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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"fundraising"”.
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Stakeholder management in university fundraising projects
… undertaking large-scale, coordinated fundraising projects or capital campaigns in order to increase third stream income. There is a dearth of research which explores stakeholder management – one of the key knowledge areas in project management – in the public higher education …
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Private equity fund valuation management during fundraising
… valuations (net asset values or NAVs) during fundraising periods. Specifically, I study the extent to which the GPs inflate NAVs by managing valuation assumptions (e.g., valuation multiples), influencing the financial metrics (e.g., EBITDA and sales) reported by the private firms in their …
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Tensions and Metaphors in Higher Education Fundraising Profession
<p>This research examined the language used by higher education development professionals, specifically similar and dissimilar tropes and how they shape the perception of those development professionals. By studying these linguistic devices, insight is provided into this particular occupation and …
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The Palestinian Museum in California: A Fundraising Plan
… partnerships with other museums, and develops a fundraising strategy for the first three-years of operation.</p>
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An Analysis Of Two-Year College Fundraising Practices
… to discover information about the types of fundraising methods being used in community college resource development, determine what methods are most effective for successful development practices, and inform community college development officers of these methods. Specifically, this study …
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Jesuit Collaborative Fundraising: Religious and Secular Non-profit Partnerships
… study to examine the historical roots of Jesuit fundraising and presented the collaborative process between secular and religious nonprofit organizations. The Jesuit Academy and the Boys and Girls Club of the Midlands are both located in Omaha, Nebraska and serve a similar clientele: low-income, …
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Factors influencing fundraising success at church-related colleges and universities
… was to explore and examine factors leading to fundraising success in church-related colleges and universities that have not secularized their Christian mission, governance, and denominational relationships. This study posed research questions concerning both the specific strategies and …
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Factors influencing intercollegiate athletics fundraising structure: a survey and theory development
Intercollegiate athletics and fundraising expectations, at institutions of higher education, continue to increase and the pressure on athletic fundraisers has never been greater. There has been little study on the effects of organization structure and design and its effect on fundraisers that work …
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A grounded theory approach : inter-organizational relationships in community college fundraising
… inter- organizational relationships (IORs) since fundraising professionals manage multi-layer relationships associated with their organizational role. This unique environment typifies IORs as the college governing board relationship works with the foundation fundraising board relationship in …
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Reinventing the rattling tin : explaining the dynamics of social networking site fundraising
Recent social media fundraising success stories like the No Make-up Selfie and Ice Bucket Challenge campaigns, which raised millions of pounds for charities in just days, have been hailed as a new method of fundraising in a new, networked society. They also, at a first glance, appear to support …
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Oklahoma Public Comprehensive Universities: The President's Role in Financial Management and Fundraising
… more adept at budgeting, financial management, fundraising, and finding the resources necessary for their institutions to not only be successful, but to simply survive. </p> <p>The study utilized a transcendental phenomenological research approach. A qualitative research methodology was used to …
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Presidential Fundraising: A Multiple Case Study of Rural Serving Oklahoma Community Colleges
… on new responsibilities related to institutional fundraising due to multiple economic challenges including continued budgetary shortfalls and limited resource allocation. Review of the academic literature addressing this subject exposed a wide variety of rationales associated with this leadership …
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University Fundraising Through Special Events: An Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior
… it resulted in the creation of a revised event fundraising model. Student involvement proved to be the only quality significantly predicting a guest’s overall satisfaction with the event, explaining 12% of the variance. The combination of overall event satisfaction with a subset of the revised …
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Application of Social Networks to Fundraising in the Presidential Nomination Process of 2008
<p>Campaign donations are something that scholars have examined for some time, generally treating these donations as an aggregated explanatory variable. Through technological advances in computing, size is no longer a limitation that inhibits scholars from using this information in a robust manner. …
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising
… value that returning traffic can bring for fundraising platforms.
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The state of fundraising within the nonprofit social service sector : a study to determine how and to what levels of success South African NPOs are managing and operating their fundraising functions
This study sought analyse the state of fundraising within the South African nonprofit social service sector at the end of the 2007/2008 financial year. The overall aim of the study was to evaluate the fundraising capacities of social service organisations, in order to ascertain whether …
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A Study of the Perceptions of Stakeholders Regarding Commercial Fundraising in Georgia's Public Schools
… and parents regarding the use of commercial fundraising methods in Georgia's public schools. It was the researcher's purpose to fill a void in the literature regarding the perceptions of school stakeholders, in terms of their perceptions regarding the nature, scope, and general acceptability …
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War Machines of the Charitable City: Fundraising and the architecture of territory in Paris
… the entangled territorialities of charitable fundraising, redressing the under-theorisation of the praxis as a social construct and a transformative spatial process. It approaches fundraising from an etiological perspective, drawing on French continental theory, particularly the work of Michel …
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A Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study of Fundraisers’ Self-Disclosure in Major Gift Fundraising Relationships
… Fundraisers’ Self-Disclosure in U.S. Major Gift Fundraising Relationships This study explores the role of fundraisers’ self-disclosure in major gift fundraising relationships. Building relationships with major donors to secure major gifts is a primary concern for leaders of non-profit …
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