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This article reviews research on motivation of employees in the nonprofit sector, with a major emphasis on the motivation of teachers and hospital nursing staff. Although both areas are widely researched in the nonprofit sector, empirical... more
The development of the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), a nine-subscale measure of employee job satisfaction applicable specifically to human service, public, and nonprofit sector organizations, is described. The item selection, item... more
The CNP Project in New Zealand is funded by the Combined Community Trusts of New Zealand, the Ministry of Social Development, and the Tindall Foundation. ... Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non-Profit Sector: Chair: Garth... more
"The FOREMAP project was an initiative co-funded by the European Foundation Centre and the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development. Its objectives were to develop a mapping methodology and... more
Drawing directly on the historical knowledge and contemporary scholars and nonprofit practitioners, the Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Project of the Union Institute's Center for Public Policy developed educational and training... more
Educational Administration Quarterly Vol. 44, No. 3 (August 2008) 424-435 ... Exploring the Multiple Usages of the Concept ... Background: The term distributed leadership is now widely used among scholars and practitioners in the field of... more
More and more nonprofit organizations employ business strategies to be more effective and to achieve their social goals. Social entrepreneurship is an option for increasingly more people who want to change the society for the better. The... more
Civil society organizations are found in all possible parts of Swedish society, conducting a multitude of different tasks, involving all types of people in a rainbow-like organizational plethora. We can understand civil society... more
As a consequence of changing domestic and international socio-political environment, public diplomacy policies require relational, networked and...
This paper analyzes both the political discourse and the reality of Czech civil society. It describes how the concept of civil society has emerged in a difficult ideological context, and sets out how policy towards it has developed, also... more
Page 1. http://nvs.sagepub.com/ Quarterly Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector http://nvs.sagepub. com/content/36/4_suppl/80S The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0899764007305050 September 2007 2007 36: 80S... more
In the late 1980s, the nonprofit sector within the United States introduced a new philanthropic paradigm, the cause-based fundraising endurance-training program. Participants in such programs raise funds for a charitable cause and, in... more