Author: Berta Terzieva
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Democracy and Management: Organizational Practices and Nonprofits’ Contributions to Society
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofit organizations contribute to society through service provision, advocacy, and community building. As they face the challenge of pursuing a social mission while operating in a market economy, many adopt businesslike practices in response. Nonprofits’ tendency to adopt such practices has become a contested scholarly topic, with,…
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Book Review: Organizing Logics, Nonprofit Management and Change
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Insights from Grantees: A CEP Blog Series
Funders have used CEP’s Grantee Perception Report to gather candid, comparative feedback from their grantees for more than two decades. In addition to sharing confidential reports with individual funders to […] The post Insights from Grantees: A CEP Blog Series appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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Raffles, Deworming, and Statistics
Sometimes statistics can help when it’s hard to decide what to do. You’re at a local art fair, and they’re raffling off a car worth $10,000. Five hundred tickets are being sold, each for $10. Does it make financial sense to buy a ticket? (For the moment, let’s set aside other questions about raffles and…
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Burnout and Well-Being in Grantee Organizations: A CEP Blog Series
Among the findings of Center for Effective Philanthropy’s State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to Know, was a striking statistic: 95 percent of nonprofit leaders who responded to CEP’s survey […] The post Burnout and Well-Being in Grantee Organizations: A CEP Blog Series appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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Bringing the Economic Benefits of Reading Glasses into Focus
It started in my early forties, and it’s only gotten worse since then. At first, it was a mild annoyance, but now it affects my quality of life and makes it harder to get things done. I’m definitely not alone—almost every middle-aged person I know has the same problem—and maybe you do too: a condition…
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Navigating Local: Emergent Roles of Navigators in Community-Driven Care Systems
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. As disparities in access to social services continue, nonprofit practitioners are reimagining mechanisms to support service provision through systems of care. Systems of care are interorganizational referral networks that assemble a cross-section of nonprofits to coordinate care. Care systems use human navigators to support clients connecting to…
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The Decline of Volunteering in the United States: Is it the Economy?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article investigates the complex interactions between local and national economic contexts and volunteering behavior. We examine three dimensions of local economic context—economic disadvantage (e.g., the percentage of families living in poverty), income inequality, and economic growth (e.g., the change in median household income)—and the impact of…
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Keeping the Spark Alive: How One Funder Invests in Grantee Well-Being
Burnout within nonprofit organization staff is a growing concern within the sector, as seen in the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s new research, State of Nonprofits 2024: What Funders Need to […] The post Keeping the Spark Alive: How One Funder Invests in Grantee Well-Being appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post…
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Bricolage Strategies, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Geographic Expansion of Social Enterprises
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Social enterprises (SEs), hybrid entities balancing revenue generation and social or environmental goals, often employ bricolage due to resource constraints. Interviews with 37 SE managers unveiled two pivotal bricolage strategies—utilizing SE status–related marketing resources and leveraging available technological resources—as well as how their interplay influences geographical expansion…
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More Money, More Problems? Implications of Excess Cash in Nonprofit Hospitals
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines the implications of excess cash in nonprofit hospitals. Using a nationally representative sample of hospitals, I benchmark nonprofit cash holdings against for-profit cash holdings, and find that nonprofit hospitals hold significantly more cash. I consider three potential uses of excess cash in nonprofit hospitals:…
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Book Review: Rocking Qualitative Social Science—An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research, by Rubin, A.T
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Volunteering in the Middle of Crisis and Politicization: The Role of Religiosity, Political Ideology, and Personal Experiences in Volunteerism Among Muslims and Christians During COVID-19
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Religion is a strong social identity cue that creates in-group and out-group identity. Yet individuals can harbor multiple identities, and a political ideology is another significant identity marker. Similarly, personal experiences with disease also create another social identity where individuals may feel part of the same social…
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What If We Have Extra?
What do you do if you’re in the very fortunate position of having more money than you need to meet your own immediate needs? You might find new things to buy. You might stockpile it for a rainy day. You might donate it to cost-effective global health programs. Or you might do some combination of…