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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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The Gendered Pathways Into Giving and Volunteering: Similar or Different Across Countries?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. There has been a steady increase in research studying the role of gender in prosocial behavior, such as charitable giving and volunteering. We provide an extensive review of the interdisciplinary literature and derive hypotheses about three different pathways that lead men and women to differ in their…
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Elevating the Conversation
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5 Hopes for Philanthropy and Nonprofits
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No Strings Attached: Philanthropy, Race, and Donor Control From Black Power to Black Lives Matter
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines a moment of crisis and experimentation in philanthropy from the late 1960s to analyze how race shapes philanthropy. Specifically, it considers two giving circles in Boston launched as a linked funding initiative to address economic and racial inequality: (a) a group of wealthy, White…
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Civil Society and Philanthropy in Africa: Parallels, Paradoxes and Promise
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Civil society and philanthropy in Africa are regularly theorized in formal terms and oft perceived as inherently democratizing forces. Yet, existing evidence exposes the limitations of these assumptions. This article provides an introduction to the symposium issue on civil society and philanthropy in Africa. The objective of…
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Capital Structure and Debt Maturity in Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article examines the capital structure and debt maturity in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). In particular, we analyze whether these financing decisions are made as expected according to the two main theories used to explain the capital structure, that is, the trade-off and pecking order theories. To do…
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Evolving Crisis and Changing Networks: NGOs’ Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Refugee Crisis
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) increasingly utilize social media for strategic stakeholder engagement. This study proposes a network-oriented theoretical framework to understand how NGOs’ engagement with complex networks of stakeholders on the global refugee issue varies as the issue moves from low to high public attention stages. We draw…