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Advantage, Incumbent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Highlights findings on the advantage incumbents and those with fundraising success had in the 2002, 2004, and 2006 state legislative races, as well as the correlation between the two advantages.
Scott Jordan
core  

Localizing Efforts to Prevent Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Aid: Evolving Experiences of Power and Agency in Lebanon

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efforts to address gender‐based violence in humanitarian settings increasingly call for recognition of and funding to local women‐led organizations and women's rights organizations for long‐term response. The Empowered Aid initiative seeks to address sexual exploitation and abuse by working with local organizations as well as the refugee women
Jihan Kaisi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Rapids: How Non‐Governmental Organization Managers Develop Strategic Adaptation to Repressive Political Environments

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the management adaptation strategies non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) managers employ in order to operate in repressive political environments. It answers the question: how do NGO managers initiate, manage and sustain internal change when the political/regulatory environment changes?
Charles Kaye‐Essien   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Drives Venture Capital Fundraising? [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine the determinants of venture capital fundraising in the U.S. over the past twenty-five years. We study industry aggregate, state-level, and firm-specific fundraising to determine if macroeconomic, regulatory, or performance factors affect ...
Josh Lerner, Paul A. Gompers
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Leveraging the Potential of Public Food Procurement to Achieve Multiple Food System Outcomes: Insights From a Policy Analysis in Australia

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government food procurement investment offers significant potential to advance health and sustainability goals; yet, integrating these dimensions into policy design has proved challenging. We mapped and analysed 38 food procurement and catering‐specific policies in Australia to identify ways to strengthen policy design: 20 governing ...
Carolina Venegas Hargous   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Brisk Financing of Education: University Education and State Matching Funds Programs in International Comparison

open access: yesAstra Salvensis, 2019
This paper presents recent developments in the field of university-wide promotional and state matching funds programs. The international comparison shows that above all, such institutions are successful in fundraising, have well-resourced fundraising ...
Gulzhan ISATAYEVA   +5 more
doaj  

How Donor Advised Funds Change Fundraising

open access: yesAdministrative Sciences
The rapid proliferation of donor advised funds (DAFs) and the rising prominence of their sponsoring organizations are among the most disruptive innovations in philanthropy in recent years.
H. Daniel Heist   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Funding, Competition and the Efficiency of NGOs: An Empirical Analysis of Non-charitable Expenditure of US NGOs Engaged in Foreign Aid [PDF]

open access: yes
We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Nunnenkamp, Peter, Öhler, Hannes
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Keeping the Faith : Origins of Confidence in Charitable Organizations and its Consequences for Philanthropy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Origins and consequences of charitable confidence are investigated with the Giving in the Netherlands Panel Survey 2002-2004 (n=1,246). Charitable confidence is higher among the higher educated, children of volunteers, younger age groups, those with more
Bekkers, René
core   +1 more source

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