Nonprofit organizational effectiveness: Analysis of best practices

KC Liket, K Maas - Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In the face of increased accountability pressures, nonprofits are searching for ways to
demonstrate their effectiveness. Because meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are …

A century of nonprofit studies: Scaling the knowledge of the field

J Ma, S Konrath - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and …, 2018 - Springer
This empirical study examines knowledge production between 1925 and 2015 in nonprofit
and philanthropic studies from quantitative and thematic perspectives. Quantitative results …

A survey of voluntaristics: Research on the growth of the global, interdisciplinary, socio-behavioral science field and emergent inter-discipline

DH Smith - Voluntaristics Review, 2016 - brill.com
The author founded the organized, global, interdisciplinary, socio-behavioral science field of
voluntaristics (a 2013 neologism by the author) in 1971, with his formation and …

Class diversity and youth volunteering in the United Kingdom: Applying Bourdieu's habitus and cultural capital

J Dean - Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article utilizes Pierre Bourdieu's theories of habitus and cultural capital to offer some
explanation as to why there is a lack of class diversity in formal volunteering in the United …

Bridging or deepening the digital divide: Influence of household internet access on formal and informal volunteering

J Piatak, N Dietz, B McKeever - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The digital divide persists; a quarter of the US population is unconnected, left without
Internet access at home. Yet volunteer recruitment is increasingly moving online to reach a …

A review of sexual harassment prevention practices: Toward a nonprofit research agenda

EE Beaton, M LePere-Schloop… - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Sexual harassment has garnered renewed attention with a wave of allegations against high
profile men, including nonprofit executives. Given its legal, organizational, and ethical …

The champion effect in peer-to-peer giving: Successful campaigns highlight fundraisers more than causes

CM Chapman, BM Masser… - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Online peer-to-peer giving is an emerging charity context that has rarely been investigated.
Using a unique combination of survey and behavioral data from 1,647 online peer-to-peer …

“Mo” together or alone? Investigating the role of fundraisers' networks in online peer-to-peer fundraising

A Priante, ML Ehrenhard… - Nonprofit and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In online peer-to-peer fundraising, individual fundraisers, acting on behalf of nonprofit
organizations, mobilize their social networks using social media to request donations …

The nexus of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies: An empirical map** of research topics and knowledge integration

M LePere‐Schloop, R Nesbit - Public Administration Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The interdisciplinary fields of public administration (PA), public policy studies (PP), and
nonprofit studies (nonprofit) all contribute to our understanding of public affairs, but the …

Consensus formation in nonprofit and philanthropic studies: Networks, reputation, and gender

J Ma, R Bekkers - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The research field of nonprofits and philanthropy has grown exponentially. To what extent
do nonprofit scholars share a common language? Answering this question is crucial to …