Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16457813668643
K. Kehl, Larissa M. Sundermann
New projects by non-profit organisations and civil society initiatives face the challenge of obtaining financial support in the start-up phase. In recent years, crowdfunding has been cited as one of the solutions to this problem. However, this type of funding is associated with a high level of effort and expertise that many projects cannot afford, and trust issues on the part of donors. Foundations can remedy this by organising a crowdfunding competition and, in addition to the financial benefits, using their reputation to build trust, create public visibility and provide intangible support to projects in terms of capacity building, networking and professionalisation. Based on a companion study to a model introduced by a German foundation, this article explores the benefits that non-profit projects derive from an approach combining crowdfunding and foundation grants. It finds that during a crowdfunding competition the perceived relevance of non-monetary support increases at the expense of financial benefits. However, there is evidence that this change in perception occurs regardless of whether the foundation provides a lot or only a moderate amount of non-monetary support.
{"title":"Breaking new ground: combining crowdfunding and foundation grants","authors":"K. Kehl, Larissa M. Sundermann","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16457813668643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16457813668643","url":null,"abstract":"New projects by non-profit organisations and civil society initiatives face the challenge of obtaining financial support in the start-up phase. In recent years, crowdfunding has been cited as one of the solutions to this problem. However, this type of funding is associated with a high level of effort and expertise that many projects cannot afford, and trust issues on the part of donors. Foundations can remedy this by organising a crowdfunding competition and, in addition to the financial benefits, using their reputation to build trust, create public visibility and provide intangible support to projects in terms of capacity building, networking and professionalisation. Based on a companion study to a model introduced by a German foundation, this article explores the benefits that non-profit projects derive from an approach combining crowdfunding and foundation grants. It finds that during a crowdfunding competition the perceived relevance of non-monetary support increases at the expense of financial benefits. However, there is evidence that this change in perception occurs regardless of whether the foundation provides a lot or only a moderate amount of non-monetary support.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66308989","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16420915761042
L. Todd
Facebook has become an essential tool for hospices in their engagement with their communities online, and during the COVID-19 pandemic it became a lifeline to many hospices as a way to continue communicating with supporters. Yet, there is a severe lack of academic research into how hospices can use the tool to successfully generate engagement. This piece of research aims to fill this gap and create practical recommendations by comparing Facebook posts curated by hospices of different sizes who use the same technique with different levels of interaction. This highlights that the focus of research needs to move away from what content charities are creating and look at how they are creating it.
{"title":"It is not what you do, it is how you do it: exploring the techniques UK hospices use on Facebook to create online engagement","authors":"L. Todd","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16420915761042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16420915761042","url":null,"abstract":"Facebook has become an essential tool for hospices in their engagement with their communities online, and during the COVID-19 pandemic it became a lifeline to many hospices as a way to continue communicating with supporters. Yet, there is a severe lack of academic research into how hospices can use the tool to successfully generate engagement. This piece of research aims to fill this gap and create practical recommendations by comparing Facebook posts curated by hospices of different sizes who use the same technique with different levels of interaction. This highlights that the focus of research needs to move away from what content charities are creating and look at how they are creating it.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309142","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16417596703081
Jon Dean, Kimberly Wiley
{"title":"Critical theory, qualitative methods and the non-profit and voluntary sector: an introduction to the special issue","authors":"Jon Dean, Kimberly Wiley","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16417596703081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16417596703081","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p> </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66307717","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080522x16454630207045
N. Cox, Susanne Martikke, Holly Cumbers, Lucy Webb
Young people leaving out-of-home care experience higher levels of emotional, social, educational and vocational disadvantage when compared with peers from stable home-care environments. Care leavers’ educational trajectories may be interrupted, their development of self-identity during transition through adolescence disturbed, and their social and emotional development disrupted due to their diminished accumulation of social and cultural capital. This article presents a re-analysis of the qualitative data derived from a mixed-method study of the experience of young care leavers engaged with a community-based volunteering project in the United Kingdom. We describe how young care leavers developed self-efficacy through volunteering and show how care leavers create a space for agency and self-work, negotiate and cultivate identities independent from statutory supports, and situate themselves within wider relational and social contexts. Implications for future research, policy and practice with younger people leaving statutory care are explored.
