Author: Paige Brown
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“I’m Not Doing It for the Company”: Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees’ Eyes
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article contributes to research on employee volunteering (EV) by focusing on the experiences of individuals to address the current overemphasis upon collective organizational outcomes. Drawing on qualitative research with employees and corporate social responsibility managers across seven companies, it demonstrates why employees’ experiences are central to…
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Predictors of Nonprofit Ethno-Racial Diversity: Examining Local Community Demographics and Political Ideology
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Although the practitioner and the academic literatures both note the importance of ethno-racial diversity in the nonprofit sector, we pursue a better understanding of this sector’s ethno-racial diversity dynamics by exploring the drivers of ethno-racial diversity at multiple organizational hierarchy levels—boards of directors, executive staff teams, and…
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Supporting Volunteer Well-Being Through Disaster: Perspectives and Practices of a Youth-Led Informal Crisis Volunteer Group
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Embedded in growing expectations for post-disaster volunteer participation are questions of volunteers’ psychological well-being. Witnessing destruction and suffering, and the intense pressures of the work itself, can place heavy demands on crisis volunteers, particularly in “informal” community groups that may lack the structure, systems, and supports embedded…
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The Evolution of Nonprofit Governance Research: Reflections, Insights, and Next Steps
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The literature on nonprofit governance and boards has grown substantially during the past 50 years as researchers from a variety of disciplines and fields have studied governance systems and processes to examine how they are organized, the practices they employ, and their relations with and impacts on…
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AllianceBernstein Recognized By ESG Clarity UK Awards
At AllianceBernstein, we’re fully invested in actively pursuing responsibility—from the way we work, our community service, and the investment solutions we deliver to our clients. AB is honored to be recognized by ESG Clarity UK Awards in the Engagement category. https://esgclarity.com/esg-clarity-awards-2022-all-the-details/ About AllianceBernsteinAllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and…
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Beyond the Partnership Paradigm: Toward an Extended Typology of Government/Nonprofit Relationship Patterns
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article takes a fresh look at nonprofit/government relations in the context of both the partnership literature on collaboration and the closing space literature on repression. Following the Weberian ideal-type approach, we develop a heuristic tool for nuanced analyses of relations between the sectors in comparative research…
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Can We Chat . . . Privately? Using Twitter Chats to Facilitate Offline Engagement for Nonprofits
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines a health-focused nonprofit organization’s Twitter chats, using qualitative content analysis and social network analysis (SNA) to describe the characteristics of participants and their patterns of interaction. Together, these analyses indicate that Twitter chats do not produce the dialogue that seems inherent to the format.…
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Exploring the Regional Determinants of the Emergence of Social Enterprises in South Korea: An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. South Korea has experienced a rapid increase in the emergence of social enterprises that aim to address various social problems. However, little is known about the conditions that can affect the emergence of social enterprises at the regional level. This study examined the regional factors that influence…
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A Narrowing Window for Foundation Action on Climate Change
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Service-Learning in Higher Education and Prosocial Identity Formation
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. For most nonprofits, their effectiveness, sustainability, and survival all depend on the willingness of individuals to behave in prosocial ways, for example, by giving time, money, and/or resources to various organizations and causes. Scholars have, therefore, long sought to identify predictors of prosocial behaviors; and, one consistently…
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LGBTQ+ Youth Deserve More — And Philanthropy Can Help
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Business-Like and Still Serving Society? Investigating the Relationship Between NPOs Being Business-Like and Their Societal Roles
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) becoming business-like is a contested issue. Some understand the adoption of business-like practices by NPOs as a case of adopting rational myths through institutional isomorphism and thus potentially dangerous for NPOs’ ability to fulfill their unique societal roles. Others are more optimistic, arguing that…
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An update on GiveWell’s funding projections
As little as six months ago, we were in the position of having more funding available than we could spend on opportunities that met our very high cost-effectiveness bar. Today, the opposite is true—we don’t expect to have enough funding to support all the cost-effective opportunities we find. In this post we will: provide an…

