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  • Discussion
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,032 Views
17 Pages

23 July 2015

Sustainability of nonprofit organizations is a key concern for today’s nonprofit scholars and practitioners. Building upon the nonprofit economics literature, the present paper introduces the distinction between the demand-side and supply-side determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,051 Views
13 Pages

In June 2016, China promulgated the “Opinions of the State Council on Strengthening the Work of Rescuing Children in Difficulty”, which broadened the coverage of child welfare in China. The document clearly encourages and supports the par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,121 Views
27 Pages

20 February 2023

This article is concerned with equalities nonprofit organizations’ activities to achieve substantive representation in policy-making through a sub-state government. It draws on three strands of the interest representation literature from equali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,356 Views
13 Pages

23 August 2019

Official development assistance provides an immense flow of financial funding to educational nonprofit organizations (NPOs). This source of funding faces criticism because of the unintended indirect effects it has in lowering the relative level of lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,952 Views
23 Pages

Leadership Styles and Their Influence on Learning Culture and Dynamic Capacity in Nonprofit Organizations

  • Javier Enrique Espejo-Pereda,
  • Elizabeth Emperatriz García-Salirrosas and
  • Miluska Villar-Guevara

15 August 2025

Leadership is a key element in diverse working environments, contributing to the construction of more competitive and efficient institutions. Its impact transcends different sectors, including non-profit organizations, where it is essential to improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,611 Views
17 Pages

What Role Do Design Factors Play in Applying Performance Measurement Systems in Nonprofit Organizations?

  • Louisi Francis Moura,
  • Edson Pinheiro Lima,
  • Fernando Deschamps,
  • Eileen Van Aken,
  • Sergio Eduardo Gouvea da Costa,
  • Rafael Duarte and
  • Rafael Araujo Kluska

23 March 2022

Recent research on management control and performance measurement and management (PMM) points towards a concern to provide suitable systems in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). However, few attempts have been made to understand these organizations and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,507 Views
13 Pages

22 June 2021

This study empirically assesses the impact of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) on multi-actor global governance initiatives. Multi-actor global governance initiatives have emerged to strengthen joint action among different societal actors to tackle tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,737 Views
17 Pages

27 May 2022

This research examines the implications of lean and agile methodologies for solving project management gaps in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). The data were collected from project managers, executives, and supervisors through an online survey questio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,127 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2020

Using the extended theory of planned behavior, this study examined individuals’ cognitive and psychological determinants of their intentions to donate to nonprofit organizations (NPOs) with either a positive or negative chief executive officer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,633 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2018

Participation of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) is important in emergency management because NPOs often work in conjunction with governments to offer assistance and resources in the emergency management process. NPO participation in disaster relief e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,667 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2022

The non-profit sector plays an important role in the American and European continents, as non-profit organizations support the development of civil society and help people in need. However, most non-profit organizations (NPO) are financially dependen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,484 Views
16 Pages

As nonprofits operate in a competitive environment with limited resources, they constantly seek new ways to optimize their resources. This study investigates factors influencing nonprofits’ decision to integrate flexible labor, such as independ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
11,125 Views
14 Pages

Social Innovation in the Non-Profit Organization Framework: A Review

  • Ana Beatriz Blanco-Ariza,
  • Alexis Messino-Soza,
  • Ángel Wilhelm Vázquez-García and
  • Enrique Melamed-Varela

9 August 2019

This article reviews the literature related to the concepts of social innovation and non-profit organizations, applying a bibliometric analysis to the last five years of publications in the Scopus platform and Web of Science. The results suggest that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,521 Views
22 Pages

30 August 2021

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) play an important role in society. Nowadays, many companies apply the phenomenon—corporate social responsibility (CSR) which supports sustainable development and cooperation between the for-profit and non-profit sector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,557 Views
15 Pages

31 December 2023

The study aims to enhance the sustainability of non-profit organizations by analyzing factors contributing to the adoption of digital marketing by non-profit organizations. For this purpose, this study presented a research model on digital marketing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,242 Views
21 Pages

The Radicalness of Innovation in Nonprofit Community Sport Organizations

  • Alison Doherty,
  • Larena Hoeber,
  • Orland Hoeber,
  • Kristen A. Morrison and
  • Richard Wolfe

26 January 2025

Our study examined and compared the type, process, conditions, and consequences of radical and incremental innovations in community sport organizations (CSOs), which are a type of nonprofit membership association. Interviews were conducted with the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
25,783 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2013

