Author: Alan J. Abramson
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Assessing the State of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector: What Indicators Should We Use?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research note identifies seven key dimensions of the nonprofit sector that nonprofit stakeholders want to monitor to assess the sector’s condition, including financial resources; human resources; the diversity of nonprofit boards, staff, and clients; the impact of the nonprofit sector; advocacy activity; ethical and legal behavior;…
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NVSQ Symposium on Critical Nonprofit Studies
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 473-477, June 2022. Goto full post >>
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Using Conditional Inference Trees to (Re)Explore Nonprofit Board Composition
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This Research Note introduces nonprofit scholars to the contemporary analytical tool of conditional inference trees as a means to shed more light on the institutional forces behind the changing composition of nonprofit boards of trustees. Revisiting the data of the Six-Cities Cultures of Trusteeship Project, this note…
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How We’re Listening, Learning, and Looking Forward
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Two Years Later, Part Three: Observing Eight Traits of Effective Leaders
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When it Comes to Foundation Leaders, Prior Nonprofit Experience Matters
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Neil Buddy Shah has been appointed CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative
I am excited to share that GiveWell Managing Director Buddy Shah has been appointed CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a major global health organization working across a range of issues including malaria prevention and maternal and neonatal health. This news is bittersweet for me. I’m sad to be losing the talent, advice,…
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Two Years Later, Part Two: Who Trusted, and Why It Matters
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Newsflare to match its member's earnings donations to assist Ukrainian Refugees
London, New York, Los Angeles 12th April 2022: Newsflare, the world’s leading licensing platform and marketplace for user-generated video (UGV), is offering its 45,000 global membership of filmers the option to donate their earnings to the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (UNHCR). Newsflare will match every donation made in support of the charity, whose…
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The Social Meanings of the Third Sector: How Action and Purpose Shape Everyday Understandings of “Nonprofit”
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. How do nonspecialists of nonprofit practice, law, and scholarship conceptualize the third sector? This article explores the everyday meanings of nonprofit organization and action empirically by reporting on a survey-based exercise in which research participants coded statements describing qualitatively different interactions between various types of entities. The…
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A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions
As we continue to grow, GiveWell seeks to maximize both the cost-effectiveness of the funding we direct and the likely room for more funding of the programs we support. We think we’ve identified a category of interventions that rates really well on both: water treatment, such as chlorination. This is a major update for us.…
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Two Years Later, Part One: Nonprofit Heroism Up, Trust Down
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Governing for Whom? The Link Between Representative Governance and Segregation in North Carolina’s Charter Schools
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Market-based reforms have become pervasive in the public sector, generating a vigorous debate about whether they promote public goals like effectiveness, efficiency, and equity. Nonprofit organizations are not only instrumental in the market for public services but also play important representative roles in democratic society. This article…
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The Miracle is You: An Argument for Continuing to Reimagine the Reporting Process
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