RGK Working Papers
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The Rise of School-Supporting Nonprofits
(2012 RGK-Arnova President's Award for Nonprofit Research, 2013-10-31)This paper examines voluntary contributions to public education via charitable school foundations, booster clubs and PTAs/PTOs as an alternative to local revenues generated via the property tax. We employ panel data on ... -
Philanthropic Giving Through Municipalities In Israel: An Alternative or a Threat To The Future of Philanthropy
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What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)Though the topic of youth civic involvement is increasingly popular in social science research, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not yet well understood. In this paper, a ... -
Revitalizing American Cities: Do Community Development Corporations Matter?
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)Policy makers have been faced with identifying solutions to address poverty and other social problems facing U.S. cities. Community development corporations have emerged as major players in the rebuilding of cities across ... -
Don't Change a Winning Team…Or Should You? The Impact of Social Interaction Among Nonprofit Leaders on Organizational Effectiveness
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)This paper provides a theoretical model that deals with the potential impact of social interactions among nonprofit leaders on the effectiveness of their organization. Five propositions included in the model and supported ... -
Edifice Complex: Building Ownership and Financial Strength of Nonprofit Theaters
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)This paper explores factors contributing to the financial capacity of nonprofit performing arts theaters. The analysis explains profitability and liquidity of 3,642 U.S. nonprofit theaters that filed IRS Form 990s from ... -
A Trellis for Nonprofits? The Growth of Government Civil Society Registries
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, 2010)Civil society registries have emerged as a type of a government-implemented policy tool that, according to policymakers, aim to do everything from compile information, promote accountability and foster collaboration. ... -
The Politics of Need and Politics of Politics: Exploring the Motives of Donative Actors to Social Service Nonprofit Organizations in a Highly Politicized Field
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)This paper explores the capacity of several induced theories of philanthropic behavior to explain foundation grant-making patterns to nonprofit social service organizations working to address teenage pregnancy through ... -
Corporate Philanthropy: Are Corporations Strategic in Their Philanthropic Practices?
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, 2010)This paper examines the diversity of corporate philanthropic practices and aims to determine whether corporations are strategic in their philanthropic giving. Using an original database including firm-level data on ... -
Who Gets USAID Decomcracy Assistance: Thinking About Foreign and in a Global Society
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Constructing Meaning Through Service: Beyong Beliefs and Actions
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)Much of the literature on community service has sought to investigate the factors that compel individuals to participate. These studies have tended to investigate service using rational choice models or socialization and ... -
A New Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility
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The Safety Net as a Network
(RGK Center Working Paper, Summer Fellowship Program, 2007)The lack of a coherent understanding of what is meant by the American safety net made it difficult to have a meaningful discourse on the current condition. This paper proposes an alternative formulation of the social safety ... -
Soldiers to Citizens: The Link Between Military Service and Volunteering
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, 2008-08-08)Research has shown that military service is linked with some forms of political engagement, such as voting, especially for minorities. In this paper, we explore the relationship between military service and another ... -
Drawing Lines, Spanning Boundaries: Managerial Perceptions of Innovation Value in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, 2009-06)Despite the large and varied selection of literature on innovation, questions about the diverse organizational aspects of innovation and the differences of innovation in public and nonprofit organizations still remain. ... -
The Young and the Restless: Generation Y in the Nonprofit Workforce
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)The ability of nonprofit organizations to attract and retain the next generation of its workforce will play an integral role in the growth and vitality of the sector. Management literature provides a number of suggestions ... -
Getting to Know You: Awareness and Confidence in the Nonprofit Sector
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Assessing the Structure of Organizational Fields: A Multilevel Latent Class Analysis as a Tool for Institutional Analysis
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, 2009-07-17)Within organizational research a question researchers are often interested in is the “why” question. A question that is not focused on as frequently is the how question. I argue in this paper that as researchers we need ... -
Art Investment Collections: A New Model for Museum Finance?
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, 2009-07-17)This article examines the conflicting views about whether to consider artwork as a financial asset and suggests a modified museum finance strategy that would not raise stakeholder concerns about selling art in the permanent ... -
Intersectoral Crossings: From Activists To Civil Servants
(RGK Center: Summer Fellowship Program, unknown)This paper examines the life-work histories of twenty four civil society activists that crossed the boundary of the third sector into the government in Mexico 2000-6). The motivation of the study was to document and analyse ...
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