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Fundraising work is often precarious: intense periods of income followed by nothing. This is not a matter of individual poor planning; it is how the ecosystem of short-term gig work is structured. Revenue Spreading starts from the worker's real need: some prefer money now, others prefer the security of knowing something will still arrive years later. The mechanism aims to leave that choice with the person, not the platform.
Fundraising work is often precarious: intense periods of income followed by nothing. This is not a matter of individual poor planning; it is how the ecosystem of short-term gig work is structured. Revenue Spreading starts from the worker's real need: some prefer money now, others prefer the security of knowing something will still arrive years later. The mechanism aims to leave that choice with the person, not the platform.


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* [[#the-need|The need: stability for precarious work]]
* [[#how-it-works|How it is intended to work]]
* [[#roles|Who does what]]
* [[#why-it-matters|Why it matters for the ecosystem]]
* [[#state-of-the-art|State of the art]]
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== State of the art ==
Better distributing fundraising revenue among the people who do the dialogue work relates to research on charitable giving, fundraising management and pay in platform-mediated work.
* James Andreoni (1990), ''Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving'', The Economic Journal, 100(401): [https://doi.org/10.2307/2234133 doi:10.2307/2234133] · [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm-glow_giving warm-glow giving on Wikipedia].
* René Bekkers 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): [https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764010380927 doi:10.1177/0899764010380927].
* Edward P. Lazear (2000), ''Performance Pay and Productivity'', American Economic Review, 90(5): [https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.90.5.1346 doi:10.1257/aer.90.5.1346].
* Alex Rosenblat and Luke Stark (2016), ''Algorithmic Labor and Information Asymmetries: A Case Study of Uber's Drivers'', International Journal of Communication, 10: [https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4892 open access article].
* On the practice itself: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fundraising street fundraising on Wikipedia].
'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|R&D Portal]]
'''See also:''' [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Innovations:Main|All innovations]] · [[Gov/en/Portal:R&D/Main|R&D Portal]]


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