{"title":"Bridging Divides or Widening Gaps? Nonprofit Organizations' Efforts for Migrant Inclusion in Two Global Cities.","authors":"Yan Long, Wei Luo, Berta Terzieva","doi":"10.1177/08997640251387954","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08997640251387954","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nonprofit organizations are often seen as critical nodes in shaping migrant experiences and supporting the inclusion and representation within host communities. In doing so, nonprofits encounter numerous obstacles. With this study, we explore the factors influencing how well nonprofits include, reach out to, and serve migrants relative to their local presence. We analyze organizational survey data from two distinct urban contexts: Vienna (Austria) and Shenzhen (China), each with unique institutional, political, and cultural backgrounds. Our findings suggest that interpersonal contact and representative governance in nonprofit organizations are closely linked to their (un)responsiveness to the needs of migrant populations. These results challenge the often-idealized perceptions of urban civic spaces and community interactions, underscoring the paradoxical mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"55 4","pages":"1049-1074"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13331349/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148392226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retaining Volunteers Through Political Economic Change: Austerity, Boundary Work, and the Making of an Unpaid Workforce in Newcastle's Parks.","authors":"Marion Ernwein","doi":"10.1177/08997640251375976","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08997640251375976","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is concerned with the persistence and transformations of local authority 'in-house' volunteering programs-which integrate volunteers recruited in a personal capacity in the delivery of local services-during the United Kingdom's 2010-2020 austerity period. Drawing on qualitative research in Newcastle-upon-Tyne's parks, the article highlights a mismatch between volunteers' expectations of what an in-house volunteering program should feel like and what an austerity-shaped one effectively offers them. It centers the concept of 'boundary work' in understanding the mismatch and examining why volunteers remain involved despite it. The article emphasizes boundary work's relational nature, showing how volunteers' continued participation rests not only on their placement of limits but also on their managers' awareness of and commitment to those. It also highlights how managers' dual process of boundary demarcation and boundary downplaying helps to make volunteers' participation feel at times strictly voluntary and at others like a shared endeavor with paid workers- a fluidity which is key to ensuring volunteers' continued involvement in a changing political economic context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"55 4","pages":"858-879"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13331341/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148392235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Debra Z Basil, Mary Runté, Carolina O C Werle, Jennifer Chernishenko
{"title":"Relation, Exploitation, or Function? Developing a Measurement Scale and Assessing Perceptions of Non-Profit/Business Partnerships.","authors":"Debra Z Basil, Mary Runté, Carolina O C Werle, Jennifer Chernishenko","doi":"10.1177/08997640251348653","DOIUrl":"10.1177/08997640251348653","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research examines non-profit organizations' (NPOs) attitudes and intentions for engaging in business partnerships for their first time. A randomly selected, nationally representative survey of NPOs in the United States (<i>N</i> = 533), Canada (<i>N</i> = 399), and France (<i>N</i> = 139) was conducted online. Scales were created to assess NPO perceptions along three dimensions: relational, avoiding exploitation, and functional. Scales created herein are shown to be a valid means of assessing partnership perceptions, and the research results replicated across these three developed countries. Results demonstrate that NPOs considering business partnerships for the first time are primarily seeking concrete, functional benefits. They approach business partnerships with optimism, expecting positive relationships with little fear of exploitation. This suggests an inclination to participate. It also suggests potential vulnerability at the hands of a stronger business partner.</p>","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"55 3","pages":"725-751"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13102298/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147786084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities for Social Innovations in Small Non-Profit Organizations","authors":"Alina Kadyrova, Philip Shapira","doi":"10.1177/08997640231214738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231214738","url":null,"abstract":"The promotion of social innovations by non-profit and business organizations has gained increasing interest. Yet, there has been limited research on routines that organizations use to facilitate social innovations. This paper uses a dynamic capabilities framework to understand the microfoundations of dynamic capabilities for social innovation in small non-profit organizations. Through analysis of routines of 20 small organizations in five European metropolitan areas, the paper demonstrates that many microfoundation aspects resemble generic abilities of opportunity identification, alliancing, user engagement, networking, and organizational learning. However, their orientation toward public values requires incorporating commitments to social value and principles of ethics, responsibility, and sustainability, into different organizational processes. We suggest that social impact does not always require substantial investment and can be achievable through modest changes such as repurposing surplus resources. Building flexible routines that enable such incremental changes is a key element of organizational capability to adapt to changing contexts.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"31 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When a Crisis Has a Silver Lining: Social Media P2p Fundraising at the Start of COVID-19","authors":"Beatrice Martin, Christian Schlereth","doi":"10.1177/08997640231213098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231213098","url":null,"abstract":"Research suggests that global crises generally have a negative impact on donations to nonprofit organizations. In this research note, we challenge whether this wisdom applies to all channels by examining a growing digital fundraising channel, social media peer-to-peer (p2p) fundraising, at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. Through both United States and German samples, we study which nonprofit organizations over- and underperformed compared to the market average to glean the potential drivers of success. We demonstrate that not all crises lower generosity, provide managerial insights into this new digital fundraising channel, and discuss how our results are generalizable to other channels and crises.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"28 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Montserrat Prats López, Auke Rijpma, T. Moor, Jolien Reijerink
