This article reports the results of an extensive survey of charity trustees in England and Wales in relation to governance duties and conflicts of interest. The results help discern trustees’ understanding of, and confidence with, their governance duties, their enthusiasm for practical...

This study investigates whether reliance on monetary donations alters nonprofit firms' behaviors. Specifically, in the hospice industry, shortening patients' length of stay (LOS) speeds turnover, allowing a hospice to serve more patients and expand its donation network. We measure hospices'...

Fundraising involves the simultaneous consideration of three actors the donor, the charitable organization raising the funds, and the beneficiary. Successful fundraising appeals match donor motivations to preferred organizational and beneficiary attributes while acknowledging the influence of...

Problem Definition: Cost-effective resource allocation policies are important for public-sector and nonprofit organizations. Yet, for some allocation decisions in this context, quantifying costs is difficult, even impossible. Academic/Practice Relevance: Behavioral researchers have studied the...

How are political elites embedded in both civil and political domains? I studied 246 Chinese political elites who also served on nonprofit foundations' boards from 2011 to 2015 and conceptualized a framework to understand the state-nonprofit relationship before 2015. The political elites can...

We study a sequential resource allocation problem balancing fairness and efficiency for nonprofit operations. (Un)fairness is measured by the expected maximum demand shortfall among all communities, and (in)efficiency is measured by the expected remaining resources after allocation. We prove...

This article delves into how nonprofit institutions, specifically Business Interest Associations (BIAs), have undertaken their Internet appearance applying digital marketing techniques. For this purpose, and using big data tools, the presence and monitoring by Internet users of 102 BIAs, with...

This paper focuses on how nonprofits can recruit and retain Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996 by examining what they want in a nonprofit workplace. Millennials are the largest generation in the American workforce so their workplace needs are critical for employers to...

Nonprofits provide services for the common good and are having an increasing influence on the economy over time. There is consensus among prior studies in for-profit settings that social capital positively influences corporate financial performance. In contrast, this study analyzes the...

Social capital depicts the extent of mutual trust in a jurisdiction. This study examines the impact of social capital on nonprofit density and provides evidence that the social capital of a county is positively associated with the growth of nonprofit density in the county. The total number of...