The nonprofit starvation cycle: Does overhead spending really impact program outcomes?

H Altamimi, Q Liu - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The nonprofit starvation cycle raises a fundamental question about the impact of overhead
spending on nonprofit program outcomes and organizational effectiveness. We test this …

The hidden cost of trustworthiness

GE Mitchell, TD Calabrese - Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The theory of the nonprofit institutional form developed by Henry Hansmann emphasizes the
importance of organizational trustworthiness in a sector defined by hard-to-measure outputs …

Do donors penalize nonprofits with higher non-program costs? A meta-analysis of donor overhead aversion

CK Hung, MA Hager, Y Tian - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Disparate research on overhead aversion and nonprofit starvation can benefit from a
conceptual model that explains their relationships. Following resurrection of such a model …

Misuse, misunderstanding and misinterpretation of nonprofit accounting information

JD Lecy, EAM Searing, T Li - Research Handbook on Nonprofit …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Like most other goods and services, accounting information has both producers and
consumers. Significant investments have been made in quality control on the production …

Developing the Field of Behavioral Nonprofit Management

H Qu, D Mason - Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2023 - journal-bpa.org
We define behavioral nonprofit management as the study of the micro-foundations of
nonprofit management through analyzing the behavior and attitudes of individuals and …

The nonprofit starvation cycle: The extent of overhead ratios' manipulation, distrust, and ramifications

M Kim, É Charbonneau, J Sowa - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
While little evidence supports the notion that financially responsible nonprofits must maintain
low overhead ratios, the persistent preference for reduced overhead costs endures. Our …

Effects of donation collection methods on donation amount: Nudging donation for the cause and overhead

K Suk, T Mudita - Psychology & Marketing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This research examines the influence of donation collection methods on the amounts of
donation, focusing on donations for the cause and overhead. This research examines the …

Does mandatory disclosure matter? The case of nonprofit fundraising

P Barber, MM Farwell, B Galle - Nonprofit and Voluntary …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Do donors seek out potentially adverse information about organizations making fundraising
appeals? Do they react when it is readily available? Do they draw negative inferences when …

Examining nonprofit accounting using behavioral research methods

S Buchheit, LM Parsons, KA Smith - Research Handbook on …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
The majority of accounting research studies use archival data to test hypotheses, and
accounting studies that explore issues in the nonprofit sector are no different. Mercado …

Understanding the limits of transnational NGO power: Forms, norms, and the architecture

HP Schmitz, GE Mitchell - International Studies Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A growing chorus of critics have called upon transnational nongovernmental organizations
(TNGOs) from the Global North to “decolonize” their practices, to “shift the power” to the …