Anne-Lise K. Velez, Katherine M. Ngaruiya, D. Ozkan
Competency-based education has received significant attention from education leaders, policy makers, and learning scholars in recent years. With courses to degree programs centered on this concept, the discourse has been fueled by renewed discussion on students’ ability to “master skills” in college. As strategies in teaching, learning, and higher education continue to evolve, we argue that service learning plays a critical role in this shift to competency-based education frameworks but that other important methods of teaching competencies are equally important. We conducted interviews with instructors and students in a wide array of academic disciplines, as well as organizational leaders in various nonprofit sectors. Sampling diversity helps capture the range of perspectives around service learning and competency development. This research has important implications for instructors and faculty seeking best practices in designing service-learning courses and for community partners engaging in service-learning relationships with educational institutions. Subscribe to JNEL
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Pub Date : 2020-03-23DOI: 10.18666/JNEL-2020-V10-I2-10185
C. M. Gray
Reframing Nonprofit Organizations Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change By Angela M. Eikenberry, Roseanne M. Mirabella, and Billie Sandberg (Eds.) Melvin & Leigh (2018) Reviewed by Charles M. Gray Subscribe to JNEL
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Pub Date : 2019-12-11DOI: 10.18666/JNEL-2020-V10-I1-9566
A. Schatteman, Li‐Yin Liu
For their future career, nonprofit students need to attain the necessary skills and knowledge to leverage the power of technology appropriately to serve their communities. As faculty, we need to design our courses to improve the digital literacy of our students and therefore improve their ability to effectively communicate, manage, and lead public service organizations. This article examines an undergraduate course called Community Organizations in a Digital World that responds to the new demands for innovations in nonprofit organizations. We present the overall course design, including assignments, and the findings of a pretest and a posttest of individual student digital literacy and student reflections on their digital literacy. Based on the two-stage survey, students’ digital literacy significantly improved when they completed the course. Moreover, students appreciated the importance and the difficulty of using social media in their future career. They also recognized the effect of algorithms and social justice issues of accessing technology. This evidence demonstrates the active learning exercises used in this course successfully improved students’ digital literacy.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-8803
P. Mascareñas, A. Valles
Dr. Bernadine Healy was the president of the American Red Cross when the terrorist attacks took place on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath, the American Red Cross implored the American public for donations of money to help those affected by these attacks. This is not an unusual or unreasonable request from this charitable organization, which provides assistance and relief to victims of disasters. The difference in this case study rests within the management of the $564 million collected. Rather than distributing all the donated money to victims of the attacks, Healy created the Liberty Disaster Relief Fund to create a blood reserve/storage system and saved $200 million of the donations for future disasters. Healy would be forced to resign by her board. This case study looks at both sides of this debate: Was Healy being a responsible steward of the money, or did she mislead the American public? Subscribe to JNEL
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Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-9000
Tara S. Counts, J. Jones
Fundraising is critical to the success of nonprofit organizations and a particularly unique area of nonprofit management education. Improvements to fundraiser education can echo throughout the sector, and more effective fundraisers will raise more charitable dollars for pro-social missions. However, little is known about fundraiser education. In this article, we identify the number and type of fundraiser education programs in the United States, analyze the scope of these fundraiser education programs, and identify and provide recommendations regarding the unique training needs of fundraisers. Specifically, we recommend fundraising training programs be accessible to practitioners, be holistic in nature, be attentive to the development of soft skills, and engender a desire for leadership—a desire to help donors and nonprofit organizations solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. Subscribe to JNEL
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Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-8970
M. Wooddell
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Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-8856
C. Evans, Kathleen A. Dodaro, L. Lange
This case study provides discussion in ethics, human resource practices, and nonprofit management. It is presented in the form of a video narrative showing two points of view and the ultimate outcome of a common nonprofit recruiting and compensation tool. Nonprofits are often expected to accomplish great things with limited funding. They frequently suffer from higher turnover rates; low wages and limited benefits are reasons that people leave the field (Guo, Brown, Ashcraft, Yoshioka, & Dong, 2011; Walk, Schinnenburg, & Handy, 2014) Subscribe to JNEL
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Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-10071
R. Bernstein, Jeff Aulgur, Judy Freiwirth
We are pleased to present these five case studies delving into racial equity, diversity, and inclusion in governance. They provide wonderful learning tools for use in the classroom and training workshops and have been designed for instructors, consultants, students, board members, and executive directors. The set of cases is followed by a study guide for use in conjunction with all the cases. The guide includes instructortrainer and student-training participant sections with activities, discussion questions, and a list of print and electronic resources. Subscribe to JNEL
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Pub Date : 2019-10-10DOI: 10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-8958
K. Keeney
Nonprofit arts organizations not only struggle to apply traditional program design and evaluation techniques to artistic outcomes but also have limited capacity in carrying out such practices that are essential to sound programs and organizational learning. This research positions graduate-level service-learning programs both as a solution for arts organizations with limited capacity in program design and as a robust pedagogical tool for students studying program theory in the nonprofit context. Framed by the complexities facing nonprofit arts organizations in employing traditional management techniques, I describe a graduate-level service-learning project that offers evidence of impact for increased organizational and student learning. Additionally, the research provides lessons learned for equivalent experiential learning settings, specifically in the nonprofit arts context. Subscribe to JNEL
{"title":"Employing Service-Learning to Reinforce Effective Program Theory in the Arts","authors":"K. Keeney","doi":"10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-8958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18666/jnel-2019-v9-i4-8958","url":null,"abstract":"Nonprofit arts organizations not only struggle to apply traditional program design and evaluation techniques to artistic outcomes but also have limited capacity in carrying out such practices that are essential to sound programs and organizational learning. This research positions graduate-level service-learning programs both as a solution for arts organizations with limited capacity in program design and as a robust pedagogical tool for students studying program theory in the nonprofit context. Framed by the complexities facing nonprofit arts organizations in employing traditional management techniques, I describe a graduate-level service-learning project that offers evidence of impact for increased organizational and student learning. Additionally, the research provides lessons learned for equivalent experiential learning settings, specifically in the nonprofit arts context. Subscribe to JNEL","PeriodicalId":43170,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85009228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-08DOI: 10.18666/JNEL-2019-V9-I3-8876
Zhiwei Zhang
Nonprofit organizations rely on private donations as a source of funding. As a result, this paper examines the effects of factors that shape public perceptions about nonprofits, such as nonprofit organizations’ professionalism and performance and their awareness of needs, on charitable giving from private donors. Because giving is likely to depend on particular characteristics of a sector, the analysis was limited to one sector of nonprofit organizations, nursing homes. The empirical results, based on 8-year panel data, suggest nursing home characteristics that affect private donations to this sector. This research is beneficial to scholars and practitioners who are interested in learning more about private giving. Policy implications are also discussed in detail. Subscribe to JNEL
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