Author: Zoe Polk
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From Human Services to “Justice Enterprises”: Reframing the Market-Mission Tension in U.S. Organizations Serving Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofits must navigate a unique tension—meeting the financial demands of the market while pursuing a social mission. As a result, market and mission concerns are often framed in a competitive, dualistic relationship. However, organizational communication scholars argue that the mission-market tension is a natural, even ontologically defining…
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June 2023 open thread
Our goal with hosting quarterly open threads is to give blog readers an opportunity to publicly raise comments or questions about GiveWell or related topics (in the comments section below). As always, you’re also welcome to email us at info@givewell.org or to request a call with GiveWell staff if you have feedback or questions you’d…
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Institutional Determinants of Co-Production: Norway as an Illustrative Case
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on collective engagement through voluntary organizations to advance a theoretical understanding of the determinants of varying patterns of co-production, and we conduct an empirical investigation of how these determinants shape local-level co-productive relationships in Norwegian municipalities. We use a policy fields approach in which…
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LGBTQ+ Youth Deserve More — And Philanthropy Can Help
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Book Review: For-profit philanthropy: Elite power & the threat of limited liability companies, donor-advised funds, & strategic corporate giving
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Madam C.J. Walker’s Lessons for Giving — and Living — Well
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Who Leads and Who Echoes? Tracing Message Similarity Network of #ClimateChange Advocacy on Twitter
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. How do nonprofits advocate and shape climate conversations on Twitter? We answer this question by combining computational analyses with thick descriptions of discursive data to analyze message diffusion on Twitter. We first map a temporal message similarity network comprising 298,073 unique tweets sent by climate action and…
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Corrigendum to “Jesus Speaks Better”: Interactions Between State and Faith-Based Organizations in Service Implementation
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Funders Take Note: Philanthropy Can Do More to Support Student Aspirations
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What Does ChatGPT Know About Philanthropy?
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Climate Change and the Voluntary Sector: An Introduction
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The voluntary and civil society sector plays important roles in climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, especially given the pervasive government and market failures in this policy domain. Does the quality and quantity of scholarship published in nonprofit-focused journals reflect the topic’s importance? This article reviews voluntary sector…
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Understanding Contextual Determinants of Likely Online Advocacy by Millennial Donors
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Increasing online advocacy by donors has important implications for nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Through a lens of self-disclosure theory, this current research combines data across three quantitative cross-sectional surveys of millennial Australian donors who donate blood, time, and/or money to better understand how NPOs can encourage existing donors…
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Why GiveWell funded the rollout of the malaria vaccine
Since our founding in 2007, GiveWell has directed over $600 million to programs that aim to prevent malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that causes severe illness and death. Malaria is preventable and curable, yet it killed over 600,000 people in 2021—mostly young children in Africa.[1] Following the World Health Organization’s approval of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine…
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Understanding Location and Density: A Spatial Analysis of Cuyahoga County Ohio’s Nonprofit Sector
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Theories of density dependence emphasize the role of competition and legitimation in organizational life. However, agglomerative configurations and ecological processes vary substantially over space, resulting in heterogeneous sub-populations which organizations select into by choosing locations. Using geostatistical data constructed from form-990 submissions and the American Community Survey,…