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Movement Disorders, EarlyView.Abstract Background Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a cytosine‐adenine‐guanine (CAG) repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. The disease exhibits sex‐related differences in symptomatology and disease progression, but the effect on brain structural biomarkers and the interaction between sex and CAG‐age ...
Jingwen Yao +10 more
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Refashioning my career with community in mind [PDF]
Plans change. Elizabeth Hart was in law school preparing for further career development when she decided to launch an independent nonprofit organization to help women move from welfare to work.
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Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Refugee aid organizations depend to a large extent on volunteers. These organizations have difficulties retaining volunteers. The question then is: what can refugee aid organizations do to keep their' volunteers inside? Prior work suggests that satisfaction with the organization and motivations to continue volunteering may be of particular ...
Maikel Meijeren +2 more
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter +2 more
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Establishing Reciprocity as A Dimension of Nonprofit Entrepreneurial Orientation
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces and characterizes reciprocity as a distinct sixth dimension of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) within nonprofit organizations (NPOs), specifically Brazilian Medical Associations (BMAs). Through a qualitative exploratory study using 16 BMAs as units of analysis and data from 11 in‐depth interviews with nonprofit sector ...
Fabricio Martins Lacerda +2 more
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Righting Past Wrongs Through Restorative Justice: Managerial Motivations for Collaboration
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nonprofits are crucial to state collaborations as their embedded nature in communities allows them to gain the trust necessary to facilitate change and enhance strengths. As nonprofits collaborate with the public sector to tackle systemic challenges, understanding managerial motivations for collaboration and implications for social change is ...
Kara L. Lawrence +2 more
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Innovation in Rural Nonprofits: Which Organizational Capacities Matter Most?
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research note draws on theory and empirical research from the broader fields of management, organizational capacity, and innovation to examine how specific organizational capacities relate to innovation in a sample of 107 rural nonprofit organizations in a Southeastern U.S. state.
Kristina Jaskyte +2 more
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Targeting of and outreach to the poor by rural development nonprofit organizations in Cameroon [PDF]
The importance of nonprofit organizations such as rural development organizations, farmers associations and common initiative groups as drivers of change in rural areas has been generally recognized in the economics of nonprofit organizations.
Balgah, Azibo Roland +1 more
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Walking a Tightrope: Managerial Response Strategies in NPO‐Business Partnerships That Face a Scandal
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When one of the partners in a non‐profit organization (NPO)–business partnership is involved in a scandal, allied partner managers need to walk on a tightrope to respond to the situation. Knowledge is limited about the factors that influence their response decisions to continue or exit the partnership.
Gabi Spitz +2 more
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