Misty McElroy had no idea when she crafted her senior undergraduate capstone project at Portland State University in 2001 that she was starting a worldwide phenomenon—the Rock ‘n’ Roll Campfor Girls. What started as a week-long summer camp for girls ages 8 to 17 to teach them how to play rock music has since blossomed into an organization with over 40 branches worldwide, serving 3000 girls every year and affecting the lives of thousands more women and girls in the surrounding communities. The Girls Rock Camp Alliance operates as the organizing body for the dozens of Rock Camps across the globe. Together, these organizations work to build girls’ self-esteem through music creation and performance and further, to create feminist cultural change. Rock Camp, like so many other nonprofits, exists on a political continuum, with radical direct-action groups on the far left and mainstream, foundation-funded organizations on the right. Misty’s original vision for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls was rooted in radical feminist politics that followed in the footsteps of Riot Grrrl and made an explicit connection between girls playing music and political movement. While feminist politics continue to form the foundation of the work that every Rock Camp does, from its pedagogy and curriculum in its programming to its organizational structure, and every organizer will agree that Rock Camp is a fundamentally feminist organization, it has made a series of choices over the past decade that now places it closer to the center of the continuum.

Nonprofit fundraisers tend to neglect Generation Y as a prospective target audience because they do not feel they provide a worthwhile return on investment. In reality, this age group made over $9 billion in charitable gifts in 2009, and most who made gifts expect to maintain their support in the future (Bhagat, Loeb, and Rovner 2010). Though their giving capacity ranks far behind that of the older generations that make up the majority of nonprofit donor rosters today, as the population ages, older donors will eventually vacate that position and it will be filled by younger donors as they mature in age and means. To establish strong foundations for future support within this cohort, it is important to begin building relationships with them sooner rather than later. Because Generation Y communicates and interacts in significantly different ways from their parents' and grandparents' generations, fundraisers must develop new strategies for reaching and engaging this audience to steward them into long-term giving relationships. / text

Misty McElroy had no idea when she crafted her senior undergraduate capstone project at Portland State University in 2001 that she was starting a worldwide phenomenon—the Rock ‘n’ Roll Campfor Girls. What started as a week-long summer camp for girls ages 8 to 17 to teach them how to play rock music has since blossomed into an organization with over 40 branches worldwide, serving 3000 girls every year and affecting the lives of thousands more women and girls in the surrounding communities. The Girls Rock Camp Alliance operates as the organizing body for the dozens of Rock Camps across the globe. Together, these organizations work to build girls’ self-esteem through music creation and performance and further, to create feminist cultural change. Rock Camp, like so many other nonprofits, exists on a political continuum, with radical direct-action groups on the far left and mainstream, foundation-funded organizations on the right. Misty’s original vision for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls was rooted in radical feminist politics that followed in the footsteps of Riot Grrrl and made an explicit connection between girls playing music and political movement. While feminist politics continue to form the foundation of the work that every Rock Camp does, from its pedagogy and curriculum in its programming to its organizational structure, and every organizer will agree that Rock Camp is a fundamentally feminist organization, it has made a series of choices over the past decade that now places it closer to the center of the continuum.

The diploma thesis is focused on the problems of corruption in the Czech Republic, from the viewpoint of non-state non-profit organizations. The thesis provides a general overview of engaging organizations in the struggle against corruption, basic information on their position in the civil society, role in anticorruption activities and mainly their individual dissimilarities. The key part of this thesis analyses concrete corruption causes, monitors their impact on the society and at the same time it evaluates involvement and contribution of the organization to the result of the given cause. The final evaluation monitors efficiency of this activity from the viewpoint of reparation of the original status or in case of corruption revelation, it monitors determination and penalization of responsible people. It looks for reasons of unsuccessful interventions of non-profit organizations, compares individual procedures and specifics and interconnections of other activities of anticorruption organizations. It tries to suggest a possible way of efficiency measurement by the comparison of revenues and expenses on the given cause and evaluates the position of non-profit organizations in the struggle against corruption as compared to its own transparency.

