By Kristin Clark Miller, NIU Foundation and NNGO Staff Associate Do you remember being little and having an adult ask you what you wanted to
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Research Translation: Nonprofit Leadership and Governance in Times of Crisis
By Saidouri Zomaya, NNGO Graduate Assistant In this article, Caitlin McMullin and Paloma Raggo examine the roles of nonprofit boards within organizations and how they
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Libraries: The Original Open Access Community and Information Center
“The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.” ― John Cotton Dana, A Library Primer (1903). Libraries have been, and will likely always
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Research Translation: Community-Based Internships: How a Hybridized High-Impact Practice Affects Students, Community Partners, and the University
Research Translations: This is the first in a series of posts where the Center will review a recent academic journal article and summarize it so
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Book Review “Humanity’s Last Stand, A Call for Justice Using an Anthropological Imagination”
By Saidouri Zomaya, Graduate Assistant How often do we come across a book that transforms our understanding of fundamental issues impacting society today? And how
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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
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
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
Read moreNonprofit Capacity Building: What does the research say?
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
Read moreTowards Viewing Communities as Intellectual Spaces
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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