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Social Impact Bonds and the Perils of Aligned Interests
Administrative Sciences, 2017 Social impact bonds (SIBs) have been welcomed enthusiastically as a new funding tool for social innovation, yet also condemned as an instrument that neglects beneficiaries’ and taxpayers’ interests, opening profit opportunities in the field of social ...
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer
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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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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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Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2020 Although performance information use (PIU) among public managers is a growing and increasingly relevant research area, the existing evidence base has two significant limitations for those interested in its application to nonprofit executives.
Clare FitzGerald
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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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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 +2 more
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Non-profit Governance: Twelve Frameworks for Organisations and Research
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy ResearchThe 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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