The authors present an overview of the academic literature on charitable giving based on a literature review of more than 500 articles. They structure their review around the central question of why people donate money to charitable organizations. They identify eight mechanisms as the most important forces that drive charitable giving: (a) awareness of need;…
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, Religion, Society, and Development, Social Capital and Networks. Over its lifetime it has published 2,403 papers, which have received 86,079 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering Religion, Society, and Development Social Capital and Networks Public Policy and Administration Research Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development |
| ISSN | 0899-7640 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.6 |
| h-index | 132 |
| i10-index | 1,280 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Journal website | nvs.sagepub.com |
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This article examines the effects of three major revenue strategies in nonprofit organizations. Evolving resource dependence is demonstrated by the shifting reliance on each source of funds: private contributions, government funding, and commercial activities. A wide-ranging literature review is condensed into summary profiles comparing revenue volatility, goal displacement, process, and structure effects of each strategy.…
I use a volunteer process model to organize a review of recent research on volunteerism, focusing mainly on journal articles reporting survey research results. Scholars from several different disciplines and countries have contributed to a body of work that is becoming more theoretically sophisticated and methodologically rigorous. The first stage of the process model—antecedents of…
This article reviews the American literature in social science for the period 1975–1992 on the determinants of volunteer participation in programs and associations. It finds that most studies are too narrow in the hinds of variables that they include and that explanatory power is reduced as a result. Such participation is significantly greater for certain…
T1he term volunteer is used too broadly in denoting nonsalaried service. In this article, the authors attempt to delineate the boundaries of the term volunteer. They first reviewed 11 widely used definitions of volunteer. Using a content analysis, they identified four key dimensions commonly found in most definitions of volunteer. They then proposed an internal…