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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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Boards as an Accountability Mechanism [PDF]

, 2014
Boards are central to the system of nonprofit accountability, but their adequacy has been increasingly questioned by policymakers, media, researchers and others.
Ostrower, Francie Dr.
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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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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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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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How and When Socially Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Organizations Benefit From Adopting Social Alliance Management Routines to Manage Social Alliances? [PDF]

, 2016
Social alliance is defined as the collaboration between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Building on the insights derived from the resource-based theory, we develop a conceptual framework to explain how socially entrepreneurial nonprofit ...
A Madhok, AF Hayes, AM Peredo, AR Andreasen, AR Andreasen, B Arya, B McEvily, BA Lafferty, BA Lafferty, C Fornell, C Homburg, C Liston-Heyes, C Liston-Heyes, Chris Chapleo, D Iacobucci, D Lavie, D Simpson, DA Rondinelli, G Liu, G Liu, G Liu, Gordon Liu, HW Marsh, HW Marsh, IE Berger, IE Berger, J Draulans, J Peloza, J Peloza, J Weerawardena, JA Black, JA Kerlin, JB Barney, JE Austin, JE Austin, JE Austin, JF Hair, JH Dyer, JJ Li, JS Armstrong, JW Selsky, KH Heimeriks, M Runté, ME Sobel, MJ Polonsky, N Mutch, O Schilke, O Schilke, P Kale, P Kale, P Kale, P Kotler, PE Jose, PM Podsakoff, PM Podsakoff, PR Varadarajan, R Abzug, RB Kline, RM Grant, S Adkins, S Hoeffler, S Knox, S Samu, S Samu, S-J Chang, SR Robinson, TK Das, TK Das, W Wymer, Wai Wai Ko   +69 more
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Getting Past “Purposeful”: Exploring Dimensionality in Nonprofit Executive Performance Information Use

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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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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