This paper introduces a new empirical approach to the nonprofit literature which can measure competition between nonprofit organizations. Our approach provides a framework to determine when and how the number of firms may be incorporated in empirical competitive analysis. We then systematically...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires nonprofit hospitals to report community benefit spending to justify nonprofit tax exemption. In this paper, we examine whether nonprofit hospital acquisitions influence the amount and type of community benefit spending. We analyzed 2011-2016 data on...

In this paper, we investigate the market for senior management in the U.S. charities sector. Using charity-level data from 990 Forms filed for U.S. Internal Revenue Service, we document two new stylized facts not documented before in the literature. First, we find that female CEOs are more...

With the increase in the demand of online education, especially for working people, there is a need for institutions that offer online education to identify, target, and market their services to people who are in need of furthering their education or who would be interested in using online...

The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent restrictive measures that became necessary in the first months of 2020 hit Italy hard. With this research, summarised here and published in the IV Iris Network report on social enterprises in Italy, the authors investigate COVID-19’s impact on social...

The Main Street Lending Program was created to support credit to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations that were harmed by the pandemic, particularly those that were unsupported by other pandemic-response programs. It was the most direct involvement in the business loan...

The Main Street Lending Program was created to support credit to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations that were harmed by the pandemic, particularly those that were unsupported by other pandemic-response programs. It was the most direct involvement in the business loan...