age-Related Drop in Charitable Giving. Ageing & Society33(3): 486-510. Open Access Publication.

Wiepking, Pamala, and René Bekkers. (2012). Who Gives? A Literature Review of Predictors of Charitable Giving II – Gender, Marital Status, Income and Wealth. Voluntary Sector Review 3(2): 217-246.

Bekkers, René and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy: Eight Mechanisms that Drive Charitable Giving. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 40(5): 924-973.

Bekkers, René, and Pamala Wiepking. (2011). Who Gives? A Literature Review of Predictors of Charitable Giving I – Religion, Education, Age and Socialization. Voluntary Sector Review 2(3): 337-365.

Wiepking, Pamala. (2010). Democrats Support International Relief and the Upper Class Donates to Art? How Opportunity, Incentives and Confidence Affect Donations to Different Types of Charitable Organizations.Social Science Research39: 1073-1087.

Wiepking, Pamala and Ineke Maas. (2009). Resources That Make You Generous: Effects of Social and Human Resources on Charitable Giving. Social Forces86(June): 1973-1996.

Awards and distinctions

  • 2017 UMD SPP Do Good Institute-ARNOVA Award for Global Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership
  • 2017 Best conference paper award for the paper A Different Driver? Exploring Employee Engagement in Corporate Philanthropy, at the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) Conference in Copenhagen, July 12, 2017 (with Beth Breeze).
  • 2016 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize for The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the largest international association for research on philanthropy (with Femida Handy).
  • 2016 Academy of Management (AOM) Emerald Best International Symposium Award at the 2016 AOM Conference (with Femida Handy and Lonneke Roza).
  • 2016 Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Emerging Scholar Award for research on philanthropy and fundraising.