{"title":"Reinventing selves and connections through community volunteering: how care leavers and their supporters create a space for agency and self-work","authors":"N. Cox, Susanne Martikke, Holly Cumbers, Lucy Webb","doi":"10.1332/204080522x16454630207045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080522x16454630207045","url":null,"abstract":"Young people leaving out-of-home care experience higher levels of emotional, social, educational and vocational disadvantage when compared with peers from stable home-care environments. Care leavers’ educational trajectories may be interrupted, their development of self-identity during transition through adolescence disturbed, and their social and emotional development disrupted due to their diminished accumulation of social and cultural capital. This article presents a re-analysis of the qualitative data derived from a mixed-method study of the experience of young care leavers engaged with a community-based volunteering project in the United Kingdom. We describe how young care leavers developed self-efficacy through volunteering and show how care leavers create a space for agency and self-work, negotiate and cultivate identities independent from statutory supports, and situate themselves within wider relational and social contexts. Implications for future research, policy and practice with younger people leaving statutory care are explored.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309528","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16386565594488
Iwona Nowakowska
The number of people engaging in volunteer firefighting is on the decline. It is therefore important to understand what factors on a personal and social level and from the three stages of the volunteer process model – antecedents, experiences and consequences – might be linked to starting and sustaining engagement in volunteer firefighting. To do this, a qualitative, interview-based study was carried out using a sample of ten volunteer firefighters from across Poland. The data were gathered and analysed using the interpretative phenomenological analysis methodological framework. The data enabled information regarding the stage of the volunteer process and the motivations behind the engagement to be grouped and interpreted. The implications for retention strategies are set out, with a particular focus on the social support of firefighters, the role of coping skills, relationships with the local community, the quality of relationships within the firefighting brigade, the personal development of volunteers and how firefighters make meaning of their service.
{"title":"“Don’t call it work”: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of volunteer firefighting in young adults based on the volunteer process model","authors":"Iwona Nowakowska","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16386565594488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16386565594488","url":null,"abstract":"The number of people engaging in volunteer firefighting is on the decline. It is therefore important to understand what factors on a personal and social level and from the three stages of the volunteer process model – antecedents, experiences and consequences – might be linked to starting and sustaining engagement in volunteer firefighting. To do this, a qualitative, interview-based study was carried out using a sample of ten volunteer firefighters from across Poland. The data were gathered and analysed using the interpretative phenomenological analysis methodological framework. The data enabled information regarding the stage of the volunteer process and the motivations behind the engagement to be grouped and interpreted. The implications for retention strategies are set out, with a particular focus on the social support of firefighters, the role of coping skills, relationships with the local community, the quality of relationships within the firefighting brigade, the personal development of volunteers and how firefighters make meaning of their service.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66307481","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16445716346083
Dipendra Kc
This research note highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in developing countries. It takes Nepal as a case study and illustrates the effects of the pandemic on NGOs in the country and their contribution to the response to and recovery from the pandemic. It presents the findings of two surveys, one conducted in 2020 and one conducted in 2020–21, among 482 NGOs. The study’s findings suggest that NGOs faced a three-fold pressure in terms of a spike in demand for their services, a reduction of funding and other supporting resources and a challenge in dealing with state-imposed restrictions on mobility.
{"title":"COVID-19 and non-governmental organisations in Nepal","authors":"Dipendra Kc","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16445716346083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16445716346083","url":null,"abstract":"This research note highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in developing countries. It takes Nepal as a case study and illustrates the effects of the pandemic on NGOs in the country and their contribution to the response to and recovery from the pandemic. It presents the findings of two surveys, one conducted in 2020 and one conducted in 2020–21, among 482 NGOs. The study’s findings suggest that NGOs faced a three-fold pressure in terms of a spike in demand for their services, a reduction of funding and other supporting resources and a challenge in dealing with state-imposed restrictions on mobility.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66309245","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16383852007870
Lili Wang, Peiyao Li
This article examines whether religiosity moderates the influence of government assistance use on the charitable giving of Muslim and non-Muslim families in China. Using data from the 2016 China Family Panel Studies survey, the article finds that Muslims are as equally likely as non-Muslims to donate to charity, but that Muslim donors, on average, donate more than their counterparts. Additionally, Muslim donors and donors of other religions increase the amount of their giving when they receive more government assistance, while non-religious donors reduce their giving. Furthermore, as the level of government assistance increases, the donation amount grows at a much higher rate among Muslim donors than among donors of other religions. The theoretical contributions of the study and avenues for future research are discussed.
