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Nonprofits as a Resilient Sector: Implications for Public Policy

Nonprofit Policy Forum, 2022
Lester Salamon first characterized nonprofits in the United States as “the resilient sector” in 2003. He based this characterization on the sector’s growth, its ability to adapt to new economic and political conditions over time and its increasingly ...
Young Dennis R.
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Using Self-Assessments to Improve Board Performance and Build Nonprofit Capacity

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2023
This paper presents the nonprofit board self-assessment tool as a valuable, formative addition to the toolkit of nonprofit stakeholders, including evaluators, who are focused on improving both board and organizational performance.
Joanne G. Carman, Judith L. Millesen
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Quality Assurance Translated? Comparing Nonprofit Evaluation Practices in Germany and the United States

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 2023
This article presents findings from a study of management practice in youth career assistance nonprofits in Germany and the United States, focusing on the area of evaluation.
Karl Urban
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Risk Categories and Risk Management Processes in Nonprofit Organizations

Foundations of Management, 2016
The article addresses risk management in nonprofit organizations. This topical issue appears not to have been adequately studied by researchers to date. There are several questions the author of this paper attempts to answer: What are the risk categories
Domański Jarosław
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Nonprofit Economic Development Organizations and the Institutional Arrangement of Local Economic Development

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2018
In the United States, local economic development is increasingly being managed by nonprofit organizations. However, the institutional arrangement of local economic development is an understudied topic in the scholarly literature on nonprofit management ...
William Hatcher, Augustine Hammond
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The The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Co-Production of Welfare Services: A Systematic Literature Review

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2023
This review studies previous research on the role of nonprofit organizations in the co-production of welfare services. The need for the review stems from the lack of systematic literature reviews related to nonprofit organizations, co-production, and ...
Ola Segnestam Larsson
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Classification of Program Activities: How Nonprofits Create Social Value

Administrative Sciences, 2017
This paper defines and describes a framework to classify program activities utilized by nonprofit organizations to achieve public benefit objectives.
William Brown
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What Explained Nonprofit Organizations’ Satisfaction with Volunteer Retention During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate nonprofit organizations’ satisfaction with volunteer retention during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants were 74 nonprofit organizations’ leaders who participated in the online survey.
Suzanna R. Windon, Daniel Robotham, Ann Echols   +2 more
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Non-profit Governance: Twelve Frameworks for Organisations and Research

Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
The following article is a book review of Non-profit Governance: Twelve Frameworks for Organizations and Research. It begins with an overview of main concepts and overarching themes in the book and summarizes chapter-specific material.
Aaron Turpin
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Growing Professionalism in the Services of Nonprofit Organizations [PDF]

Revista de Management Comparat International, 2010
The nonprofit sector today has to meet growing demands for better quality services and growing competition from business and public organizations, and also from other nonprofit organizations.
Katalin DOBRAI , Ferenc FARKAS
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