Measuring the Performance of Voluntary Organizations

Kendall, Jeremy; Knapp, Martín

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“…Various scholars highlight the need for non-profits to improve internal processes that deliver value to their beneficiaries, reduce operating expenses or improve organizational capacity in terms of management and program capacity [65]. (c) focused on NPO output, centred around the activities of the non-profit, as they relate and contribute to the fulfilment of its mission [31,[62][63][64]66,67]. Output measurement addresses whether non-profit activities achieved the specific targets initially intended [60].…”

Section: Sustainability Approaches In Non-profit Organizationsmentioning

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Sustainability Perceptions in Romanian Non-Profit Organizations: An Exploratory Study Using Success Factor Analysis

Ceptureanu

Bogdan

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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This paper analyses sustainability perceptions in Romanian non-profits by investigating 81 non-profits managers and board members. Using a multidimensional sustainability measurement framework, Success Factor Analysis, as a conceptual model, we measured perceptions on 5 critical sustainability factors: People, Business Model, Operations, Strategy and Culture and concluded that there are significant differences in the perceptions of sustainability depending on respondents' previous failure experiences. While those which previously experienced failure adopt a long-term approach based on marketization, clear accountability standards and rely on strategy, while the others prefer a short-term approach, focused more on non-profits operations and focus on human resources.

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Section: Sustainability Approaches In Non-profit Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Perceptions in Romanian Non-Profit Organizations: An Exploratory Study Using Success Factor Analysis

Ceptureanu

Bogdan

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Empirical international research on the theoretical construct in the field of non-profit, voluntary, and philanthropic organizations dates to the beginnings of academia's interest in the third sector (Gordon & Babchuk, 1959). Researchers have constructed different typologies aimed to represent the functional multiplicity of non-profits (Kendall & Knapp, 2000;Salamon, Hems, & Chinnock, 2000). Most comprehensively, Moulton and Eckerd (2012, p. 658) conducted a literature review that differentiates an "inventory of six unique roles".…”

Section: Role Allocation Of Philanthropic Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Roles of local foundations in German community-based initiatives: Devolving criticism of philanthropy to the local?

Koranyi

Kolleck

2018

EPAA

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This article explores perceptions of local philanthropic foundations situated in community-based initiative (CBI) policies that aim to achieve educational goals through the establishment of collaborative connections between schools and multiple local actors. Although roles of philanthropy in public education are controversial, scholars have yet to rigorously consider the specific local context of CBIs. We aim to help fill this research gap by investigating the main collective orientations that underlie actions of local foundations in German CBIs. Based on semi-structured interviews with chairpersons in a south German municipality, we examine patterns of experience and attitude through application of the documentary method. The reconstructed collective orientations allow for the identification of four primary roles of philanthropy in CBIs. Notably, the addition of an advocacy role relocates a phenomenon that was previously identified as a disruptive element at a (supra -)national level. These roles suggest potential for philanthropy to engage in local education Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 26 No. 139 2 policy-making. As such, they pose pressing questions that need to be addressed by public authorities and regulators. Las fundaciones locales en iniciativas comunitarias basadas en Alemania: ¿Devolviendo críticas a la filantropía para el lugar?Resumen: Este artículo explora las percepciones de fundaciones filantrópicas locales situadas en políticas de iniciativa comunitaria (CBI) que buscan alcanzar objetivos educativos a través del establecimiento de conexiones colaborativas entre escuelas y múltiples actores locales. Aunque los papeles de filantropía en la educación pública son controvertidos, los estudiosos todavía necesitan considerar rigurosamente el contexto local específico de los CBI. Nuestro objetivo es ayudar a llenar esa brecha de investigación, investigando las principales orientaciones colectivas que fundamentan las acciones de las fundaciones locales en los CBIs alemanes. Con base en entrevistas semiestructuradas con presidentes de un municipio del sur de Alemania, examinamos patrones de experiencia y actitud a través de la aplicación del método documental. Las orientaciones colectivas reconstruidas permiten la identificación de cuatro papeles principales de la filantropía en los CBI. Por supuesto, el aumento de un papel de abogacía se refiere a un fenómeno que fue anteriormente identificado como un elemento disruptivo en un nivel (supra) nacional. Estas funciones sugieren potencial para que la filantropía se involucra en la formulación de políticas educativas locales. Como tal, plantean cuestiones urgentes que necesitan ser abordadas por las autoridades públicas y reguladores. Palabras-clave: fundaciones filantrópicas; funciones institucionales; educación comunitaria; desarrollo comunitario; política administrativa Das fundações locais em iniciativas comunitárias baseadas na Alemanha: Devolvendo críticas à filantropia para o local?Resumo: Este artigo explora as percepções de fundações filant...

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“… Availability of resources, understood as the ability of an organization to acquire necessary financial and non-financial resources, using them efficiently to pursue resilience, growth and long term sustainability (Kendall & Knapp, 2000). In this regard, according to Mao et al (2016), the appropriate resource management is the real key to the success of any organization, public and private.…”

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Performance Evaluation and Measurement in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

Polese¹,

Troisi²,

Torre³

et al. 2016

IJBA

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The turbulence of the current competitive environment emphasizes the importance of the role played by performance measurement systems in generating an improvement of business results. Starting from this consideration, the work pursues a twofold goal: firstly, it tries to verify the existence and the degree of a research interest about this topic; secondly, it seeks to identify, in measurement and evaluation systems, which factors are capable of producing an effect on performances of public organizations. In order to well respond to the research purposes, the work begins with a systematic literature review, which highlights a growing attention of scholars on all those variables considered critical in conducting and managing public organizations. The study, highlighting the existence of six variables to be advantageously taken into account in managing public organizations, especially in light of the potential influence that they seem to exert on different types of business performances, could be considered as a useful tool for both practitioners (managers of public organizations) and scholars (professors, researchers, students, etc.) aimed at helping to become aware about the advantages arising from an adequate management of performances measures. The main research limitation is the lack of an empirical analysis of public companies performance plans, which should be thoroughly examined to allow a possible further generalization of the theoretical findings achieved.

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Measuring the Performance of Voluntary Organizations

Cited by 82 publications

References 14 publications

Sustainability Perceptions in Romanian Non-Profit Organizations: An Exploratory Study Using Success Factor Analysis

Sustainability Perceptions in Romanian Non-Profit Organizations: An Exploratory Study Using Success Factor Analysis

Roles of local foundations in German community-based initiatives: Devolving criticism of philanthropy to the local?

Performance Evaluation and Measurement in Public Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review

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