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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Nonprofit Organization"”.
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Leadership in A Community-Based, Nonprofit Organization: Total Action Against Poverty, Roanoke, Virginia
… which has been neglected is leadership in the nonprofit sector. The intent of this dissertation is to see how the leader influences the effectiveness of his organization. Also, organizational culture and socialization will be examined to see if these elements are at the disposal of the leader …
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Answering the “Now What?”: The Development of a Transdisciplinary Breast Cancer Survivorship Nonprofit Organization
… an antiauthoritarian minded and anti-hierarchal nonprofit created to address the needs of the growing breast cancer survivor population. LYTE is focused on six areas: charter network, education and training, research and evaluation, marketing, development, and partnerships. Each area is not meant …
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Use of Funds in a Nonprofit Organization as Predictor of Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency
… how funds are used in a religious not-for-profit organization (NPO) and member recruitment. Financial data, from Seventh-day Adventist conferences at the organizational level, were correlated with data on membership recruitment from these same conferences.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> This study used a …
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Sensemaking, meaning-making and practice perspectives in strategic planning for a veteran service nonprofit organization
… successes and challenges of a veteran service nonprofit organization through an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process to inform the organization's future priorities and direction. From a scholarly perspective, this research extends organizational literature in that it brings to light the ways …
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Advocating for Social Change: How A Human Service Nonprofit Organization Makes Sense of Its Advocacy Successes and Failures
<p>Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are uniquely positioned to play a vital role in social change, and many integrate advocacy in their efforts. This dissertation examined how one human service nonprofit organization working to help the unhoused engaged in advocacy and advocacy evaluation using …
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Extensions of Box-Jenkins Transfer Function Procedures and Their Application in Solving the Direct Mail Problem for a Nonprofit Organization
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Strategic Considerations or Sustaining Nonprofit Organizations
… of a domestic, U.S.-based, small to medium size nonprofit organization. Specifically, the nature and importance of a nonprofit organization?s mission statement, the board responsibilities and relationship to the staff, volunteer base, marketing, fundraising, and individual donors are addressed. …
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THE IMPACT OF A CROWDSOURCING APPARATUS ON ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY IN THE NONPROFIT CONTEXT: THE CASE OF BAR-KAYMA
… (CS) phenomenon among online and for-profit organizations (Kittur, Chi, & Suh, 2008; Sufen, Zhonghui, & Feng, 2013), our understanding about the phenomenon among nonprofit organizations is limited (Brabham, 2008). The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how integrating a CS apparatus …
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An Examination of Online Volunteers' Organizational and Work-Group Identification and Intent to Leave: A Case Study of OCEF
<p>This study examined the relationships among organizational identification,work-group identification and intent to leave of online volunteers in a nonprofit organization—OCEF. A total of 245 participants completed the online questionnaire. Consonant with previous research findings, organizational …
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Public relations in nonprofit organizations: A guide to establishing public relations programs in nonprofit settings
… has become an increasingly popular topic in the nonprofit community, and the demand for developing piblic relations as a core competency has increased as well. Since many nonprofit organization have limited time and resources for developing fuull-scale public relations programs, many rely on …
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Public relations in nonprofit organizations: A guide to establishing public relations programs in nonprofit settings
… has become an increasingly popular topic in the nonprofit community, and the demand for developing piblic relations as a core competency has increased as well. Since many nonprofit organization have limited time and resources for developing fuull-scale public relations programs, many rely on …
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Life after hate : recovering from racism
Life After Hate is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping white supremacists transition out of the extremist lifestyle and to helping those outside the supremacist community understand how these groups work. Founded by ex-supremacists, the group is one of the only organizations in the …
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The Role Of The Ethics Of Care In Transformation: An Examination Of How Nonprofit Leaders Deliver Care
<p>Although nonprofits have done much to aid both orphans and those who live in extreme poverty, the difficulties associated with these social problems can be challenging to overcome. Attempts to reduce such problems are frequently addressed by various government entities. However, these social …
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Nonprofit Board Effectiveness, Funding Source,and Financial Vulnerability
Nonprofit organizations rely heavily on their governing board of directors to provide leadership, strategic guidance, and financial oversight. The nonprofit community continues to grow, and the services provided by these organizations have become a critical part of our society, providing a wide …
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Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States
… the model and self-sustain as a community-based nonprofit organization outside (or in addition to) educational residencies.
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Management control systems in not-for-profit organizations: a case study
… "the process by which management assures that an organization carries out its strategies effectively and efficiently." Rapidly rising costs evidenced over the past decade have resulted in increased emphasis on these qualities in all organizations, particularly those in the public sector or similar …
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Remembering Del-Aware: Community Activism and Eco-Politics in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the Age of Reagan
… locally as “Dump the Pump” and spearheaded by a nonprofit organization called Del-AWARE supports and provides a regional take on recent scholarship that has illuminated the vibrant underlying dynamics of local civic engagement occurring amid the overshadowing political conservatism of the Reagan …
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An External Communication Audit of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
… Garden (NTBG), a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical plant diversity. Information was gathered during the communication audit through interviews with NTBG's key decision makers, content analyses of NTBG's primary publications, and a …
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Enhancing a Nonprofit Organization’s Capacity to Provide Service and Advocacy to Women: A Participatory Action Research with Zonta Club of Victoria
… explores how Zonta Club of Victoria (Zonta), a nonprofit organization in Victoria, British Columbia, might enhance its capacity to provide service and advocacy to women. Through applying the participatory action research (PAR) methodology and abiding by the ethical standards of Canada’s …
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