My dissertation examines the enrollment patterns of White children in traditional U.S. public schools in 2010. I link schools to their attendance boundaries to compare the percentage of White children living in a catchment area to the percentage of White children who attend the local neighborhood school. I find that just under a third of schools are roughly representative of their catchment area (29%), the plurality are underrepresented White (40%), and the remaining 31% are overrepresented White. Descriptive analyses determine that White underrepresentation is more common in urban schools. White underrepresented schools tend to be in poorer neighborhoods and have a higher-than-average share of students in poverty and students with limited English proficiency. I investigate whether there is a connection between White representation and school quality outcomes. I focus on four facets of school quality that I hypothesize might be responsive to White representation: 1) school funding metrics, 2) school-supporting nonprofit presence, 3) standardized test scores, and 4) Gifted and Talented programming. Overall, the findings here offer mixed support for the theory of “opportunity hoarding,” in which White underrepresented schools receive fewer resources. Taken together, descriptive analyses find that White underrepresentation is largely associated with negative outcomes. White underrepresented schools have less public and charitable funding than their peers. White underrepresented schools are lower performing academically than White overrepresented schools, although they are not clearly academically different from representative White schools. White underrepresented schools are not necessarily less likely to have a GAT program, but when they do have a GAT program, it disproportionately targets White students. Furthermore, multivariate analyses reveal that the bivariate relationships between White representation and school outcomes are not entirely explained by the percentage of White students in a school, nor other covariates. This suggests that there is a meaningful distinction between White representation and the percentage of White students in a school. In other words, White representation tells us something about a school, net of the presence of White students. However, this was not the case for every multivariate model in the study. I find a significant negative association between White representation and school funding. White underrepresented schools have significantly lower mean teacher salaries and per-pupil salary expenditures, net of the percentage of White students within the school. This could be evidence that disproportionately low White enrollment leads to diminished school resources or less experienced teachers. Alternately, it could be that White families are more adept than non-White families at avoiding under-resourced schools. I find no evidence of a connection between White representation and whether a school has a school-supporting nonprofit. Instead, the economic composition of the school appears to be a more important driver of school nonprofit presence and nonprofit revenue. I also find no connection between White representation and test scores. However, White representation appears to influence the racial composition of GAT programs. Schools that are less White than their neighborhoods tend to have GAT programs that are significantly Whiter than the schools. / Sociology

The overpopulation of domestic animals has become an ongoing problem across the United States. Approximately 1.5 million animals are being euthanized in the United States every year. In fact, shelters euthanize about 23 % of the animals they take in. However, the euthanasia rate would be much greater without animal rescues, which are different than animal shelters. Animal rescues are unique from shelters because they are not government-funded, and they do not usually have a physical location. Because of these factors, animal rescues rely on volunteers to care for the animals they save and donors to fund their operations. Animal rescues heavily depend on social media to fulfill many of their needs, including fundraising and volunteer recruitment, which makes the nonprofits particularly vulnerable to failure without a social media following. This research combined a content analysis of animal rescues' Facebook posts with a survey of the rescues to determine which Facebook affordances and message frames animal rescues used online were positively related to online and offline success metrics. The content analysis focused on analyzing posts for message frames, and the survey provided information about annual success. The combination of a content analysis and a survey uncovered relationships between Facebook characteristics, online message frames, and offline success metrics.

This study examines the relationship between government funding and faith-based nonprofit organizational development and professionalization. By conducting an online survey of 1,632 executive directors at Habitat for Humanity affiliates in the United States, followed by telephone and email interviews with selected leaders from the organization, this mixed-method case study examined the organizational tensions, opportunities, bureaucratization, and professionalization of a religiously-based nonprofit as it transitioned from primarily private funding to broad acceptance of public monies. Habitat for Humanity provided an excellent prospect for this research, as the organization announced one year before the study began that its 27-year tradition of not seeking or accepting government funding (with the exception of grants for infrastructure) would change in July 2006. The study utilized Barry Dym and Harry Hutson's stages of organizational development, particularly their concept of professionalization, as an analytical framework for the study, with particular emphasis on the potential effects government funding may have on Habitat's organizational structure. The study suggested a close relationship between increasing professionalization at the organization's national office and the decision of national leadership to allow local affiliates to pursue government funding for construction. In addition, survey and interview data indicated that this change has been accompanied by a corresponding decrease in emphasis on religious mission, or at least a less conservative (and in some cases more pluralistic) approach to religious aims, than was evident in a 1995 International Partner training session in which the researcher participated. / Ph. D.

