Author: Gerhard Speckbacher
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Values, Performance, or Both? How Values-Focused Work Can Benefit From Results-Based Management
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. While results-based performance measurement has become a common practice in governing relationships with external stakeholders, many nonprofits are struggling with severe tensions when implementing results-based management practices inside the organization. This article draws on performance management research in accounting and management to analyze why results-based management poses…
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Why we’re funding clubfoot treatment through MiracleFeet
For many people, GiveWell is practically synonymous with our short list of top charities. But the amount of money we’ve sent to other organizations, doing other important work, has been increasing. In 2021, we made or recommended about $190 million in grants to non–top charity programs, like water treatment and malnutrition treatment, and in 2022,…
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Spreading the News: Donor Response to Disclosures About Nonprofit Fraud
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Even the most conscientious nonprofit organizations can fall victim to fraud. We examine how a nonprofit organization’s Form 990 disclosures and media coverage about an asset diversion influence subsequent donor support. Consistent with a loss in trust, we observe a decrease in donations following a diversion. This…
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Street-Level Pedagogy: Fostering and Communicating Social Equity Through Course Syllabi
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines frontline educators as street-level bureaucrats and their pedagogical philosophies, approaches, and choices—what we are calling “street-level pedagogy” to prepare current and future public servants and nonprofit leaders. This provides crucial insight into how (or if) social equity is incorporated into syllabi through a critical…
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How Moral Goodness Drives Unethical Behavior: Empirical Evidence for the NGO Halo Effect
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. With the occurrence of high-profile scandals in the nongovernmental organization (NGO) sector, scholars and practitioners alike have questioned why “good” organizations behave badly, yet little empirical research has explored this topic in depth. The present study examines the NGO halo effect, a conceptual framework that proposes three…
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New Evidence of Growing Funder Trust as Nonprofits Confront Continued Challenges
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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…