Author: Joanna Ware
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Open Philanthropy’s 2023-2025 funding of $300 million total for GiveWell’s recommendations
This year, Open Philanthropy plans to give $300 million for GiveWell to spend over the next three years. We’re grateful for what this support will enable us to do. Annualized, this is similar to what Open Philanthropy gave in 2020 and roughly in line with what we projected earlier this year. It’s less than Open…
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Does Revenue Concentration Really Bring Organizational Efficiency? Evidence From Habitat for Humanity
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Past empirical studies demonstrate a positive connection between revenue concentration and organizational efficiency. This supports the idea that concentrating revenue helps minimize transaction costs of nonprofit organizations, resulting in greater efficiency. However, this finding contradicts the belief that revenue concentration increases the risk of revenue volatility, leading…
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Good News for Change Champions: CEP’s Learning Institute Offers Cohorts and Workshops
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September 2023 updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We’ve decided to start publishing selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who might visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like…
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How Stakeholder Pressure Affects the Effectiveness of International-Local Nongovernmental Organization Collaboration in Localization of Humanitarian Aid
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Collaborative engagement between international and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has recently been promoted as an effective strategy to enhance internal process strengths but less as a strategy to localize humanitarian aid programs; a grand strategy that aims to strengthen local capacity, develop local capabilities, and boost regional…
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Book Review: Hoosier philanthropy: A state history of giving
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Goto full post >>
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The Nuance That Makes Philanthropy Worth Defending
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September 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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Antecedents of the Social Impact of Social Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Agenda for Future Research
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Despite growing research interest in the social impact of social enterprises (SEs), limited attention has been paid to the antecedents of social impact. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic review of 52 extant studies that examine the antecedents of SEs’ social impact. The paper synthesizes…