This dissertation includes three essays about nonprofit organizations. The first essay investigates how the availability of financial and intellectual capital in the macro-environment influences the formation of nonprofit organizations. The analysis is an extension of Weisbrod's (1975) Heterogeneity Hypothesis and Ben-Ner and van Hoomissen's (1991) "social cohesion" principle. Findings indicate financial capital and intellectual capital are important to the formation of nonprofits, but the strength and direction of their influence varies by industry. The second essay applies Stakeholder Theory to predict the influence of board members, donors, and beneficiaries on nonprofits' performance. The study incorporates 134 charities from six different industries over a five year period and finds nonprofit performance is driven by the interests of the most salient stakeholders. Furthermore, the analysis indicates nonprofit stakeholders have the ability to control the behaviors of managers; behaviors which are not necessarily aligned with mission statements. No evidence, however, suggests salient stakeholders with shared interests collaborate for mutual benefit. Stakeholder Theory is also used in the third essay to predict the moderating role stakeholders fulfill in the relationship between environmental uncertainty and nonprofits' strategic decisions. The study incorporates the same database as the second essay and discovers the influence of environmental uncertainty on nonprofits' strategic decision depends on the ability of salient stakeholders to diversify their interests. The identified effect encourages Stakeholder Theory applications adopt a dual-perspective approach to the concept of salience; such applications need to account for the salience of the stakeholder to the organization and the salience of the organization to the stakeholder. / Business Administration/Strategic Management

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A governança em organizações do Terceiro Setor é uma das áreas nas quais o tema governança se mostra essencial para o estudo organizacional. Dentre os vários tipos de entidades que compõem esse segmento esta tese enfoca enquanto categoria analisada as fundações empresariais com atuação no Brasil. Essa escolha foi devido à crescente importância econômica e, principalmente, o potencial dessas organizações enquanto promotoras de desenvolvimento social. O investimento social privado dessa forma organizado tem um potencial de transformar realidades socioambientais e colaborar com o avanço de práticas de Responsabilidade Social Empresarial. O estudo descritivo-exploratório foi feito a partir de quatro casos: Fundação Iochpe, Fundação Itaú Social, Fundação Orsa e Fundação Telefônica. Foram realizadas análises documentais, entrevistados diretores, superintendentes executivos ou pessoas do staff diretamente envolvidas na relação com o Conselho Curador e outros órgãos consultivos e, aplicado um questionário aos membros do Conselho Curador. O objetivo foi verificar se os participantes de conselhos curadores exercem suas funções, a partir da perspectiva de desempenho esperado no que se refere aos seguintes itens de monitoramento: determinação de missão e propósito, supervisão de programas e serviços, planejamento estratégico, controles orçamentários, avaliação do gestor / executivo. Também visou conhecer os procedimentos de indicação, interação e capacitação dos conselheiros, além das relações que se estabelecem entre estes, os instituidores e o staff. Dentre os resultados encontrados verificou-se que há forte influência das empresas instituidoras na composição e funcionamento dos Conselhos Curadores, bem como na gestão das fundações empresariais, seguindo-se a Filantropia Empresarial Estratégica como fundamento das relações interinstitucionais. Também se averiguou que há divergências entre as funções esperadas no exercício dos conselheiros e sua real atuação. / Governance in organizations in the Third Sector is one of the areas in which the theme of governance shows itself to be essential for organizational studies. Within the various types of entities that compose this segment, this thesis focuses on the category of corporate foundations with activities in Brazil. This choice was due to the growing economic importance and, principally, the potential of these organizations in terms of promoters of social development. This organized form of private social investment has the potential of transforming socio-environmental realities and collaborating with the advance of the practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. This descriptive - exploratory study was done based on four cases: Iochpe Foundation, Itaú Social Foundation, Orsa Foundation and Telefônica Foundation. The research is based on documental analysis, interviews of directors, executive superintendents, or staff persons directly involved in the relationship with the board of directors and other consulting organs, and the application of a questionnaire to the members of the board of directors. The objective was to verify if the participants of boards exercise their functions, based on the perspective of expected performance in reference to the following items monitored: determination of mission and purpose, supervision of programs and services, strategic planning, budget controls, management / executive evaluation. The research also sought to study indication procedures, interaction and training of the council members, as well as relations between themselves, founders, and the staff. Among the results, it was verified that there exists a strong influences of the founding corporations in the composition and functioning of the boards, as well as in the management of the corporate foundations, following Strategic Corporate Philanthropy as the basis for inter-institutional relations. The existence of differences between expected functions, in the exercise of board\'s members, and their actual performance was also discovered.