Author: Valerie Threlfall
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Book Review: Homeschooling the right: How Conservative Education Activism Erodes the State, by Brown, H
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Eight Signs Your Board Might Be Dysfunctional
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Examining the Efficacy of Accountability Systems in Preventing Nonprofit Misconduct: A Look Beyond Financial Fraud
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The purpose of our study is to broaden the investigation of nonprofit misconduct beyond financial fraud perpetrated by individual actors and to identify structural features that are more or less likely to be associated with actual misconduct. We utilize the Charity Navigator Advisory System and related press…
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Let’s Give Together: Can Collaborative Giving Boost Generosity?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. A growing number of people donate to charity together with others, such as a spouse, friend, or stranger. Does giving to charity collectively with another person—called collaborative giving—promote generosity? Existing data offer unsatisfactory insight; most studies are correlational, present mixed findings, or examine other concepts. Yet, theory…
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Human Service Nonprofits Providing Services to Sex Workers: Efforts to Manage Competing Logics and Ideologies From an Inhabited Institutions Framework
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Human service nonprofits (HSNPs) are primarily responsible for addressing prominent social problems such as poverty, homelessness, addiction, and mental health. As such, they vary considerably in their service provision to their marginalized clients. In this paper, I use the theories of institutional logics and inhabited institutions to…
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Funders Share Stories of Change, Part Three: Listening, Collaboration, & Systems Change
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IPTi for malaria: a promising intervention with likely room to scale
Summary Intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi) for malaria provides preventive antimalarial medicine to children under 12 months old. It is among the most promising programs we’ve identified in our active pipeline of new interventions. Not only does IPTi appear to be highly effective at reducing clinical malaria, it’s also underutilized (more below), and the…
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Looking Back with Gratitude, Moving Forward Together
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The Role of Implicit Biases and Explicit Attitudes Toward the Poor in Donation Choices
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. We examined how individuals’ implicit biases and explicit attitudes toward the poor may be associated with the types of social programs people chose to give to. Participants included 112 students. When people believed that poverty is due to internal causes (e.g., people are lazy) or if they…
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AMH Philippines and Synspective sign MoU for Strategic Alliance to use SAR Data for Geohazard Mitigation Projects in the Philippines
(January 25 2022) AMH Philippines, Inc. and Synspective have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use SAR technology as part of an integrated and comprehensive approach to mitigate geohazards for infrastructure in the Philippines. The partnership includes the Land Displacement Monitoring (LDM) service, fully developed and automated by Synspective, and is empowered with AMH’s…
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Funders Share Stories of Change, Part One: Greater Focus on Systemic Inequities & Racial Equity
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