Attitudes and practice of citizens and companies on philanthropy – results of the national research study
Electronic version of the publication in which results of the first national research study about individual and corporate philanthropy in Croatia are presented is now available. The research study has been conducted within the project “Trust in local philanthropy” in which ODRAZ is partner to Community Foundation Slagalica from Osijek. The role of ODRAZ in the project was data processing and analyzing as well as writing of the report.
The aim of the research was to gather data about individual and corporate philanthropy in the Republic of Croatia, namely about the amount of financial means which citizens and business sector allocate for public benefit, about reasons and motives for donating as well as about trends in this area.The results of the research represent practice and attitudes about philanthropy on the national level of the surveyed citizens as well as part of the business sector.
The aim of these results is to contribute to better understanding of the usefulness of philanthropy for community development as well as in the planning of further activities for strengthening of philanthropy.
National research has been conducted in the period from June to July in the year 2016. It was a field research which was conducted by the company Hendal d.o.o. from Zagreb. Respondents were surveyed at their addresses where the interviewers entered the data in the form of responses to the questions from the survey. Two surveys made by Trag Foundation from Serbia which conducted similar research in the end of 2012 were used.
Surveys were adapted to our conditions and certain questions were added, in order to gain insight into particularities of philanthropic activities in Croatia. The role of ODRAZ was data processing and analyzing as well as writing of the report.