Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Capacity-building initiatives are popular among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. In response to a lack of valid and reliable capacity measures for NGOs working on various social issues, Shumate and colleagues developed an 8-dimension, 45-item NGO capacities instrument, based on data from U.S. NGOs. However, the proliferation of international research on NGO capacity raises questions about the degree to which such an instrument equally applies in other countries. To allow meaningful comparisons of NGO capacities across countries, we examine the measurement equivalence of this NGO capacity instrument across a matched sample of Chinese (N = 119) and U.S. (N = 150) NGOs. Findings suggest a new NGO capacity instrument, which comprises seven factors and 28 items and better accounts for the capacity of both Chinese and U.S. NGOs. Based on the new instrument, a series of comparative analyses highlight the influence of institutional factors on NGO capacities.
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Text Giving a Key Fundraising Tool for Children in Need’s Corporate Sponsors in 2019
Donr’s text giving platform helps raise money for PudseyNewcastle, 14th November, 2019: This year’s Children in Need has seen text giving become a vital fundraising tool. A number of large corporates, that raise money through a combination of staff initiatives and customer donations have embraced Donr’s text giving platform for this year’s fundraising efforts.Donr is supporting over 450 Enterprise Rent-a-Car (https://www.enterprise.co.uk/) branches nationally, 123 Cineworld (https://www.cineworld.co.uk/) sites and thousands of drivers and instructors who are…
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Realwire: Charity | https://www.realwire.com/rss/?id=531&row=&view=Synopsisekoru: "Fight Climate Change By Changing Your Search Engine"
November 12, 2019 – Every day, people endeavor to do their part for the environment – they carry reusable bags to the grocery store, recycle plastic bottles and cans, circulate news stories of the poor whale who died after swallowing 88 pounds of plastic, join protests for climate change, donate monthly to their favorite causes, or volunteer their weekends to clean the beach. Now, there is another way they can contribute by doing what they…
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Realwire: Charity | https://www.realwire.com/rss/?id=531&row=&view=SynopsisSmoking Households Give Less to Charity
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study had two aims: (a) to assess, among households in the United States, the association between spending money on cigarettes and participation in charitable giving, and between spending money on cigarettes and amount spent on charitable giving, and (b) to assess whether the association between smoking and charitable giving is mediated by religiosity, social capital, cognitive aptitude, and happiness. To address these aims, we used data from Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey and Midlife in the United States Survey. The analyses revealed that households that spend money on cigarettes are less likely to participate in charitable giving. Furthermore, among households who do give to charity, smoking households give a lesser amount than others do. Religiosity, social capital, cognitive aptitude, and happiness do not appear to mediate the relationship between smoking and charitable giving.
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