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Scaling Social Impact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
It is said that a good metaphor frees the mind . . . then imprisons it. The metaphor of business as a model for the nonprofit sector seems to be tracing this proverbial path.
Mark R. Kramer
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Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Nonprofits More Effective: Performance Management and Performance Appraisals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Performance management and performance appraisals have long been regarded as key for effective strategic human resource management (SHRM) in the for-profit sector.
Kennedy, Troy, Walk, Marlene
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An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field‐Level Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often.
Barman, Emily
core   +2 more sources

Associations between inclusive community coalition leadership and use of evidence‐based practices

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Community coalitions have the potential to elicit diverse participants' perspectives on complex issues and generate shared commitment to adaptive strategies. Ideally, these approaches have been found effective elsewhere. Despite evidence that leadership plays a generally important role in coalitions, there have been limited prior findings ...
Rebecca Wells   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Care of North Carolina: Putting Health Reform Ideas Into Practice in Medicaid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Summarizes assessments of how an enhanced medical home model of care that involves local nonprofit community networks and emphasizes care coordination, disease and care management, and quality improvement has affected cost savings and quality of ...
Samantha Artiga
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The lack of legal protections in the United States to prevent commercializing the dead for education and research: Consequences and risks to anatomists

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract A lack of minimum legal standards for body donation programs undermines recent strides by anatomy professionals to promote ethical best practices in the United States (US). In particular, the commercialization of the dead by nontransplant tissue banks poses a risk to the public trust in academic body donation programs.
Laura E. Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional factors influencing knowledge production for practice: Evidence from nonprofit studies.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
This study theorizes and tests an institutional-logics framework to explain why some universities produce more practice-oriented peer-reviewed journal articles than others, using nonprofit studies as an example.
Ji Ma, Joycelyn Ovalle, Yan Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Legislating the Normative Environment: Nonprofit Governance, SarbanesOxley and UPMIFA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Regulation of nonprofit investment and governance practices has migrated from traditional common-law principles to codified statutory law, affecting areas of nonprofit governance not addressed in the original legislation.
William F. Jarvis
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Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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