How does our enjoyment of giving to charity change in the short and long term? Does giving with others increase our enjoyment of giving and generosity? Could collaborative giving increase lifetime generosity? Should your charity invest in encouraging supporters to give collaboratively?

In this episode, you'll hear from Jason Proulx, a PhD student at Simon Fraser University. 

You can find out more about Jason on the links below.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MuU4bcUAAAAJ

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jdproulx

This conversation was based on a research paper published by Jason Proulx, Lara Aknin, and Alixandra Barasch called Let’s give together: Can collaborative giving boost generosity? Available here: https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221074699

You can find out more about your host, Zac Parsons, on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/zwparsons/

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Have a conversation with a colleague about whether you think the experience of giving to your charity is enjoyable. Do you think that encouraging collaborative giving is something you should explore? 

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(0:00) Intro

(0:54) What is collaborative giving?

(2:41) Why do we feel good when giving to charity?

(5:36) How does social psychology contribute to charitable giving?

(8:03) The balance of short-term joy and longer-term fulfilment in charitable giving

(11:13) Does giving collaboratively make people more or less generous?

(13:55) Jason Proulx’s experiments looking at collaborative giving’s impact on enjoyment and generosity

(17:38) Could collaborative giving increase lifetime generosity?

(18:59) Should your charity invest in encouraging collaborative giving?

(20:51) Find out more about Jason

(22:09) Jason’s future research

(23:21) Outro