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What are Program Officer’s Responsibilities and Competencies? An Exploratory Research on Human Resource Development Policy for Effective Grantmaking

Nonprofit Policy Forum
The development of human resources is a significant issue in the global nonprofit context, and Japan is no exception with its relatively small philanthropic sector.
Shimizu Junko, Nakajima Takako, Sugano Taku   +2 more
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Bringing Beneficiaries More Centrally Into Nonprofit Management Education and Research

, 2021
In the early 1970s, scholars studying a variety of service organizations realized that beneficiaries were not only external stakeholders who received services but they were also important organizational actors whose participation in the organization ...
Benjamin, Lehn M.
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Policy Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship in the EU: Explaining Structural Policy Change in Pharmaceutical Innovation Incentives and Health Technology Assessment

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs
Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective is an essential read for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in the doing or practice of the nonprofit beyond the more abstract economic sector or discrete organization(s)
Sarah Steimel
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From Ad Hoc to Function: Vancouver Foundation's Journey to Learning Through Evaluation

New Directions for Evaluation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case narrative details the Vancouver Foundation's (VF) journey from ad‐hoc reporting to a core internal learning and evaluation function. Catalyzed by the pandemic and motivated by the increasing need, VF established the Engagement Department to house evaluation independently.
Vincent Tom
wiley   +1 more source

The nonprofit sector in Italy: a definition

, 1997
The chapter defines the concept of nonprofit sector in ...
Barbetta, Gianpaolo
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What Are We Learning About the Research‐Practice Gap From HRD Scholars and HRD Scholar‐Practitioners?

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The research‐practice gap (the gap) in HRD remains a significant challenge, hindering the application of academic research to practice and the integration of workplace challenges into research efforts. It is critical for HRD research to address the gap to develop evidence‐based solutions for learning and organizational performance. The purpose
Kelly Moore, Yonjoo Cho
wiley   +1 more source

Account Space: How Accountability Requirements Shape Nonprofit Practice

, 2008
Improving nonprofit accountability is one of the most important issues facing the sector. Improving nonprofit accountability in ways that are attentive to what we might consider unique and valuable about how nonprofits address public problems is the ...
Benjamin, Lehn M.
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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

Nonprofit Organizations and the Intersectoral Division of Labor in the Arts [PDF]

This paper takes stock of what we know about the role of nonprofit enterprise in the production and distribution of the arts (broadly defined), primarily in the United States.
Paul DiMaggio
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