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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton, Michelle Benson, Chao Guo, Daniel G. Neely, Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Shujie Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change. [PDF]

Commun Psychol
Cutler J, Contreras-Huerta LS, Todorova B, Nitschke J, Michalaki K, Koppel L, Gkinopoulos T, Vogel TA, Lamm C, Västfjäll D, Tsakiris M, Apps MAJ, Lockwood PL.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Opening the Black Box of Nonprofit Reputation and Volunteer Attraction With Supervised Machine Learning

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the aim to explore the potential of machine learning for nonprofit research, this article contrasts traditional linear regression with four contemporary supervised machine learning approaches. Concretely, we predict (1) reputation ratings and (2) the total number of volunteers for 4021 non‐profit organizations in the U.S.
Moritz Schmid, Hannes Lampe, Jurgen Willems   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming stroke care in Africa: Early initiatives of a UK-based charity

Godwin Ogbole, Rufus Akinyemi, Joyce S. Balami, Gabriele C. DeLuca, Yaria Joseph, Adesola Adepoju, Margaret M. Esiri   +6 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Crisis Preparation, Capacity Building, and Community Resilience: Lessons From Maui

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 Maui wildfires provide a unique context to explore the impact of nonprofit crisis networks taking a proactive role in community crisis response, leveraging resources, expertise, and networks. The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation (HCF) has been a key player in Maui's local response, providing critical support, mobilizing volunteers, and ...
Lauren Azevedo, Kaila Witkowski, Ratna Dougherty, Christa Remington   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Susan E. Dinan : Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France. The Early History of the Daughters of Charity

, 2007
Christian Große
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Fundraising as Contracting: Why Nonprofits Accept In‐Kind Donations

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In‐kind (nonmonetary) donations are a popular form of philanthropy that have received much less scholarly attention than monetary gifts. This study documents the prevalence of types of in‐kind giving and associated organizational practices, then explores links between the perceptions of nonprofit managers, organizational practices, and ...
Elizabeth Searing, Sarah Jacobson, Angela de Oliveira, Tianyi Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Germline duplication of MYCN predisposes to childhood embryonal tumours. [PDF]

EBioMedicine
Taylor CA, May P, Stone TJ, Ahmed M, Chowdhury T, Tweddle DA, Wilson S, Hanscombe K, Hutchinson JC, Pickles JC, Sebire NJ, Jacques TS.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The decoupling of organizations: Organizational operation under the non-coordinating constraint: A framework for studying the relationship between China's charity organizations and the government

, 2016
Kai Tian
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Toward a Framework for Understanding Localization in Its Institutional Context: A Systems Perspective for Incorporating Local Values

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
wiley   +1 more source