Author: Brenda K. Bushouse
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A History of ARNOVA at Fifty
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), this article reviews the association’s history, from its 1971 founding by a small group of scholars interested in voluntary action to the current association of more than 1,000 members who…
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Orange Genie Raises £10,000 for Mind
Orange Genie have surpassed their target to raise £10,000 for mental health charity Mind. United Kingdom, January 2023 – Orange Genie are delighted to announce that they have surpassed their fund-raising target of £10,000 for mental health charity Mind. Orange Genie have a long history of support for good causes, and in 2019 they entered…
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Characteristics of Large Environmental Nonprofits That Identify Climate Change and Social Justice as Focal Concerns
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines the uptake of social justice and climate change as focal issues among the largest U.S. environmental nonprofits. We use 2016 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filings to identify 5,413 large environmental nonprofits of which 8% attend to issues of climate and 10% to issues of…
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Giving to Matthew, Emily, Jose, or Maria: A Field Study Examining the Impact of Race and Gender on Donation Requests
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Across the world, many individuals, organizations, and communities rely on the charitable contributions of others to meet critical needs. However, receiving aid can be challenging if donors discriminate against solicitors based on their demographic characteristics. We examined the potential impact of two of such characteristics, namely, the…
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How Charitable Were the Elites of the Dutch Golden Age?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. We study the charitable behavior of the wealthiest individuals in a very affluent and unequal society, that of the Dutch during their “Golden Age” (late 16th to the 17th centuries). Did these wealthy elites share their prosperity with those less fortunate? Using rare data from printed sources…
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Orange Genie Support Local Food Bank with Reverse Advent Calendar
This December Orange Genie held a reverse advent calendar event to support the most vulnerable in their local community United Kingdom, December 2022 In the first three weeks of December 2022, Orange Genie staff have been taking part in a reverse advent calendar event, the proceeds from which they have donated to a food bank…
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Resilience in Recovery? Understanding the Extent, Structure, and Operations of Nonprofits Meant to Address Disaster Survivors’ Unmet Needs
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Climate change is increasing the likelihood and magnitude of disaster impacts. The nonprofit sector’s ability to address disaster survivors’ needs will become an increasingly important aspect of adapting to a changing climate. Disaster recovery also provides time for nonprofits to affect community resilience to future disasters and…
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Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2022
For this post, a number of GiveWell staff members volunteered to share the thinking behind their personal donations for the year. We’ve published similar posts in previous years.1See our staff giving posts from 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and 2013. jQuery(‘#footnote_plugin_tooltip_14091_1_1’).tooltip({ tip: ‘#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_14091_1_1’, tipClass: ‘footnote_tooltip’, effect: ‘fade’, predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: ‘top right’, relative:…
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The Effect of State Minimum Wage Increases on Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The impact of minimum wage increases on employment has been extensively examined with mixed results. We extend the literature by hypothesizing and showing a differential impact of state-level minimum wage increases on nonprofit organizations as opposed to for-profit organizations. While we find that increases in minimum wages…
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The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections
In September, we announced the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses. Today, we’re excited to announce the winners! We’re very grateful that so many people engaged deeply with our work. This contest was GiveWell’s most successful effort so far to solicit external criticism from the public, and it wouldn’t have been…
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Top 10 Most-Read Blog Posts of 2022
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The Relationship Between Microfinance Mission Drift and Financial Returns to Stakeholders
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Some microfinance institutions (MFIs) can drift from their social mission, generating well-studied effects for their borrowers. We focus on the lesser-known effect of mission drift on the financial return to other stakeholders (employees, government, micro-savers, and banking creditors). Using a sample of 534 MFIs, we calculated the…
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December 2022 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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Do Donors Penalize Nonprofits With Higher Non-Program Costs? A Meta-Analysis of Donor Overhead Aversion
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Disparate research on overhead aversion and nonprofit starvation can benefit from a conceptual model that explains their relationships. Following resurrection of such a model, we focus on one important piece: the relationship between overhead spending and nonprofit donations. Studies on this topic have produced inconclusive results. Our…
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Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated With Voluntary Participation
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Voluntary participation in local groups or organizations varies by individual and across communities. Few studies examine the influence of structural resources on voluntary participation, with prior studies often considering it a single, binary action. Drawing from three data sources, we examined the extent to which individual-level and…