{"title":"Behind the Crowdsourcing Platform: Assessing Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Instruments","authors":"Montserrat Prats López, Auke Rijpma, T. Moor, Jolien Reijerink","doi":"10.1177/08997640231212839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231212839","url":null,"abstract":"Involving volunteers to perform tasks through crowdsourcing projects is gaining popularity. However, attracting volunteers and keeping them engaged throughout a project sets great challenges to project managers. This article analyzes the effectiveness of recruiting and engagement instruments on volunteers’ activity. A mixed-method approach has been used, including interviews with project managers and quantitative data from a large Dutch crowdsourcing platform. The research results show that crowdsourcing projects benefit from being part of a platform because of the higher activity of experienced participants. The study also provides empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of timely communication and the speed of quality checks, both of which require project management resources. Finally, the study suggests that material rewards are less important for volunteer engagement than the intrinsic motivation of a point-based reward system.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"81 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138600396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manager Control Over Outcomes? Nature and Nurture Over Time","authors":"Mark A. Hager, Nara Yoon","doi":"10.1177/08997640231212840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231212840","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarship on organizational change has de-emphasized environment, core competencies at founding, and structural inertia in favor of the study of strategic management. We encourage renewed consideration of forces over which managers have less control. In a reconsideration and conceptual extension of Hager and Brudney’s nature and nurture influences on nonprofit efforts to recruit volunteers, we introduce central dimensions of organizational ecology theory. We assert that more attention to the tenets of organizational ecology will sensitize the field to the influence of environments in which organizations operate. Consistent with Hager and Brudney, our longitudinal assessment of nonprofits not only records the value of purposeful adjustments of programs but also highlights how the evolution of structural conditions plays an essential role in core organizational outcomes in volunteer management. Beyond the usual validation of strategic management, we emphasize that the influence of environment and structure is an essential determinant of the fates of organizations over time.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139218359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public and Private in an Era of Entrepreneurial Philanthropy: Exploring John Dewey’s The Public and Its Problems (1927/2016) to (Re)conceptualize Philanthropy as a Public","authors":"Siobhan Daly","doi":"10.1177/08997640231214740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231214740","url":null,"abstract":"In debates about the role(s) and scale of entrepreneurial philanthropy in democracies, scholars discuss the erosion of distinctive public and private spheres and interests, and the replacement of the public sphere. This has occurred at the expense of public deliberation and participation, in favor of the reification of individuals and the role of experts/expertise. Drawing upon John Dewey’s The Public and Its Problems (1927/2016), I argue that there is an eclipse of the publicity of the public. This informs my case for the (re)conceptualization of philanthropy as a public, characterized by (a) the philanthropist as a social rather than an atomistic being, (b) the philanthropy-state dynamic and the publics’ claims, and (c) part of the radical vision of philanthropy. To ensure that private and public have analytical and practical resonance, it is imperative to (re)frame and (re)conceptualize what these concepts mean to entrepreneurial philanthropy and for its role in democracies.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139221016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teresa Elvira-Lorilla, Inigo Garcia‐Rodriguez, M. E. Romero‐Merino, Marcos Santamaría-Mariscal
{"title":"The Role of Social Media in Nonprofit Organizations’ Fundraising","authors":"Teresa Elvira-Lorilla, Inigo Garcia‐Rodriguez, M. E. Romero‐Merino, Marcos Santamaría-Mariscal","doi":"10.1177/08997640231213286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231213286","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to explore the effect of social media use on fundraising by nonprofit organizations (NPOs). To do so, we analyze the accounts of 83 Spanish nongovernmental development organizations on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram over a 5-week period. Our results show that social media can be a useful tool for NPO fundraising. Specifically, although mere presence on social media has no effect on the donations raised by the organization, the size of the NPO’s network (followers), its social media activity (posts), content (posts explicitly requesting donations), and follower engagement do influence fundraising. This study helps to highlight the usefulness of social media as a fundraising tool and to show the differences among platforms, format, and content of posts. In particular, NPOs who intend to increase fundraising should actively participate in social media—especially Twitter and YouTube—not overuse stories and increase posts that solicit donations.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139219449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Donor Perceptions of Nonprofit Organizations’ Transparency: Conceptualization and Operationalization","authors":"Fanny Dethier, Cécile Delcourt, Laurence Dessart","doi":"10.1177/08997640231211212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640231211212","url":null,"abstract":"In the wake of unethical practices by some nonprofit organizations (NPOs), donors have called for better monitoring, to which some NPOs have responded by adjusting their donor-based transparency practices. Yet despite momentum for such efforts, a comprehensive conceptualization and operationalization of NPOs’ transparency remains missing, partly because knowledge about donors’ information requirements is limited. Accordingly, the present research proposes conceptualizing NPOs’ transparency, as perceived by donors, as a three-dimensional construct, composed of information accessibility, completeness, and accuracy. With a scale development procedure and three distinct empirical studies, this article establishes a reliable, valid measure of NPOs’ perceived transparency. Combined, the conceptualization and operationalization offer a comprehensive overview of donors’ information needs that can enhance the study of organizational transparency.","PeriodicalId":48235,"journal":{"name":"Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139226366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}