{"title":"Government assistance, religiosity and charitable giving: comparing Muslim and non-Muslim families in China","authors":"Lili Wang, Peiyao Li","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16383852007870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16383852007870","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines whether religiosity moderates the influence of government assistance use on the charitable giving of Muslim and non-Muslim families in China. Using data from the 2016 China Family Panel Studies survey, the article finds that Muslims are as equally likely as non-Muslims to donate to charity, but that Muslim donors, on average, donate more than their counterparts. Additionally, Muslim donors and donors of other religions increase the amount of their giving when they receive more government assistance, while non-religious donors reduce their giving. Furthermore, as the level of government assistance increases, the donation amount grows at a much higher rate among Muslim donors than among donors of other religions. The theoretical contributions of the study and avenues for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66307406","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16417601566087
E. Lau
This is a study of a school-based volunteering programme; an ethnography of six girls enrolled onto the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme (DofE) at their secondary school in a deprived coastal community in the United Kingdom. Building on voluntary sector research into young people’s volunteering and feminist research into the systematic gender inequalities created by school structures, this article explores how often young people were coerced into school-based volunteering and how, in this case, the coercion was gendered. The researcher observed how the school’s prefect group, based on relations with school leaders and teachers, were recruited onto the DofE and then divided by gendered norms that ensured the girls and boys volunteered with different motivations and were incentivised and rewarded differently. Classed and gendered constructed identities, reinforced by school structures and practices, were evident in gendered school duties and caring responsibilities given to the girls. This article raises important considerations for voluntary sector–school partnerships that aim to empower and improve student opportunities. In this study, rather than challenge and empower young people, school-based volunteering served to reproduce societal classed and gendered inequalities.
{"title":"Girls who learn to serve: an ethnography exploring the gendered experience of school-based volunteering","authors":"E. Lau","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16417601566087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16417601566087","url":null,"abstract":"This is a study of a school-based volunteering programme; an ethnography of six girls enrolled onto the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme (DofE) at their secondary school in a deprived coastal community in the United Kingdom. Building on voluntary sector research into young people’s volunteering and feminist research into the systematic gender inequalities created by school structures, this article explores how often young people were coerced into school-based volunteering and how, in this case, the coercion was gendered. The researcher observed how the school’s prefect group, based on relations with school leaders and teachers, were recruited onto the DofE and then divided by gendered norms that ensured the girls and boys volunteered with different motivations and were incentivised and rewarded differently. Classed and gendered constructed identities, reinforced by school structures and practices, were evident in gendered school duties and caring responsibilities given to the girls. This article raises important considerations for voluntary sector–school partnerships that aim to empower and improve student opportunities. In this study, rather than challenge and empower young people, school-based volunteering served to reproduce societal classed and gendered inequalities.","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66307438","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16417601413112
A. Sanders
This study examines institutional discourses about representation and participation in the Welsh third sector–government partnership. It applies a feminist institutionalist lens to understand how the representation of equalities third sector organisations is enabled and constrained. The theoretical foundation brings together diverging literatures on third sector–state relations, democracy theory and understandings of descriptive representation in the equalities literature. Using semi-structured elite interviews, it employs critical discourse analysis to scrutinise policy actors’ partnership accounts. Findings reveal how equalities representation is restricted by institutional expectations for the third sector’s unified voice. Furthermore, institutionalist discourses about the the ‘usual suspects’ and scrutiny of the grassroot–professional paradox reveal how Welsh equalities representation is under threat. This analysis reveals the complex interaction of diverging uses of representation and participation that serve to undermine the legitimacy of expert knowledge on inequalities to inform state policy making in favour of populist constructions of the wider citizen voice.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1332/204080521x16124571637041
Sidonie Bertrand-Shelton
{"title":"The Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler (eds) (2020)","authors":"Sidonie Bertrand-Shelton","doi":"10.1332/204080521x16124571637041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/204080521x16124571637041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45084,"journal":{"name":"Voluntary Sector Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45451354","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}
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