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Online donation platforms, albeit a recent phenomenon, are becoming more important for human service nonprofits, allowing them to reach a broader target population of donors at relatively little cost. In developing countries such as India, internet use is flourishing, and this has allowed fund‐raisers to reach a population hitherto difficult to reach. A cross‐sectional research design was utilized to survey donors of one online donation program in India (n = 479). This research was exploratory, investigating the factors that influence people's willingness to donate online, including the socio‐demographic characteristics of donors. Results show that gender, perception of the organization, and influence from others are variables that influence the likelihood of donating online. Further research and implications for human service nonprofits seeking to undertake online charitable campaigns are discussed. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This research is among the first to analyze social work practitioners' workplace subjective well-being (SWB), the social scientific concept of happiness. From an initial survey of 646 social workers, 13 respondents with the highest SWB scores were interviewed: a cohort that can teach us much about creating and sustaining SWB.Findings: The following reports on one aspect of those qualitative findings: the work related factors that impact overall SWB. Researchers found that the respondents' overall SWB was impacted by characteristics of their work environment (i.e. physical, cultural, and systemic), interrelationships at work (i.e. with clients, colleagues, and supervisors), and specific aspects of the job (i.e. factors associated with both workload and type of work).Applications: The findings are discussed in relation to social work administration, and future research. There are implications for direct social work practitioners, managers, and educators, and in particular with regard to workplace environments that support social worker SWB.

This study examines the growth of the academic study of the formal nonprofit sector by focusing on dissertations and theses written between 1986 through 2010. Using a keyword search, we find and examine 3,790 abstracts available in the ProQuest Dissertation and Theses database. There has been a growing number of theses and dissertations since 1986; the majority (80.2%) were completed at schools in the United States. Thematic analysis found five main themes: (a) Resources (human and financial); (b) Organizational effectiveness and performance; (c) Organization development (context, processes, and culture); (d) Intra-organizational context (leadership, structure, etc.); and (e) Interaction and collaboration (with other organizations, government, etc.). Findings demonstrate an emerging interdisciplinary field in the study of the formal nonprofit sector. Trends across the 25-year time span relating to country of origin, theme, and subject are explored and discussed.

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ABSTRACT. Social work is only just beginning to adapt knowledge and practice to the realities of a geographically diverse world. Within the social services, one of the most exciting diversity-related initiatives is a localization movement that calls for a social work knowledge base that is fundamentally different from one geographic milieu to the next. Few, if any, studies to date have considered the Canadian North (an area populated by diverse aboriginal cultural and linguistic groups) as a basis for localizing social work knowledge. This study reports on interviews conducted with social work practitioners in northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories to gain insight into how changes in the current social work knowledge base could be the locus for meaningful and contextually sensitive social work knowledge and intervention. This initial exploratory study presents a number of key findings that aid in developing an understanding of social work practice and knowledge specific to the Canadian North. These findings identify geographical areas where social work knowledge requires adaptation, changes in the personal and professional behaviour of practitioners, or modification of mainstream knowledge; use of appropriate and inappropriate social work theory and practice; specific challenges faced by agencies; ways agencies can modify programs to meet community needs; ways for clients to access service; and the relationships between practitioners and the surrounding communities. We conclude with implications for the Canadian North related to social work, allied disciplines, and social welfare structures.Key words: social work practice, northern Canada, localization, social work knowledge RÉSUMÉ. Le travail social ne fait que commencer à adapter les connaissances et les pratiques aux réalités d'un monde géographiquement varié. Sur le plan des services sociaux, l'une des initiatives les plus intéressantes en matière de diversité prend la forme d'un mouvement de localisation faisant appel à une base de connaissances en travail social qui est fondamentalement différente d'un milieu géographique à un autre. Peu d'études, voire aucune, n'ont porté sur le Nord canadien (une région peuplée par des groupes autochtones linguistiquement et culturellement variés) en tant que base de localisation des connaissances en travail social. Cette étude fait état d'entrevues réalisées avec des praticiens du travail social dans le nord de l'Ontario et dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest afin d'obtenir un aperçu de la manière dont les changements caractérisant la base de connaissances actuelle en travail social pourrait être le centre d'interventions et de connaissances significatives en travail social, interventions et connaissances tenant compte du contexte. Cette première étude exploratoire présente un certain nombre de constatations importantes qui permettent de mieux comprendre les connaissances et les pratiques en travail social propres au Nord canadien. Ces constatations identifient les régions géographiques où les connaissances en tr...