Category: Feeds
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No Strings Attached: An Examination of Board-Designated Endowments in Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. We examine whether having at least a portion of an endowment free from donor restrictions (i.e., a board-designated endowment [“BDE”]) affects endowment objectives related to intergenerational equity, rainy-day funding, or accumulation. Our results … Goto full post >>
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Attitudinal and Emotional Outcomes and Drivers of Ordinary and Crisis Volunteering
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines how crisis volunteering, that is, volunteering in response to needs arising during crises and ordinary volunteering that addresses needs independent of crises, relates to prosocial attitudes and negative emotions, using a four-wave … Goto full post >>
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NCRP Supports Southern Poverty Law Center and Decries ‘Outrageous and Hypocritical’ Actions of Fidelity Charitable
CONTACT(S): Russell Roybal rroybal@ncrp.org Jennifer Amuzie jamuzie@ncrp.org NCRP Supports Southern Poverty Law Center and Decries ‘Outrageous and Hypocritical’ Actions of Fidelity Charitable National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy President and CEO Aaron Dorfman said, “It’s outrageous and hypocritical that Fidelity Charitable has ceased processing donations…
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Between Decorporatization and Contract-Based Governance: The Impact of Public Funding on Voluntary Organizations’ Advocacy Engagement in Norway, 1983 to 2013
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines how public funding shapes nonprofit advocacy under changing institutional conditions, using Norway as a case of a shift from corporatist representation toward pluralist and contract-based governance. Drawing on survey data from … Goto full post >>
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What Our Committee Is Saying About EPIP2026
EPIP is lucky to have a dynamic crew of members serving on our volunteer conference planning committee. Representing the full spectrum of the philanthropic ecosystem, these members have been busy behind the scenes to help prepare EPIP2026. Hear directly from our content sub-committee members about why they think you’ll enjoy some of the breakout sessions…
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Remember the Future Podcast: Why We Moved $90k to Arts Collectives & Cooperatives
Remembering the Future is tapping into ancestral wisdom to inform the co-creation of a world that prioritizes the wellbeing of human and non-human life for the next seven generations and beyond. Artists are the culture—they invite us to question, reimagine, and shape our present and future economy. The influence and wealth they infuse into society…
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April 2026 Update
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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Proving It’s Possible: Movement-Led Equity in Philanthropy
Across multiple issue areas, movement organizers express a desire for funders to understand the importance of funding people and organizations on the frontlines of these crises. But often the conversation goes deeper: what if we as movement leaders had our own folks running these funds? This query changes the conversation from a fund being movement accountable to also being movement-led.…
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Psychological Experiences of Community as Building Blocks of Civil Society
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This work explores civic engagement in Ukraine in 2022 soon after the full-scale Russian invasion. We collected responses from 998 Ukrainian citizens to understand their perspectives on civil society in the first year of the invasion, and more importantly,… Goto full post >>
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Research Note: Form 990 Data Quality and Reliability
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofit financial transparency is vital for research, policy, and public trust. Yet IRS Form 990 data—the most widely used nonprofit data set—raises reliability concerns because it is unaudited and follows tax, rather than Generally Accepted Accounting … Goto full post >>
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Black Feminist Refusal: Birth Equity Amidst Divestment and Capitulation
Alabama remains one of the most restrictive and challenging reproductive health environments in the country. The state’s laws, healthcare infrastructure, and political climate combine to create conditions where access to basic reproductive care is inconsistent, limited, and often unsafe. Black women experience maternal mortality rates three times higher than their white counterparts, meaning the burden of this hostile…
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Podcast Episode 28: Evaluating and Funding a New Kind of Grant (Clubfoot Treatment)
Clubfoot, a congenital condition where children are born with one or both feet twisted inward, affects roughly one in 800 newborns globally. Most of those cases are in low- and middle-income countries, where only about 20% of children with clubfoot receive treatment. While most donations to GiveWell are directed to programs that reduce child mortality,…