# kaal:claim:3981021-001

**Claim.** Existing legal incentives in many jurisdictions produce so called Zombie Charities, with the consequence that donative intent often cannot be optimally fulfilled.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- jurisdictions whose legal incentives favor endowment preservation

**Source quote.**

> Existing legal incentives often lead to so called Zombie Charities in many jurisdictions. The donative intent can therefore often not be optimally fulfilled.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving* (2021), Abstract, page 1

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3981021

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**Failure mode.** Zombie Charity  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** zombie-charities, legal-incentives, donative-intent, charitable-giving

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