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Virtually Raising the Paddle: Examining the Role of Online Nonprofit Dialogic Stewardship and Identification in the Post-COVID Era
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. COVID-19 lockdowns required charitable nonprofits to virtually engage donors during restrictions on in-person gatherings, yet limited research has examined how online events convey stewardship. This study aims to understand how virtual events impact donor … Goto full post >>
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Multichannel Philanthropists Versus Cash Contributors: Segmenting Charitable Donors in the Digital Age
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Recent years have witnessed a radical shift towards digital charitable giving. Existing studies typically investigate a single donation channel, coming at the expense of a more holistic understanding of donor channel preferences. The current study seeks … Goto full post >>
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The Help-Seeking Preferences of Participants in Social Enterprises: Does Control Matter?
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Research on social enterprises has primarily emphasized organizational performance and social impact, while participants’ experiences remain underexplored. This study first conducted a scoping review of the current social enterprise literature and … Goto full post >>
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Intra-Group and Inter-Group Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding: Insights from Stratification Economics
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Recent research has increasingly examined nonprofit funding disparities between White and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, especially after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. However, limited attention has been paid to funding … Goto full post >>
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Futures Thinking: Building Proactive Resilience in Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In an era of heightened uncertainty, nonprofits face complex risks that challenge their mission-driven work, making resilience more essential than ever. Existing research on nonprofit resilience, however, tends to adopt a reactive lens, focusing on post-… Goto full post >>
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Having Less But Giving More: Evidence From China
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The impact of income placement on the percentage of income given has been widely studied in developed countries, but little attention has been given to the issue in developing countries. We investigate the variance in the giving/income share among … Goto full post >>
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No Gifts, No Strings: How a Good Cause Stands on Its Own
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Volunteers are vital for nonprofit organizations, yet recruiting them remains a challenge. This study evaluates two common strategies – Gift-Exchange and the Foot-in-the-Door (FITD) technique – in recruiting episodic volunteers. In a field experiment with … Goto full post >>
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Book Review: Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of service, by Mohan, J.
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From Service to Sector: Early-Adulthood Volunteering as a Pathway into Nonprofit and Public Employment
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Nonprofit, public, and private employees display theoretically and empirically distinct characteristics. An important branch of this research investigates differences in prosocial behaviors given a sector of employment, but findings often model prosocial … Goto full post >>
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To Be Experienced or to Be Innovative? Signals Influencing Nonprofit Start-Ups’ Philanthropic Funding Acquisition
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Prior research has illuminated how emerging and new nonprofit organizations struggle to garner financial resources, including philanthropic funding. Yet, few studies have examined how nonprofit start-ups are able to overcome this “liability of newness” … Goto full post >>
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Touching Art and Technological Innovation Management Models for a More Inclusive Society: Theory and Practice
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The study addresses the issue of technology and social inclusion within tactile museums, as cultural institutions that have an exhibition structure in which art can be enjoyed through touch. The aim of the work is to investigate the relationship between … Goto full post >>
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Book Review: Participatory grantmaking in philanthropy: How democratizing decision-making shifts power to communities, by Gibson, C. M., Cardona, C., McGinnis Johnson, J., & Suárez, D.
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The Nonprofit, That’s Us: Linking Organizational Identity and Identification in Social Mission-Based Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The relationship between organizational identity and organizational identification has received limited scholarly attention. For many nonprofits, however, especially social mission-based organizations, the relationship is of critical importance. To … Goto full post >>
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Give Me Some Slack: Donor Advised Fund Granting During Crises
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In 2020, the philanthropic sector faced unprecedented demands as it responded to the global pandemic and urgent calls for racial and social justice. Early evidence indicated that US-based donors using donor advised funds (DAFs) responded to those demands … Goto full post >>
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The Diversity Layer: The Role of Coalitions Among Civil Society Organizations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Some theorists argue that civil society organizations (CSOs) can knit together diverse societies by assembling demographically different individuals. CSO core participants (staff, board members, and engaged volunteers) are, however, often demographically … Goto full post >>
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Organizing Civility: Bridging Practices in Islamic Welfare Organization
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) occupy an ambivalent position in civic life, often bridging divides while also reproducing boundaries. This study examines how Saylani Welfare Trust, a major Islamic welfare organization in Pakistan, organizes civility … Goto full post >>
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Changes in Volunteering Landscape in South Korea During COVID-19: Trajectories of Volume and Engagement Patterns
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the global volunteer sector, yet its long-term impacts remain insufficiently explored. This study uses 4.7 million records from the 1365 Volunteer Portal (2019–2022) to examine formal volunteering trends in … Goto full post >>
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Effects of Different Leadership Styles on Workers in Ukrainian Non-Profit Organisations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines the relationship between leadership styles (transformational, empowering, servant) of Ukrainian non-profit organisation (NPO) managers and two employee outcomes, self-reported behaviour and commitment to change. A questionnaire … Goto full post >>
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Retaining Volunteers Through Political Economic Change: Austerity, Boundary Work, and the Making of an Unpaid Workforce in Newcastle’s Parks
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article is concerned with the persistence and transformations of local authority ‘in-house’ volunteering programs—which integrate volunteers recruited in a personal capacity in the delivery of local services—during the United Kingdom’s 2010–2020 … Goto full post >>
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NGO–Government Relations in States With Weak Institutions: Avoiding the State While Supplementing Resource Gaps
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Those working in the NGO space continue efforts to expand the set of government–nonprofit relationship types and strategies that comparative scholars may utilize so that researchers in diverse contexts have a more comprehensive toolbox for identifying … Goto full post >>

