Author: Jonghwa Lee, Jin-Kyung Jung
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Changes in Volunteering Landscape in South Korea During COVID-19: Trajectories of Volume and Engagement Patterns
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the global volunteer sector, yet its long-term impacts remain insufficiently explored. This study uses 4.7 million records from the 1365 Volunteer Portal (2019–2022) to examine formal volunteering trends in … Goto full post >>
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How Sudanese women are building lifelines from the ashes of war
Naema Abdullah stands over a blackened pot of bubbling oil, her hands moving with practiced ease as she drops small rounds of dough into the heat. Around her, three women work in steady rhythm—one kneading, another packaging the golden luqaimat, the fried dough balls beloved across Sudan, and a third calling out orders from neighbors. …
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NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing
NCRP Honors the Women Donors Network with Its “Mover and Shaker” Impact Award for Bold Peer Organizing WASHINGTON, DC – As a network of more than 250 individual donor activists who harness their collective power for justice, Women Donors Network (WDN) and its c4 sibling organization WDN Action have mobilized over $140 million to the…
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NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking
NCRP Honors Bush Foundation with its “Smashing Silos” Impact Award for Intersectional Grantmaking WASHINGTON, DC – Since its origin in 1953, the Bush Foundation has held fast to the belief that “wealth should be used for the benefit of all humanity.” Now, with a historic $200 million commitment to addressing racial wealth gaps, the foundation…
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NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism
NCRP Honors Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt with its Pablo Eisenberg Memorial Prize for Philanthropy Criticism WASHINGTON, DC – The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) recognizes two visionary leaders whose decades of fearless critique and advocacy have helped shape both the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. The Philanthropy Project’s Jon Pratt and Jan Masaoka have…
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Chile’s solidarity economy is growing
Chile has emerged from decades of often brutal dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet with a dynamic and growing economy—and deepened social and economic inequalities. Pinochet’s neoliberal economic policies have concentrated wealth among the few and left significant portions of the population behind. In 2017, 56 percent of the lowest-income population earned, on average, only $258…
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How the liberal city paved the way to neoliberalism
In 1979, a few years after New York’s fiscal crisis, New York City mayor Ed Koch posed for a photograph alongside Donald Trump. Mayor Koch despised the welfare state and cut it severely during his tenure. He also partnered with developers like Trump to promote real estate growth, in the hope that it would prevent…
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Effects of Different Leadership Styles on Workers in Ukrainian Non-Profit Organisations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines the relationship between leadership styles (transformational, empowering, servant) of Ukrainian non-profit organisation (NPO) managers and two employee outcomes, self-reported behaviour and commitment to change. A questionnaire … Goto full post >>
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Retaining Volunteers Through Political Economic Change: Austerity, Boundary Work, and the Making of an Unpaid Workforce in Newcastle’s Parks
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article is concerned with the persistence and transformations of local authority ‘in-house’ volunteering programs—which integrate volunteers recruited in a personal capacity in the delivery of local services—during the United Kingdom’s 2010–2020 … Goto full post >>
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NGO–Government Relations in States With Weak Institutions: Avoiding the State While Supplementing Resource Gaps
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Those working in the NGO space continue efforts to expand the set of government–nonprofit relationship types and strategies that comparative scholars may utilize so that researchers in diverse contexts have a more comprehensive toolbox for identifying … Goto full post >>
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NCRP Identifies Philanthropy’s Best & Boldest Leaders Meeting the Moment in its Winners of the 2025 IMPACT Awards
NCRP Identifies Philanthropy’s Best & Boldest Leaders Meeting the Moment in its Winners of the 2025 IMPACT Awards Selection Committee of 10 philanthropic and nonprofit leaders spotlights innovative and steadfast commitment of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grand Victoria Foundation, Women Donors Network, Bush Foundation, and The Philanthropy Project’s Jan Masaoka and Jon Pratt to challenge the sector to…