Author: Karthik Subramanian
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June 2021 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 prefer to…
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“Where My Gays At?” The Status of LGBTQ People and Queer Theory in Nonprofit Research
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article critically examines academic scholarship in the field of nonprofit studies that pertains to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and issues. We introduce the key tenets of queer theory, a critical theory which encourages questioning social constructs, to nonprofit studies as a lens…
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Book Review: The business of changing the world: How billionaires, tech disrupters, and social entrepreneurs are transforming the global aid industry by Kumar, R. and The enlightened capitalists: Cautionary tales of business pioneers who tried to do well by doing good by O’Toole, J
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Half a Century of NVSQ: Thematic Stability Across Years and Editors
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The aim of this article is to understand how the scholarship of the nonprofit sector shifted after almost half a century (1972–2019) of publication in the field’s premier journal, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Unlike previous attempts to understand the field’s scholarly evolution, we did not rely…
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New Data Reveals A More Positive Outlook for Some, But Not All, Nonprofits
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Perception of Internal Controls Helps Explain Whistleblowing
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The nonprofit sector may suffer financially from inconsistency in regulations and polices surrounding internal control implementation. To address this issue, our study explores how perceived internal control strength differs between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Furthermore, we examine three components of the Committee of Sponsoring Organization framework to…
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Stretching Dollars without Straining Donors: The Case for Revolving Funds
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Why Is Human Milk Donation Absent From the Literature on Philanthropic Giving? The Invisible Female Donor and Her Invisible Gift
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In this research note, we call attention to human milk donation being essentially omitted from the philanthropy literature and bodily gifting research. We focus here on human milk donations for infant feeding through nonprofit milk banks. We argue that its omission is due to two main factors:…
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Growing Up Nonprofit: Predictors of Early-Stage Nonprofit Formalization
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The nonprofit organizational life cycle literature has traditionally focused on the entry and exit processes; the intermediate organizational life stages between these bookends have received less attention. Almost half of all nonprofits at any given time operate in an early life stage with less than US$100,000 in…
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Demographic Portrait of Grantees: What We’re Learning and Doing to Support Inclusion and Improve Our Practices
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Disaggregating the Effects of Inequality on Informal Giving: Evidence From Pakistan
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In this article, we outline the determinants of informal charitable giving and the link between giving and inequality. Arguing that inequality encompasses at least two competing effects—distrust and observed need for donations—we use a novel proxy to separate out the effect of the latter from the former…
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Dartmouth receives $20 million for STEM initiatives
The gift, which honors the legacy of E.E. Just, an African-American trailblazer and Dartmouth alumnus, will enhance the representation, success, and leadership of historically underrepresented groups in STEM…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Memorial Sloan Kettering receives $20 million for lung cancer research
The gift from the Ge Li and Ning Zhao Family Foundation will establish an initiative aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of the biology of lung cancer and developing new targeted therapies to overcome drug resistance and prevent metastasis…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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People in the News (05/16/2021): appointments, promotions, obituaries
The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector…. Philanthropy News Digest | https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/rss/feed/pndnewsGoto full post >>
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Donations and the Overhead Ratio Are Related Even When Donors Do Not Bother About Efficiency
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Empirical research on donor behavior infers from donations being negatively related to overhead ratios (or indicators based on these ratios) that donors give more to more “efficient” organizations. This relation is proved to be at least partly driven by a purely mechanical link between donations and overhead…