Non-profit organizations and leaders may benefit from the utilization of behaviors attributed to emotional intelligence. The consideration of emotional intelligence skills becomes a strategy for the development of the non-profit organizational leader...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,508 Views
16 Pages

5 June 2020

The present research aimed to explore volunteer travelers’ loyalty formation for the non-profit religious organization of volunteer tourism by considering the gender influence. A quantitative process along with a survey method was utilized to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,011 Views
19 Pages

9 August 2021

The article concerns the impact of stakeholders on project management in non-profit organizations. This issue was presented from the perspective of the organization’s project management maturity. It seems that this issue has not yet been adequately r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,067 Views
19 Pages

26 May 2014

The numerous empirical and conceptual studies that have been conducted over recent years concerning the social responsibility of enterprises and their contributions towards sustainable development have given very little consideration to non-profit or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,262 Views
18 Pages

Religious non-profit organizations are becoming increasingly important in the third sector in a wide range of countries, where they are currently leading players in different areas, such as education, healthcare, and social work. These organizations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,895 Views
22 Pages

15 November 2020

The model of the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) has cooperation as one of its main principles. This alternative economic model proposes to prioritize cooperation over competition to favor the creation of social value. From this point of view, stra...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,651 Views
12 Pages

24 October 2017

Nonprofit and voluntary associations around the world are the primary vehicle for representing the voices of citizens in the policy-making process. As scholars who are committed to advancing the role of civil society and the citizen, it is incumbent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,121 Views
20 Pages

Empowering the Collective: Redefining Youth Activism and Political Dynamics Within Nonprofit Organizations

  • Aurora Nicolas,
  • Vivienne Yu,
  • Surabhi Chinta,
  • Mayumi Takeda,
  • Tiffany Dong,
  • Alessandra Palange and
  • Aleks Liou

27 April 2025

This study explores the “nonprofitization” of youth climate organizing from the perspective of six youth activists who participated in designing a pilot environmental activism program for a large science museum located in Northern Califor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,644 Views
19 Pages

23 August 2024

The concept of managerialism as it relates to the field of human services has garnered increased attention from researchers in recent years. Understood as the “dominance of management practices and ideas derived in the for-profit sector”,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,508 Views
25 Pages

24 February 2025

This study explored how volunteer management is adapted to the specific context of a nonprofit organization (NPO). Through a participatory autoethnographic approach in Huellas Foundation, a Colombian NPO that supports its mission operation in volunte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,922 Views
27 Pages

8 October 2024

This study explores how machine learning can optimize financial risk management for non-profit organizations by evaluating various algorithms aimed at mitigating loan default risks. The findings indicate that ensemble learning models, such as random...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,196 Views
8 Pages

17 February 2018

Using hazard analysis procedures, this study undertakes a longitudinal examination of Israeli Nonprofit Organizations’ (NPOs’) financial vulnerability arising from governmental funding instability. Funding instability is characterized by time-at-risk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,501 Views
20 Pages

The socioeconomic changes that many countries have been experiencing in recent decades, caused by structural factors or by specific circumstances, where the pandemic crisis of COVID-19 is only the most recent example, have posed challenges to organiz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,541 Views
26 Pages

1 June 2025

In today’s rapidly evolving global landscape, the need to cultivate innovation-ready, globally competent talent has become a strategic imperative. This study critically investigates how sustainable open innovation strategies—particularly...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
39,664 Views
22 Pages

Transparency as a Key Element in Accountability in Non-Profit Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

  • Cristina Ortega-Rodríguez,
  • Ana Licerán-Gutiérrez and
  • Antonio Luis Moreno-Albarracín

20 July 2020

The purpose of this article is to present a framework to understand transparency in the third sector and then to explore the main research streams regarding the disclosure of information and accountability by conducting a systematic literature review...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,573 Views
20 Pages

15 May 2023

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are becoming top players in the business arena and can significantly contribute to socially sustainable development by leading several open innovation (OI) processes. The present study investigated the functioning of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,788 Views
25 Pages

2 September 2020

The growing alignment between Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) and cooperation development actors has contributed to creating new partnerships to be harnessed in addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (e.g., SDG 17). This study aimed to map t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,514 Views
18 Pages

21 December 2017

Individual, micro-level attitudes towards nonprofit organizations (NPOs) can have many potential determinants. In this study, we explore the impact of three categories of potential determinants of attitudes towards NPOs: Political cleavages (the cult...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
582 Views
27 Pages

Enhancing Cybersecurity Readiness in Non-Profit Organizations Through Collaborative Research and Innovation—A Systematic Literature Review

