Category: Feeds
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Corrigendum to Are You Ready: Financial Management, Operating Reserves, and the Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofits
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Goto full post >>
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Risking Your Health to Help Others: The Effect of Pandemic Severity on Volunteering
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic affected the provision of voluntary work across the globe. We study informal volunteers who buy and deliver groceries for people in a high-risk group or in quarantine. Using data from a volunteering grocery delivering app in Switzerland that coordinated these volunteers, we are able…
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Nonprofit Boards in Pursuit of Innovation for Growth: Views From the Frontline
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Conventional thinking holds that for-profits need to innovate for growth to be financially viable. Nevertheless, to date, we have not recognized the importance of nonprofit growth and innovation’s function here. Yet despite “innovation for growth” being an even greater imperative for nonprofits in their quest to resolve…
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Various Forms of Generosity Matter, But Let’s Not Lose Sight of Charitable Giving
The post Various Forms of Generosity Matter, But Let’s Not Lose Sight of Charitable Giving appeared first on The Center for Effective Philanthropy. Goto full post >>
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Nonprofit Organizational Identification, Moral License, and Whiteness: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonprofit Work on the White Morality Myth
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Moral license researchers find that White people more readily agree with racial discrimination after interacting with nonprofits, but nonprofit organizations often support racial diversity. This study explores whether White nonprofit workers who are prompted to describe their work will identify with the equality espousals of their employers…
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Using Grantee Feedback as a Guide: One Funder’s Experience Between Two GPRs
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Demographic Heterogeneity, Political Ideology, and Nonprofit Dissolution
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The dissolution of nonprofit organizations has been increasingly documented by scholars in recent decades. Within this body of literature, how nonprofits’ community environments affect their dissolution has not been extensively studied. This research combines a range of data sources to conduct a longitudinal analysis (2007–2015) of how…
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Foundation Changes in Response to Pandemic Corroborated in CEP’s Grantee Perception Report
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The Influence of Parenting Styles on Early Adolescence Volunteering
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Volunteer work among early adolescents has been largely neglected as a research topic. This study examines the influence parents have on their children’s volunteer activities when they are between 10 and 15, with a special focus on the difference made by parental styles. Data are drawn from…
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Values, Performance, or Both? How Values-Focused Work Can Benefit From Results-Based Management
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. While results-based performance measurement has become a common practice in governing relationships with external stakeholders, many nonprofits are struggling with severe tensions when implementing results-based management practices inside the organization. This article draws on performance management research in accounting and management to analyze why results-based management poses…
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Why we’re funding clubfoot treatment through MiracleFeet
For many people, GiveWell is practically synonymous with our short list of top charities. But the amount of money we’ve sent to other organizations, doing other important work, has been increasing. In 2021, we made or recommended about $190 million in grants to non–top charity programs, like water treatment and malnutrition treatment, and in 2022,…
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Spreading the News: Donor Response to Disclosures About Nonprofit Fraud
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Even the most conscientious nonprofit organizations can fall victim to fraud. We examine how a nonprofit organization’s Form 990 disclosures and media coverage about an asset diversion influence subsequent donor support. Consistent with a loss in trust, we observe a decrease in donations following a diversion. This…