# kaal:claim:3981021-004

**Claim.** Survey evidence shows a public trust deficit toward charities: while 70 percent of Americans say trust is essential before making a donation, fewer than 20 percent say they highly trust charities.

**Type.** empirical  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- United States survey populations
- Better Business Bureau survey

**Source quote.**

> Moreover, a survey by the Better Business Bureau found that 70% of Americans said that trust is essential before making a donation, but fewer than 20% of Americans said they highly trust charities.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Optimize Charitable Giving* (2021), Motivation, Lack of Transparency, page 11

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

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `9d8bc78d119c780c96c89ce3e820f4ac8b037d39b3ade59feb4e40d46b048288` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20How%20Decentralized%20Autonomous%20Organizations%20Optimize%20Charitable%20Giving.pdf

**Topics.** reputation, empirical-evidence

**Keywords.** public-trust, survey-data, nonprofits, charitable-giving

**Related claims.**

- supports: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-038

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