Author: Steven Balsam
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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…
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The Joy in Giving Done Right: Looking Back on Season 3 of CEP’s Podcast
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Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud to streamline the operation of its annual Christmas campaign to support the homeless
UK, Reading. November 29, 2022 – IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, today announced that it is major technology partner supporting the annual Crisis for Christmas campaign to help the homeless – the 12th year it has helped the charity. Since 1967, Crisis has supported the…
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Volunteer Engageability: A Conceptual Framework
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In this article, we introduce the concept of “engageability,” which refers to the ability of volunteer-employing nonprofit organizations to engage, motivate, and manage volunteers to maximize their potential and sustain the volunteering human resource. Engageability conceptually complements the two well-established concepts of volunteerability and recruitability. By offering…
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Our recommendations for giving in 2022
We wrote back in July that we expected to be funding-constrained this year. That remains true as we approach the end of the year, putting us in the unusual position of leaving impact on the table. We’ve set a goal of raising $600 million in 2022, but our research team has identified $900 million in…
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Impact of Experienced Regret on Donation Willingness: Advertising Appeal and Framing Effect
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Donors often experience donation regret caused by charity wrongdoings and mismanagement, which will reduce future donation willingness. The literature has not fully delineated the underlying mechanism of donors’ response to experienced regret. The effective advertising appeal and message framing which could be used to mitigate the detrimental…
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The Effects of Big Gifts: New CEP Research Report on MacKenzie Scott’s Giving
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Lower Prices for Customers, and Less Charity Care? The Prospects for Mixed-Market Competition With Nonprofit and Hybrid Firms
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In recent years, the emergence of new legal forms allowing for-profit firms to incorporate with a formal commitment to both profit and social purpose has disrupted the traditional American business-charity dichotomy. The arrival of these hybrid firms can be expected to affect the functioning of markets and…