Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This paper explores a notable paradox in nonprofit advocacy: nonprofit leaders frequently claim in surveys and interviews that they do not engage in advocacy or lobbying, but many of them often report conducting activities that qualify as such. This …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examines the role of social signaling in charitable giving on a green crowdfunding platform. Using a dataset linking survey responses on motivations and social signaling with real donation data from a German platform, we examine how reported …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The scaling of third-sector organizations (TSOs) in terms of the number of beneficiaries they serve and/or the range and quality of contributions they offer is generally assumed to be a desirable aim. At the same time, many TSOs are embedded in local …    Goto full post…

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Even as climate change brings more extreme weather and threatens nonprofit service continuity, the organizations that respond to local disasters vary considerably in how much risk reduction they carry out. Theories of protection motivation and planned …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This research note examines how volunteering has been defined and measured in Australia since the 1970s, and how those choices shape what becomes visible in policy and statistics. Drawing on a historical analysis of national surveys, government reports, …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The COVID-19 pandemic constituted an unprecedented exogenous shock to many nonprofit organizations, testing their ability to sustain operations and adapt to crises. Building on population ecology and nonprofit organizational resilience framework, this …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article develops a framework to better understand philanthropic donations and volunteering among those who have left religion by testing interactions among four dimensions of religiosity (i.e., beliefs, values/morals, spiritual practices/rituals, and …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Arts organizations face intense competition for private support, making effective donor segmentation essential. While attendance frequency is a well-known correlate of giving, little research has quantified the role of event variety—the breadth of …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. How do nonprofits use language to attract donors and volunteers? We investigate how nonprofits attract these resources by framing emotion and cognition in descriptions of their activities to make them optimally distinctive compared to their peers. We …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article reconstructs the ethical architecture of Islamic philanthropy through qualitative thematic content analysis of Qur’anic and Prophetic sources. While existing scholarship documents important elements of Islamic giving, the ethical foundations …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study examined how the satisfaction and frustration of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and beneficence (the sense of prosocial impact) relate to volunteer well-being (meaningfulness of volunteer work, volunteer satisfaction, and general well-being)…    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. While a growing body of research has examined the features of nonprofit donation appeals on social media and online user comments, little is known about how specific message constructs shape the content of user responses. Drawing on a large-scale dataset …    Goto full post >>

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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. In the United States, a substantial share of philanthropic giving supports educational causes, yet comparatively little is known about donations made by parents and families to K–12 education. Drawing on a nationally representative survey of 2,474 parents …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The tension between social mission and organizational efficiency in nonprofit organizations is evident in various operational practices, particularly fundraising. In pursuit of greater efficiency, some nonprofits outsource this critical function to …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Although some evidence suggests that homemakers may engage more in formal volunteering than employed women, the pattern remains inconclusive, and the influence of time and place is understudied. This study investigates: “How does volunteering behavior of …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. When older adults volunteer, they benefit not only the community but also themselves. However, little is known about volunteering behaviors outside upper-income countries. This study collected data from a national sample of Belizean adults aged 60 to 74. …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Convincing individuals to donate is a challenge for nonprofit organizations. This research builds on the concept ofmoral balanceto examine the asymmetric effects of prior moral actions on individuals’ likelihood of donating. Through five experiments, we …    Goto full post >>

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Volunteers play a central role in contemporary society, yet the value created through their contributions remains fragmented across academic literatures. Drawing on a systematic literature review of 146 academic articles, this study provides a …    Goto full post >>