Elements of Capacity in Youth Development Nonprofits: An Exploratory Study of Urban Sport for Development and Peace Organizations

Constraints and Strategies to Scaling Up in Sport for Development and Peace Organizations: Evidence From the Field

“…The semistructured interview guide was designed based on the theory of scaling up (Uvin, 1995; Uvin & Miller, 1996) and the nonprofit and SDP constraints literature (Bish & Becker, 2016; Nagabhushanam & Sridhar, 2010; Svensson et al, 2017). Sample questions aiming to draw out both constraints and strategies included: “What type of overall issues has your organization faced since your involvement?” “What barriers has your organization encountered to scaling up and enhancing your impact?” and “What strategies have you employed to overcome and address these issues?”…”

“…To successfully navigate challenges related to partnerships, SDP organizations have been encouraged to build relationships with potential partners over the long term, involve the partner in program design, and develop consistent operating norms and procedures (Collison, Darnell, Giulianotti, & Howe, 2016; Svensson & Hambrick, 2016; Welty Peachey, Cohen, Shin, & Fusaro, 2018). Additional research has stressed the importance of capacity building strategies to establish partnerships and optimize success (Rosso & McGrath, 2017; Svensson, Andersson, & Faulk, 2018; Svensson, Hancock, & Hums, 2017). SDP scholarship has also been pointing toward social entrepreneurship as an important skill set to help navigate diverse constraints, including forming and developing partnerships (Bjärsholm, 2017; Cohen & Welty Peachey, 2015; Hayhurst, 2014).…”

Capacities of African-oriented Polish NGOs: a quantitative approach

“…When it comes to resources, the number of people declaring their affiliation to the NGOs on LinkedIn does not adequately encompass the issue of volunteers. Their role in the NGOs' capacity building has been a topic of other studies (Devereux, 2008;Svensson, Hancock & Hums, 2017). Although estimating the contribution of unpaid workers to an NGO is not the topic of this study, it is worth highlighting that numerous organisations in this sector are likely to rely on them for development projects, as is the case in the whole third sector in Poland (Charycka & Gumkowska, 2019).…”

What Does Innovation Mean to Nonprofit Practitioners? International Insights From Development and Peace-Building Nonprofits

“…Prior studies indicate that leaders of SDP organizations are often motivated by their own personal experiences as volunteers or employees in humanitarian work (Welty Peachey, Musser, Shin, & Cohen, 2018) and their nonprofits draw on a combination of workers delivering programs and services. These include local community staff, transmigrant workers, and former program participants re-engaged as coaches and leaders (Hoekman, Schulenkorf, & Welty Peachey, 2018; Svensson, Hancock, & Hums, 2017; Thorpe & Chawansky, 2017). SDP funding is also associated with intricate power relations and dependencies between Northern and Southern organizations (Harris & Adams, 2016).…”

“…Recent empirical evidence suggests that SDP organizations share several general characteristics with other community-based entities: They report low levels of organizational capacity (Suárez & Marshall, 2014; Svensson, Andersson, & Faulk, 2018) and are seldom supported through local government funding (Suárez & Gugerty, 2016; Svensson et al, 2017). Yet, while SDP organizations share similarities with development and peace-building nonprofits, they are quite distinct from other nonprofit sport organizations in their countries (see Svensson et al, 2017).…”