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Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Built to Last: Our Legacy and Our Future -- Nonprofits and the Regional Economy [PDF]

, 2006
In 2003, The Forbes Funds surveyed the population of nonprofits in Allegheny County.In 2006, The Forbes Funds again commissioned the Allegheny County Nonprofit Benchmark Survey, and, upon receiving responses, called upon researchers from Carnegie Mellon ...
Greg Lagana, Jerry Paytas
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Evaluating Youth Participatory Action Research in the Americas: Comparative Insights on Empowerment, Methodologies, and Social Change

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
John Diaz, Paola Velasquez Quintero, Cody Gusto, Ivan Muñoz‐Echeverri, Camilo Norena Herrera, Laura Valencia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Community Leadership Project 2.0: Midpoint Report [PDF]

, 2015
The Community Leadership Project (CLP) is a collaborative effort between the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to build the capacity of small, community-based organizations ...
Allie Bollella, Hanh Cao Yu, Jennifer Henderson-Frakes, Traci Endo Inouye   +3 more
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The situational Samaritan: How group reputation threat shapes reparatory behavior

Journal of Consumer Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Consumers often act to correct the wrongdoings of people close to them, such as family members or friends. The current research demonstrates that consumers may also engage in a variety of reparatory behaviors—from a simple apology to gift‐giving and tipping—to counter the misdeeds of in‐group strangers when their behavior threatens the ...
Julia Von Schuckmann, Lucia S. G. Barros, Grant E. Donnelly, Marco Bertini   +3 more
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The Double‐Edged Sword of Servant Leadership: Motivational Climates, Helping Behavior, and Financial Performance

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on the effects of servant leadership on firm success has yielded inconsistent results. Connecting servant leadership theory to achievement goal theory, we theorize that servant leadership exerts both beneficial and detrimental effects on firms by shaping two distinct motivational climates: mastery climate and performance climate ...
Therese Egeland, Alexander Madsen Sandvik, Vidar Schei, Claudia Buengeler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An evaluation program for nonprofit recreation organizations

, 1983
Increasing costs and declining resources have resulted in emphasis placed on evaluation and measurement of effectiveness and efficiency of Morale, Welfare, and Recreation organizations. This thesis addresses the requirement for evaluation, the construction of measures of output, effectiveness, and efficiency and the development of an evaluation program
openaire   +1 more source

The Skills to Pay the Bills: An Evaluation of an Effort to Help Nonprofits Manage Their Finances [PDF]

, 2015
This study examines a Wallace Foundation-sponsored initiative aimed at improving the financial management skills and practices of 25 Chicago afterschool providers through training and coaching.
Angela Rojas, Jean Grossman, Karen Walker, Kristine Andrews, Nicholas Carrington   +4 more
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Sharing Good News at Work to Collaborate and to Self‐Enhance: A Motivational and Reputational Perspective on Workplace Interpersonal Capitalization

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employees routinely experience work‐related positive events. In the wake of these events, employees sometimes share the good news with coworkers—a phenomenon known as workplace interpersonal capitalization. Research shows that such capitalization matters for how employees feel and act.
Trevor Watkins, Ji Koung Kim, Anthony C. Klotz, Satish Krishnan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

270 WomenWise: Bridging translational science, empowerment, and capacity building for patient-centered research on alcohol misuse

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Objectives/Goals: 1. Build a network of stakeholders (WomenWise) empowered as a Community Advisory Board (CAB). 2. Expand knowledge about patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and comparative effectiveness research (CER), specifically related to ...
Hannah Kolarik, Christopher Plapparampil, Benny, Brianna N. Tranby, MN Tommi Thompson, Kasey R. Boehmer, MN Alanna M. Chamberlain, MN Christi, A. Patten, MN Pravesh Sharma   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source