• Rites of the Soil: Exploring the Ritualized Work of a Nonprofit Community Garden 

  Alexander, James Robert (2022-12)

  The field of ritual studies has often been relegated to the disciplines of religious studies and anthropology, and typically understood within a religious context. However, this dissertation applies the study of ritual ...
• Performance Measurement and Research Practices in Higher Education-Focused Philanthropic Organizations 

  Essien, Frank Swanzy, Jr. (2022-07)

  Performance measurement and research are key components of the operations of philanthropic organizations (both grant-making [GM] and grant-seeking [GS] organizations) —particularly those in the higher education subsector. ...
• Economic Inequality and Prosocial Behavior: A Multidimensional Analysis 

  Yang, Yongzheng (2022-06)

  Rising economic inequality has become a widespread trend and concern in recent decades. Economic inequality is often associated with pernicious consequences such as a decrease in individual health and social cohesion and ...
• Cross-cultural Mutuality: Exploring Philanthropic, Faith-based Partnerships Between Cuba and the United States 

  Goodwin, Jamie L. (2021-11)

  In the global age, grass-roots religious organizations seek to better collaborate across national and cultural borders. Through the theoretical lens of mutuality, this dissertation explores the nature and quality of ...
• Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Case of Evangelicals 

  Clark, Richard S. (2021-10)

  The focus of this study is the experiences of eight individual evangelical social entrepreneurs within their congregations. What type of legitimacy do they seek and/or receive for? Do they sense any pressure to conform/motivations ...
• Reading Between the Lines: Social Contextual Influences on the Production of and Response to Charitable Appeals 

  O'Connor, Heather Ann (2021-07)

  This two-article, mixed-methods dissertation examines social contextual influences on donor and fundraiser behavior. It presents an extension of the Charitable Triad Model to conceptualize philanthropic behavior as a ...
• The Social Capital Fundraising Model 

  Dilworth, Kathryn Frances (2021-04)

  In current higher education fundraising models where alumni are aligned with their degree-granting unit, the academic library struggles to match the fundraising outcomes of its campus peers. A survey of seventy-nine ...
• Managing a Civil Society Organization in Democratic Crisis 

  Kilicalp Iaconantonio, Sevinc Sevda (2020-11)

  This study investigated how civil society organizations (CSOs) adapted to shifts in their external environment that threatened their survival. Specifically, the study considered how CSOs in Turkey were responding to ...
• Cultural Implications of Fair Trade: Aligning Intent with Impact 

  Baugh, Courtney Lynn (2019-12)

  The modern fair trade movement and resulting network emerged during the twentieth century as a strategy to alleviate extreme poverty through creating equitable trading initiatives and markets. Since its emergence, fair ...
• Shaping Philanthropy for Chinese Diaspora in Singapore and Beyond: Family, Ancestry, Identity, Social Norms 

  Harper, Marina Tan (2019-08)

  This study analyzes 21 high and ultra-high-net-worth data points whose entities migrated from mainland China into Southeast Asia, and now, with their descendants, have settled in Singapore. Though removed from China over ...
• Social Entrepreneurship Among Protestant American Congregations: The Role, Theology, Motivations, and Experiences of Lay and Clergy Leaders 

  Austin, Thad Stephen (2019-08)

  This qualitative dissertation contributes to the nascent literature on the study of social enterprise in American congregations through an examination of the role, theology, motivations, and experiences of Protestant ...
• Local Foundations and Medical Research Support in Indianapolis after 1945 

  Lupton, Suzann Weber (2019-07)

  Philanthropy plays an important and often publicly visible role in modern medicine. Names like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Gates are associated with medicine both personally and through the foundations they created. This ...
• Building Civic Infrastructure Organizations: The Lilly Endowment's Experiment to Grow Community Foundations 

  Wang, Xiaoyun (2019-05)

  In the past 50 years, we have seen significant public and philanthropic investment in building civil society in countries around the globe. This includes initiating community foundations to support the development of vibrant ...
• The Joy of Asking: An Analysis of Socioemotional Information in Fundraiser Contact Reports 

  Bout, Maarten (2018-05)

  In this study we examined 381 interactions between Donors and Fundraisers from a large research university by analyzing their Contact Reports. Specifically, we examined whether we could extract measures of fundraiser empathy ...
• Transparency Vs. Delegitimization? Shrinking Space for Foreign-Funded Organizations in Democracies: Hungary and Israel 

  Horvath, Kinga Zsofia (2018-12)

  The shrinking space for civil society and the increasing number of unfavorable legislation affecting the work of non-governmental organizations continue to be burning issues for global philanthropy. Using a case study ...
• International Efforts to Promote Local Resource Mobilization for Philanthropy in Africa: Why the Ford Foundation's Initiatives Failed 

  Akpilima-Atibil, Christiana Ankaasiba (2018-12)

  The exportation of institutions from developed economies to developing countries has been a development strategy that international actors have employed for decades. In the 1990s and early 2000s international donors ...
• Networked Civil Society: Three Essays on the Government–Nonprofit Relationship in China 

  Ma, Ji (2018-11)

  This dissertation has two goals: 1) Introducing data science methodologies to nonprofit studies; 2) Examining the impact of social relations on nonprofits’ social and economic behaviors. Ultimately, this dissertation ...
• A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Social Media Use by Nonprofit Organizations: Towards a Culture of Dialogue 

  Li, Yannan (2018-11)

  Previous empirical studies of social media use by nonprofit organizations suggest that its dialogic potential has not yet been fully realized. Yet drawing from content analysis and surveys, these studies shed little light ...
• Empathy and its implications for prosocial behavior and engagement with the arts 

  Kou, Xiaonan (2018-02-12)

  This dissertation contains three essays examining empathy and its implications for prosocial behavior and arts engagement. Empathy here refers to both compassion and concern for others (emotional empathy) and the ...
• Can too much similarity to self backfire? The effects of different levels of similarity on charitable donations 

  Tian, Yuan (2018-02-22)

  How is charitable giving influenced by other donors’ charitable giving? Do people give more in the presence of other donors who are similar to themselves? Most research suggests that individuals are positively influenced ...

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