Tag: volunteer
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Do You Like What You See? How Nonprofit Campaigns With Output, Outcome, and Impact Effectiveness Indicators Influence Charitable Behavior
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This study contributes to recent discussions on voluntary disclosure as a signaling approach among nonprofit organizations and its effects on stakeholders’ decision-making. Focusing on nonprofit program effectiveness, we test how nonprofit campaigns providing information on three effectiveness indicators—outputs, outcomes, and impacts (as part of the logic framework)—influence…
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Facebooking Alone? Millennials’ Use of Social Network Sites and Volunteering
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. The younger generation’s widespread use of online social network sites has raised concerns and debates about social network sites’ influence on this generation’s civic engagement, whether these sites undermine or promote prosocial behaviors. This study empirically examines how millennials’ social network site usage relates to volunteering, using…
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Mission Change Over Time in U.S. Family Foundations
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. How much do foundations change their missions over time? Grant making emphases may shift due to the evolving preferences of trustees and directors, the changing needs of grant recipients, the location of the successor trustees, and so on. A countervailing force to this change is donor control.…
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International Volunteerism and Capacity Development in Nonprofit Organizations of the Global South
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Although international volunteerism has been a part of official development assistance for decades, the capacity development (CD) impacts of such programs in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Global South have received scant attention. This article provides insights into the ways international volunteerism contributes to endogenous CD processes…
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The Policies of Social Innovation: A Cross-National Analysis
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. This article deals with the policy discourse on social innovation at the European Union (EU) level as well as across nine European countries. We perform an exploratory analysis of relevant policy documents focusing on articulated policy authority, suggested actors, and key outcomes of social innovation. We also…
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Relational Work in the Struggle Against Poverty: Balancing Scholarly Critiques and Emancipatory Practices in the Nonprofit Sector
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Among antipoverty nonprofit organizations (NPOs), a significant shift back to “relational work” has been occurring. This form of human services connotes strong bonds and durable engagement with clients on major life changes. Critics have associated such efforts with paternalistic and disciplinary regimes reinforcing broader neoliberal trends. Perhaps…
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The Multidimensional Benefits of University Student Volunteering: Psychological Contract, Expectations, and Outcomes
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Student volunteering has many benefits for students, universities, and nonprofit organizations (NPOs), but research on these from a multistakeholder perspective is scant. Using psychological contract theory, this article compares outcomes to expectations of students, universities, and NPOs, proposing a model of the benefits of volunteering to all…
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International NGO Centralization and Leader-Perceived Effectiveness
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Although international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) rely on their governance structures to pursue crucial missions across national borders, the extant literature is lacking theoretical insights and empirical evidence that explain the influence of such structures on INGO effectiveness. Using organizational and psychological theories, socially constructed effectiveness measurement, and…
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Does Government Funding Make Nonprofits Administratively Inefficient? Revisiting the Link
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. There is widespread concern that government funding bureaucratizes nonprofits and causes them to be administratively inefficient. This study brings together contrasting streams of literature and hypothesizes a curvilinear relationship between government funding and nonprofits’ administrative efficiency. Using a longitudinal dataset of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-registered…
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Understanding Donor-Advised Funds: How Grants Flow During Recessions
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. DAFs receive a growing share of all charitable donations and control a sizable proportion of grants made to other nonprofits. The growth of DAFs has generated controversy over their function as intermediary philanthropic vehicles. Using a…
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How Does NGO Partnering Change Over Time? A Longitudinal Examination of Factors That Influence NGO Partner Selection
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Scholars suggest three partnering strategies that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can use to pursue strategic relationships in civil society networks: (a) the development of overlapping ties associated with network closure, (b) adopting an intermediary role between two disconnected organizations associated with brokerage, and (c) complying with the match-making…
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Book Review: Generation impact: How next gen donors are revolutionizing giving by Goldseker, S., & Moody, M
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Accounting for Volunteers: Enhancing Organizational Accountability and Legitimacy
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Domesticating the Beast: A “Resource Profile” Framework of Power Relations in Nonprofit–Business Collaboration
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Predisposed to Volunteer? Personality Traits and Different Forms of Volunteering
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Influence of Ownership Type and CEO Power on Residual Loss: Evidence From the Global Microfinance Industry
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Building Satisfaction and Loyalty During a Musical Benefit Event: A Consumer-Based Approach
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Use and Perceptions of the Availability of Local Government and Nonprofit Services in Diverse Urban Settings
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Donor Influence on Long-Term Innovation Within Nonprofit Organizations
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Giving Intention Versus Giving Behavior: How Differently Do Satisfaction, Trust, and Commitment Relate to Them?
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