Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

The 1??5??th EIASM Workshop on the Challenges of Manging the Third Sector is coming to Durham, UK ????? ????Interested? Submit your abstract or full paper by the deadline? Submission deadline for abstracts:?April 25, 2025 The workshop organisers are particularly interested in the results of #managerial, #economic, #policy and #interdisciplinary approaches that explore the contemporary challenges in managing #Third_Sector_Organisations (#TSOs) Topics of potential interest include, but are not limited to: ? ? #Reflections on crisis and third-sector creative responses. ? #Managerial challenges of TSOs and how they can adapt and prosper. ? #Accountability processes that seek to build (or rebuild) trust and confidence in individual TSOs, subsectors of the third sector, and in the sector as a whole.? ? The #challenges of maintaining service delivery, #governance, and #advocacy in light of growing contextual demands. ? Emerging trends in #power and #politics that impact #charitable_services - tools and tactics to adapt, absorb and transform. ? #Hybrid worlds: adapting to new ways of working and #fund_raising. ? Navigating #financial_disasters while protecting key services for beneficiaries. ? Developing #financial_resilience capabilities in a changed landscape.? ? The effects of #scandals, #trust, and #funding_crises on the third sector. ? The role of #accounting and #financial_measures in helping TSOs to set and achieve #SDGs. ? Re-imagining #service_delivery with a look at the future.? ? Reconceptualising service delivery – capacity building through cross-sector partnerships. ? Co-design and co-delivery of #community_services. ? The role of #governance_systems and #structures in the third sector.? ? How TSOs size affects their #management and #operation. The #workshop will be of interest not only to #researchers active in this area, but also to #policymakers, #senior_managers, and #practitioners from all disciplines. ??Durham, United Kingdom ???June 23-23, 2025 ?? More information: https://lnkd.in/dm5KmKsP ??SPECIAL ISSUE?? A selection of the #best_papers will be eligible for submission to a #dedicated_symposium in?Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly?(NVSQ) _____________________ Noel Hyndman, Mariann Liguori, Marc Jegers, Henry Midgley Durham University Business School

I am very grateful to say that our article is now published open access at Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly! Written together with coauthors Rene Bekkers and Peer Scheepers, we investigate how changes in the life course are related to changes in volunteering for humanitarian organizations. Building on the increased awareness that participation in volunteering is a dynamic process, we find that the volunteer pool of humanitarian organizations is volatile, indicating that the solid core of stayers is small. Most life course changes in people’s lives do not (directly) relate to individuals’ voluntary behavior regarding starting humanitarian volunteering. In contrast, comparisons between respondents are more in line with our hypotheses. I am very proud of our achievement, as the publishing process can be difficult and accompanied with disappointments. So let's celebrate this one! The article can be found here: ?? https://lnkd.in/g_RtEGtf

??How do business cycles influence nonprofit revenue portfolios? New Open Access Publication in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly! In "Nonprofit Revenue Portfolios and Exposure to Business Cycle Risk", Travis St. Clair (NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service) and I (UT Dallas Public and Nonprofit Management at School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at UT Dallas) look at the relationship between business cycles and different types of nonprofit income, such as donations and program fees. Not only does the business cycle influence these types differently, but the more of one type you include in your portfolio, the more that relationship sways the entire portfolio. ?? Takeaway: Be aware of business cycle risk to your revenues! https://lnkd.in/gNMPMpHx

New #OnlineFirst & #OpenAccess in #NVSQ! Organizing #Transgender People: Toward a Process-Based Theory of Representative Bureaucracy - Roshni Narendran, Eddy Ng, & Shamika Almeida https://lnkd.in/e4fh8DSZ

HARNESSING SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION IN FUNDRAISING Our new research on the role of identification in charitable giving has just been published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. I've recorded a short video to summarize our key findings and give ideas to fundraisers and nonprofit managers about how they can effectively harness identification in their campaigns. Briefly, we meta-analyzed 40 years of research and found a significant positive relationship between social identification and charitable giving (r=.29, for the nerds). This means about 8% of the observed variance in people's charitable decisions could be explained by variation in identification with relevant targets. Testing Charitable Triad Theory, we found that identification with (1) other donors, (2) beneficiaries, and (3) fundraising organizations were all equally important. In the video, I give ideas for how each may be leveraged by fundraisers. The strength of identification (i.e., how strongly one identifies with the target) was more important than merely sharing a social identity with the target (e.g., both being from the same country). Also, effects were smaller for actual behavior than for self-reported giving and were only found when giving was mediated through charities but not when giving directly to individuals. We discuss why this may be in the paper, which can be read (for free) online at https://lnkd.in/gaWAjzcd. Thanks to my tireless co-authors Jessica Spence, Matt Hornsey, and Lucas Dixon, PhD. Those who know, know that meta-analyses are complex and laborious and this one has been in progress for over 5 years. We are thrilled to finally be able to share these learnings and hope they will be valuable to scholars and practitioners alike. Please share with your networks. If you find content like this useful, please also subscribe to our research translation website www.donorpsych.org https://lnkd.in/gJX2aCyk

New #BookReview in #NVSQ! Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim reviews: Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship by Eric Fleisch https://lnkd.in/e6KTyrPe

Now #OnlineFirst in #NVSQ! How Does #Nonprofit Revenue Diversification Affect Revenue Volatility Before, During, and After External Economic Crisis? - Su Young Choi https://lnkd.in/ebztPyrS

It was fun to share co-authored research on nonprofit workers at the European Research Network On Philanthropy webinar today. Shout out to Mandi Janis Stewart and Kerry Kuenzi, my awesome collaborators! And Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly for publishing our study!

And it’s live! Our paper on fundraising ethics from the donor’s perspective is now available to read in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly! Thank you for the collaboration, Tine Faseur and Glenn T. Timmermans!

Now out in #NVSQ! #Fundraising #Ethics: Toward an In-Depth Understanding of Individual Donors’ Perceptions - Tine Faseur, Tine De Bock, & Glenn Timmermans https://lnkd.in/daBQTput