Latest Nonprofit Research

Happy New Year to all! Just to start the 2020 year on the right foot, I wanted to share with all of you a couple of nonprofit articles from various publications, including Third Sector News, blogs, and podcasts that provide some insight on nonprofit transitions, development and sustainability, management, and public policy. 

If you cannot access some of the nonprofit articles through the direct link provided or cannot pay for the journal article (for which I get NO remuneration), please consider going to your local public library to access the articles.

Nonprofit Transitions: 

Stanford Social Innovation Review: 

• Lessons from the Front Line for Nonprofit CEO Successions. 

Third Sector News:

• Interim Executive Director Benefits: Ensuring Smooth Nonprofit Executive Transitions
• Managing Nonprofit Crisis
• Nonprofit Change Management

Development and Sustainability

Nonprofit Quarterly:

• Beyond Financial Oversight: Expanding the Board’s Role in the Pursuit of Sustainability. 

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly:

*   Success in an Online Giving Day: The Role of Social Media in Fundraising

*   Professional Identity and the Determinants of Fundraisers’ Charitable Behavior

Stanford Social Innovation Review: 

• Donor-Advised Funds and Community Foundations: What’s Right, What’s Missing, and What’s Next Donor-Advised Funds and Community Foundations: What’s Right, What’s Missing, and What’s Next 

Third Sector News:

• End of the Year Donations: Donate to the Right Cause
• DON’T Run Your Nonprofit Like a Business – Part I
• Nonprofit Supply, Demand, and Funding – Part IIThe Ideal Nonprofit Funding Model  2020 Census: Critical for Nonprofit Sustainability
• Nonprofit Sustainability: Employee Burnout
• Planning for Impact When the Nonprofit Funding Isn’t Enough

Management: 

Nonprofit Quarterly:

• When You Love the Organization but Not the Leadership

Third Sector News:

• A Nonprofit Board of Directors Leads by Example
• Conferences: Nonprofit Professional Development Pillars
• High-Performing Nonprofits are Strategic
• Nonprofit Capacity Building Tools: Organizational Charts
• Nonprofit Management: Building EPIC Organizations
• Nonprofit Employee Satisfaction
• Nonprofit Funding: Balancing Sustainability and the Client
• Now You Can View My Discussion on Nonprofit Ethical Management… Ahora pueden ver mi conversación sobre la gestión ética de las organizaciones sin fines de lucro (In Spanish/ En Español)
• When Employees Sabotage Good Nonprofit Managers

Voluntas

• No Margin, No Mission: How Practitioners Justify Nonprofit Managerialization. 
• Technological and Organizational Innovations and Financial Performance: Evidence from Nonprofit Human Service Organizations. 

Public Policy: 

Nonprofit Quarterly:

• Another Cautionary Tale for Nonprofits during Election Season
• Taming Tax Incentives: A Leading Economist Calls for Change

National Council of Nonprofits:

• Limited Progress on Public Service Loan Forgiveness

Public Performance & Management Review:

• The Intersection of Nonprofit Roles and Public Policy Implementation.

Third Sector News:

• Government Shutdowns and Federal Budgets Endanger Nonprofit Collective Impact
• Nonprofit Advocacy or Lobbying: What’s the Difference?
• Nonprofit Advocacy or Lobbying: Calls to Action
• Tax Cuts, Government Shutdowns, and Rising Debt Ceiling Spell Danger for Nonprofits
• What Nonprofits Should Do About the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
• White Paper: Compromised Funding and Capacity for Nonprofits and Government

These nonprofit articles were selected based on their relevance, helpfulness, and/or original content that could potentially be helpful to nonprofits.

Please Subscribe

Please subscribe to Third Sector News, which will also provide resources and toolkits for managing real-life situations that those working in the nonprofit field experience. For example, this week, we have included a “Nonprofit Website Toolkit”. However, these resources are only available to those that subscribe.