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Volunteerism at the Intersection of NGOs and Ethnographic Research

January 16, 2021 a1623254 TA blog posts

By Saidouri Zomaya, Graduate Teaching Assistant When I first started my volunteering journey at World Relief Chicago, little did I know the kind of impact

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2020 Nonprofit Headlines and Hardship

December 23, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman The two most significant events that affected, or are affecting, nonprofits in 2020 was the killing of George Floyd and the

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Philanthropy and Giving During the 2020 Holiday Season

December 9, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman It’s hard to underestimate the importance of the holiday season for most nonprofit organizations, especially during COVID19.  About 70 percent of Americans

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Nonprofit Capacity Building: What does the research say?

November 10, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman Nonprofit capacity broadly refers to a number of different organizational dimensions related to the processes, practices, and people that the organization

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Towards Viewing Communities as Intellectual Spaces

October 29, 2020 a1623254 speaker series

By Dr. Laura Ruth Johnson I have been conducting research in communities and within community-based organizations for almost two decades. Prior to attending graduate school,

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The End of an Era or Opportunity for Renewal: Veteran-Serving Nonprofits

October 12, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman                           With Veterans Day coming next month, a day

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The Value of Nonprofit Labor and Why It Matters to the Nonprofit Sector

August 31, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman Volunteers are important to almost all nonprofit organizations because they extend the work of paid staff or in some cases, are

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10 Years Strong: The Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies

August 19, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

The Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies grew out of a university-wide strategic planning initiative in the fall of 2007 where faculty and staff could

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The Proverbial “Bootstraps”

August 5, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman The mythic Horatio Alger narrative of pulling one’s self up by one’s bootstraps is one of the most dangerous and damaging

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning for the Great Unknown

July 28, 2020 a1623254 Uncategorized

By Dr. Alicia Schatteman Every nonprofit strategic plan that was to cover the year 2020 is obsolete, or is it?  Strategic planning is a process

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