Category: Feeds
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Rethinking Volunteering as a Natural Resource: A Conceptual Typology
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Volunteering can be understood as a human-made, renewable resource that can be grown and recycled, and whose continuation and volume of flow can be influenced by human beings positively as well as negatively. We extend the metaphor and break down the monolithic concept into three categories: traditional…
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The (R)evolution of the Social Entrepreneurship Concept: A Critical Historical Review
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The contested concept of social entrepreneurship has gained particular prominence in academic literature over the last few decades. To explore how patterns of understandings relating to social entrepreneurship have emerged and shifted over time, we undertook a critical historical review focusing on the most highly cited social…
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Paramount Consumer Products and Nickelodeon Announce Launch of Global Ocean Conservation and Sustainability Initiative SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Sea Change
Multi-Year Campaign to Launch with Multiple Non-Profit and Consumer Products Partners NEW YORK – Paramount Consumer Products and Nickelodeon today announced the launch of SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Sea Change, a brand-new global ocean conservation and sustainability initiative. Through partnerships with several non-profit organizations, SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Sea Change aims to help remove and divert five…
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Asking the Right Questions on Funder Effectiveness
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Nonprofit Organizations and the Evaluation of Social Impact: A Research Program to Advance Theory and Practice
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article proposes a research program with two goals: (a) to support nonprofit leaders to productively engage evaluation and (b) to advance a meso-level theory of nonprofit evaluation that recognizes the diverse ways nonprofits contribute to social change. Such a research program is timely, as evaluation becomes…
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Rajant World Music Benefit for UNICEF November 8th at Philadelphia’s City Winery
Opera Philadelphia, Tequila Rock Revolution, Donn T, and More Top Talent Playing Fundraiser #ForEveryChild – Concert, Dinner, and Silent Auction Tickets on Sale Now Malvern, PA – October 26, 2022: Rajant Corporation, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks, will host the third annual “World Music Benefit” for UNICEF. The star-studded event raises awareness and…
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Exploring Nonprofit Advocacy Research Methods and Design: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The study of nonprofit advocacy has evolved significantly over the past two decades, yet gaps still remain in our understanding of the processes and roles of nonprofit organizations in policymaking and policy change. In part, these gaps may be exacerbated by limitations in the methodologies and research…
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Dynamic duo getting on their bikes to tackle eating disorders on 29th October
Eating disorders education hub to be launched‘There is a glaring gap where treatment of eating disorders should be in the UK. I know, as I loved exercise too much, combined it with under-eating, and lost the ability to perform for the last three years and jeopardised my health into the bargain. I wouldn’t have done…
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Big Changes and 7 Big Questions for Big Philanthropy
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Meta-analysis of Volunteer Motives Using the Volunteer Functions Inventory to Predict Volunteer Satisfaction, Commitment, and Behavior
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In 2017, about 30% of all U.S. adults volunteered for a total of 6.9 billion hours. This raises the question, why do so many people volunteer? Extant research has produced highly variable estimates of the effect sizes of various motivating factors, and there has been little to…
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Answering some questions about water quality programs
On June 22, we held a virtual event on research into water quality interventions, featuring presentations from Michael Kremer of the University of Chicago’s Development Innovation Lab; Brett Sedgewick from Evidence Action, the parent organization of Dispensers for Safe Water; and Stephan Guyenet, Elie Hassenfeld, and Catherine Hollander of GiveWell. (If you weren’t able to…
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The Opportunity Costs of Volunteering: Evidence From Germany
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study analyzes the effect of opportunity costs on the decision to volunteer, the extent of volunteering, and how opportunity costs are related to competing volunteering activities. Our results reveal that opportunity costs operationalized as net wage per hour had the predicted negative effect on the extent…
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Determinants of Voluntary Organizations’ Attention on Facebook: The Case of Norwegian Voluntary Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. By offering low-cost tools of communication and coordination, social media platforms such as Facebook may constitute a substitute for coordination by means of hierarchical organization. Social media may disrupt, appearing as a “weapon of the weak,” a relationship that has traditionally linked membership to resources and influence.…
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Nonprofit Scandals: A Systematic Review and Conceptual Framework
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. High-profile charity scandals have always represented a threat to the nonprofit sector, which relies on public trust and funding to operate. We systematically review 30 years of empirical research on scandals involving nonprofits and present both quantitative and qualitative syntheses of the 71 articles identified. Informed by…