Despite the availability of a wide range of literature on what can be construed as
philanthropic behavior in Africa, there is limited conceptual discussion on what constitutes …

This article adds to conceptualisations of philanthropy. Applying an ontological approach
within an evolutionary perspective, it advances an analogous African narrative of pro-social …

Environmental activism organizations depend on recruiting and retaining individuals willing
to engage in leadership tasks on a voluntary basis. This study examined the resources …

Names: Anheier, Helmut K., 1954–editor.| Toepler, Stefan, editor. Title: The Routledge
companion to nonprofit management/edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Stefan Toepler …

Civil society in Gramscian conception is an arena of hegemonic contestations and therefore
essentially political. Development is also a political process inasmuch as it involves power in …

Both the understanding and measurement of civil society in Africa exhibit severe distortions.
One result is a gross underestimation of the significance of endogeneity in the forms and …

Scholars of volunteering have long excluded the radical, political forms of formal
volunteering from their analytical gaze, especially more contentious social movements and …

While social movements have been shaping the contours of politics for over two centuries,
we have witnessed a resurgence of scholarly interest in them in the last few decades. This is …

Religious organizations are key structural components of Kenyan civil society that have
played or continue to play a critical role in socio-political developments. In the last two and …

Why is giving a ubiquitous human behaviour in Kenya? What shapes Kenyan gifting
practices? This paper argues that philanthropic behaviour is a product of multi-directional …