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Issue IX: December 2024

 

Informal Volunteers in Pandemics: Perception of Risk and Effectiveness of Digital Matching Platforms

Author(s): Dominik Stefan Meier – University of Basel | Amadeus Petrig – Genossenschaft Migros Aare, Bern | Georg von Schnurbein – University of Basel

Provided by: Ksenija Fonovic from Charles University and CSV Lazio.

A pandemic represents a peculiar extraordinary condition. Nevertheless, issues around gauging the willingness of citizens to help in face of an emergency are quite similar to other crisis situations, such as natural disasters or man-provoked catastrophes. How to coordinate spontaneous helping, harmonize the readiness with the actual needs, ensure the safety of all parties involved, avoid further damage?

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Why do people volunteer for refugees? Exploring Volunteer Motivations

Author(s): Maikel Meijeren – Radboud University |Marcel Lubbers – Utrecht University | Peer Scheepers – Radboud University

Provided by: Aleksandra Belina from Good Network Foundation & University of Warsaw

This article addresses the motivations of volunteers to volunteer for refugees. This study is relevant for practitioners because it sheds light on popular and unpopular motivations for volunteering for refugees. It helps better understand and mobilize volunteers by designing more targeted policies to recruit and retain volunteers. What are the key motivations driving individuals to volunteer for refugees? Do these motivations differ from or complement motivations to volunteer in general? And how can these insights enhance volunteer management?

 

Reframing nonprofit’s societal roles to better reflect complexities of modern societies

Author(s): Florentine Maier – WU Vienna University of Economics and Business | Michael Meyer – WU Vienna University of Economics and Business | Christine Burkart – FH Joanneum, Kapfenberg | Berta Terzieva – WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Provided by: Katy Adams from the University of Heidelberg

The role that NPOs should play in society is a widely debated topic in both research and practice. However, a literature review shows that previous research has inadvertently been following an overly simplistic, outdated notion of societal roles of nonprofit organizations. The article addresses this research gap by examining how the literature previously understood nonprofits’ societal roles and suggests how this understanding can be better aligned with contemporary social theory and reality through an updated concept of the societal roles of NPOs using Luhmann’s social systems theory.

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Framing Social Media Messaging: The Nonprofit Perspective in Competitive Fundraising

Author(s): Jamie Levine Daniel – New York University, USA | Cali Curley – University of Miami, USA | Marlene Walk – Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Provided by: Konstantina Koutsoupia

In their article “Message (in)congruence: Tweeting while competing for donations”, the authors explore how nonprofit organisations can apply social media messaging frames to increase donation numbers during competitive campaigns. The key question of their analysis revolves around how different types of these strategies influence the fundraising aspect of competing nonprofits.

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When the winner takes it all: online campaign factors influencing the success of donation-based crowdfunding for charitable causes

Author(s): Noelia Salido-Andres – University of A Coruña | Marta Rey-Garcia – University of A Coruña | Luis Ignacio Alvarez-Gonzalez – University of Oviedo | Rodolfo Vazquez-Casielles – University of Oviedo

Provided by: Jane Trenaman from The HX Consultancy

This study explores the factors that influence the success of crowdfunding campaigns in terms of reaching monetary goals, awareness and social engagement. Previous research has identified geographic scope, beneficiary characteristics, timing and promoter behaviour as key influences on offline campaign success. The objective of this study is to identify new success factors for online campaigns and to deepen the understanding of explanatory factors for online crowdfunding.

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Philanthropy by temporary migrant workers: helping their peers and supporting their homeland

Author(s): Deby Babis – Ariel University & Truman Institute at Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Ester Zychlinski- Ariel University | Maya Kagan- Ariel University

Provided by: Dana R.H. Doan, Ph.D., from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

This mixed methods study examines the philanthropy of Filipino temporary migrant workers in Israel who are ineligible for permanent residency status. More specifically, the study compares their philanthropy in the host country to philanthropy back to their homeland. Based on the findings of this study, which involved traditional and digital ethnography and survey research conducted between 2013 and 2019, the authors recommend an enhanced understanding of diaspora philanthropy and acknowledge the significance of philanthropy by temporary migrant workers.

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Engagement in Philanthropy Among Children from Wealthy Households 

Author(s): Fiona Fairbairn – University of Kent

Provided by: Anna-Leah Ina Gebühr from UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe e.V.

This article explores how children, aged 9 – 11, from wealthy households in the UK engage with philanthropy. It is prompted by the predicted £5.5 trillion wealth transfer and evidence that early childhood experiences with philanthropy lead to higher participation levels in adulthood and shape adult philanthropic behaviour. The key question of this article is to determine what kind of philanthropic citizen children from wealthy households are becoming.

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How public trust and healthcare quality relate to blood donations

Author(s): Caroline Graf –Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Bianca Suanet –Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Pamala Wiepking –Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Eva-Maria Merz –Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Provided by: Lucy Pfliger from France générosités

Is public trust in the healthcare system and healthcare quality related to blood donation behaviour? In this paper, the authors explore the extent of this relation across 28 European countries using survey data. Results show that while public trust in the healthcare system predicts individual propensity to donate blood, the performance of the system does not.

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Environmental Event Volunteers: Changing third-party Motivations, and Management

Author(s): Anna Llumà Trujillo –Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | Lucas C. P. M. Meijs–Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | Guido Berens –Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Provided by: Connor Audsley from the Centre for European Volunteering

This study analyses environmental event volunteering, considering changes in the event episodic volunteering landscape, including demographics, which necessitate a change in how organisations recruit and engage volunteers, and how this may differ in Non-Western countries. How do modern, global volunteers engage with environmental episodic event volunteering, and why?

 

About the ERNOP Research Notes Most academic research on philanthropy is underutilised, while on the other hand, there is a need for practitioners to learn from academics. Given limited resources within the academic and philanthropy community, academic insights should be used as much as possible. However, practitioners rarely have time and access to the work published in academic journals. Besides, not all content of academic papers is relevant for practitioners. At the same time, academics often do not have time and/or skills to make their work accessible for practitioners and, what’s more, they get little rewards for doing so as the number of individual publications is often too limited to build a constituency. Therefore the European Research Network On Philanthropy (ERNOP) –  the academic network of philanthropy researchers in Europe – develops the ERNOP Research Notes. The Research Notes are an initiative by ERNOP and endorsed by the European Fundraising Association (EFA), Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea), the Centre for European Volunteering (CEV) and the European Venture Philanthropy Association  (EVPA).

 

 

 

 

 

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