  • Maryam Roshanaei,
  • Premkumar Krishnamurthy,
  • Anivesh Sinha,
  • Vikrant Gokhale,
  • Faizan Muhammad Raza and
  • Dušan Ramljak

9 December 2025

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are crucial for building equitable and thriving communities. The majority of NPOs are small, community-based organizations that serve local needs. Despite their significance, NPOs often lack the resources to manage cyb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,541 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2022

In 2020, COVID-19 swept across the globe. To reduce the social harms caused by this public health event, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) cooperated with medical enterprises to produce reserves of emergency medical supplies. In practice, this cooperati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
19,185 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2020

The strategies that non-profit organizations choose for volunteer engagement and financial sustainability are of the utmost importance for successful work. The main purpose of this study was to investigate feasible strategies for volunteer engagement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
751 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2025

The nonprofit sector provides roughly one in ten jobs in the United States. Yet retirement benefits remain uneven and often inadequate compared to those in the public and private sectors. This article examines disparities in nonprofit access to retir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,384 Views
12 Pages

9 March 2018

Following Sine and David’s research on the potential of environmental jolts shifting the status quo in U.S. energy policy, we focus on the potential for environmental non-profit organizations in Japan to shift the status quo through institutional ent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,025 Views
11 Pages

28 October 2020

Nonprofit organizations operating in the environmental protection and conservation sector face challenging fundraising issues in collecting from individual donors the money needed to accomplish their goals. The purpose of this study was to investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,428 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2021

Digital technologies have inspired a change in volunteering in nonprofit organizations. In this context, the engagement of volunteers is mainly self-organized, through online platforms or apps. It is the aim of this paper to analyze the volunteers’ m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,840 Views
38 Pages

A Survey of Middleware Adoption in Nonprofit Sectors: A Sustainable Development Perspective

  • Basem Almadani,
  • Sarah Alissa,
  • Reem Alshareef,
  • Farouq Aliyu and
  • Esam Al-Nahari

14 October 2024

Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) are adopting technology to improve their quality of services, scale up, or reduce operation costs. However, due to the heterogeneity of systems they use, NPOs face system-integration challenges when collaborating with o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,547 Views
19 Pages

13 November 2014

In this article we attempt to contribute to governance research in the nonprofit area by proposing a conceptual framework inspired by recent developments in the literature. First, we analyze the governance of nonprofit organizations (hereafter, NPOs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,419 Views
26 Pages

Toward a Romanian NPOs Sustainability Model: Determinants of Sustainability

  • Sebastian-Ion Ceptureanu,
  • Eduard-Gabriel Ceptureanu,
  • Mihai Cristian Orzan and
  • Irinel Marin

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) have become increasingly important in the last decade for Romanian society since the state often failed to fulfill some of its social responsibilities. Romania’s economic and financial crisis several years ago hardly h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,424 Views
18 Pages

The beneficial effects of diversified income portfolios are well documented in previous research on non-profit organizations. This study examines how different types of organizational missions affect the level of revenue diversification of organizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,856 Views
17 Pages

14 May 2014

Public and nonprofit organizations, entwined in the delivery of public goods and services, are in the midst of challenging economic times. In these circumstances, sound collaborative leadership may help bridge budget and program service delivery shor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,322 Views
30 Pages

Market Orientation in NGDOs: Construction of a Scale Focused on Their Stakeholders

  • Víctor Valero-Amaro,
  • Clementina Galera-Casquet and
  • María Jesús Barroso-Méndez

9 August 2019

Nongovernmental development organizations (NGDOs) have traditionally enjoyed notable recognition and visibility within the field of nonprofit organizations. However, the situation of this sector is problematic in its need to respond to various threat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,146 Views
11 Pages

17 February 2022

The prevalence of food insecurity (FI) in United States households has fluctuated between 10% and 15% for the past two decades, well above the Healthy People 2030 goal. FI is associated with increased use of healthcare services and the prevalence of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,795 Views
11 Pages

Vehicle Routing Optimization for Non-Profit Organization Systems

  • Ahmad Alhindi,
  • Abrar Alsaidi and
  • Amr Munshi

4 August 2022

The distributor management system has long been a challenge for many organizations and companies. Overall, successful distribution involves several moving entities and methods, requiring a resilient distribution management strategy powered by data an...

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
1,178 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2025

The core of the United States’ tax incentive policies for the cultural industry is anchored in Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. By offering tax incentives, these policies incentivize individuals and enterprises to make donations to...

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