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Feeding the Flock: The Role of the Revenue Portfolio in the Financial Growth of Congregations and Religious Organizations

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been fewer population‐level studies of religious organization revenues compared to other nonprofit organizations. This discrepancy is due to the exemption of houses of worship from filing the U.S. Form 990, which is the basis for most nonprofit financial analysis in academic literature.
Elizabeth A. M. Searing, Nathan J. Grasse, R. Regina Cline   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing the decision optimization of interaction design in sustainable healthcare with improved artificial bee colony algorithm and generative artificial intelligence. [PDF]

PLoS One
Yu S, Guan X, Peng X, Zeng Y, Wang Z, Liang X, Qin T, Zhou X.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward a Framework for Understanding Localization in Its Institutional Context: A Systems Perspective for Incorporating Local Values

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how we might integrate local traditional values into a systems approach for analyzing and maximizing localization in the context of foreign aid. The paper situates localization and its operationalization in the older and broader literature on the political economy of foreign aid.
Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Topical Collection: Changing Values and Energy Systems. [PDF]

Sci Eng Ethics
Alleblas J, Melnyk A, van de Poel I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
wiley   +1 more source

Social prescribing to improve health and well-being of patients presenting with non-medical health related social needs in primary care: Study protocol of a multi-center randomized controlled pragmatic feasibility trial. [PDF]

PLoS One
Napierala H, Jeske N, Roll S, Köberlein-Neu J, Herrmann WJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Localization Through Coordination? Implementing the Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a global concept and initiative, the Humanitarian‐Development‐Peace Nexus (HDPN) aims to improve integration across the traditionally siloed humanitarian, development, and security sectors, while foregrounding the involvement of local actors.
Marie‐Eve Desrosiers, Haley J. Swedlund   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do We Understand Unmet Need? A Proposal to Use Length-Of-Life Equivalent (LOLE) as a Patient-Centric Measure of Unmet Need. [PDF]

Pharmacoecon Open
Marsh K, Reynolds RF, Nelsen L, Watt S, Escontrías OA, Hauber B.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Validation of an Existing Racial and Ethnic Microaggressions Scale Within the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The local government workplace in post‐apartheid South Africa represents an important environment to examine employee perceptions on the occurrence of microaggressions. However, since the advent of democracy in 1994, the country has faced numerous challenges in its quest for the implementation of rights pertaining to unity, diversity ...
Marié Oosthuizen, Michel Tshiyoyo, Lianne Malan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source