Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to Experimentally Disentangling Donors’ Perceptions of Government-Supported Nonprofits: Cost-Efficiency, Program Impact, and Shared Services66
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: The Extent of Overhead Ratios’ Manipulation, Distrust, and Ramifications37
Nonprofit Sector Size and the Breadth of Local Government Climate Actions: Exploring the Moderating Role of Collaboration37
How Charitable Were the Elites of the Dutch Golden Age?36
Book Review: Co-operative enterprise in comparative perspective: Exceptionally un-American? by Spicer, J. S. SpicerJ. S. (2024). Co-operative enterprise 36
Contributions of the Paycheck Protection Program to Nonprofit Short-Term Sustainability34
Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated With Voluntary Participation31
Virtually Raising the Paddle: Examining the Role of Online Nonprofit Dialogic Stewardship and Identification in the Post-COVID Era31
Giving to Matthew, Emily, Jose, or Maria: A Field Study Examining the Impact of Race and Gender on Donation Requests30
The Decline of Volunteering in the United States: Is it the Economy?28
Book Review: Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective by Koschmann, M. A., & Sanders, M. L.28
Do Donors Penalize Nonprofits With Higher Non-Program Costs? A Meta-Analysis of Donor Overhead Aversion24
Book Review: Public sector volunteer management: Best practices and challenges by Sillah, A. SillahA. (2023). Public sector volunteer management: Best pr22
Futures Thinking: Building Proactive Resilience in Nonprofit Organizations21
Participatory Grant-Making as a Social Innovation: Examining Relational Processes in Social Finance19
Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach19
Providing Extra Information Increases Blood Donor Return After Deferral While Offering an Alternative Good Deed Does Not: Results From a Field Randomized Controlled Trial18
COVID-19 Pandemic, Physical Distancing Policies, and the Non-Profit Sector Volunteer Force17
Misleading Motives: Incentives for Accounting Bias in Not-for-Profit Pension Plans16
Expectation of Reciprocity and Other-Focused Values Foster Informal Volunteering Intentions in Disasters: Evidence From Finland15
Leading Volunteers Effectively: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Volunteer Leader Behavior Scale15
The Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Civic Engagement Among People of Asian Descent15
How Advocacy Nonprofits Interact With and Impact Business: Introducing a Strategic Confrontation and Collaboration Interaction Model (SCCIM)15
How and Why Do Diaspora Give? A Conceptual Model to Understanding Diaspora Philanthropy14
What Do We Know About Asian Nonprofit Research? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of 60 Years of Progress and Regional Variations14
Inclusive Leadership, Elusive Support? Examining the Impact of Nonprofit Representative and Diverse Leadership on Community Support14
Strategic Action Field Theory: Explaining Variation in the Percentage of Women on Boards in Credit Unions14
Philanthropic Foundations and the Exercise of Power: An Integrative Literature Review of the Many Faces of Power14
Rationalising externally-driven change: Charities and the exploitation of new-practice requirements13
Asymmetric Influence of Moral Actions on Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Moral Balance in Charitable Donations13
Place-Based Stigma and Community Foundation Grant Making13
A History of ARNOVA at Fifty13
Risking Your Health to Help Others: The Effect of Pandemic Severity on Volunteering13
Government Regulation and the Political Activities of Nonprofits13
“I’m Not Doing It for the Company”: Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees’ Eyes12
Volunteers’ Psychological Contracts: Exploring Experiences and Expectations Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic12
Changes in Volunteering Landscape in South Korea During COVID-19: Trajectories of Volume and Engagement Patterns12
No Strings Attached: An Examination of Board-Designated Endowments in Nonprofit Organizations12
Retaining Volunteers Through Political Economic Change: Austerity, Boundary Work, and the Making of an Unpaid Workforce in Newcastle’s Parks11
Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Special Issue11
Intra-Group and Inter-Group Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding: Insights from Stratification Economics11
Governance Arrangements of Cross-Sector Collaboration and Its Effectiveness11
Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations?11
The Effect of State Minimum Wage Increases on Nonprofit Organizations10
Spatial Patterns of Nonprofit Founding: Toward a Local Ecology10
Adapted to Climate Change? Issue Portfolios of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in the Americas10
To Pay or Not to Pay? The Effects of Monetary Compensation on Volunteers in Sports Clubs10
Board Gender Diversity and Nonprofit CEO Compensation: Implications for Gender Pay Gap10
How Does Nonprofit Revenue Diversification Affect Revenue Volatility Before, During, and After External Economic Crisis?9
Decision-Making, Strategy, and the Uses of Organizational History: The Carnegie Corporation and Program-Related Investments9
Nonprofit Revenue Strategy and Downside Risk: Applying Portfolio Theory and Extreme Value Theory9
Fluid Forms of Organizing Volunteering: Producing Civic Action Through Organizational Maintenance9
Donor Perceptions of Nonprofit Organizations’ Transparency: Conceptualization and Operationalization9
Compassion for All: Real-World Online Donations Contradict Compassion Fade8
Perceived Organizational Support and Volunteer Outcomes: Evidence From a German Environmental Nonprofit Organization8
NVSQ : The First Fifty Years, and Beyond8
Examining Personal Values and Regulatory Fit in Poverty Alleviation Appeals: Impact on Appeal Evaluations, Campaign Interest, and Donations8
Meta-analysis of Volunteer Motives Using the Volunteer Functions Inventory to Predict Volunteer Satisfaction, Commitment, and Behavior8
Lower Prices for Customers, and Less Charity Care? The Prospects for Mixed-Market Competition With Nonprofit and Hybrid Firms8
Book Review: Employee engagement in nonprofit organizations: Theory and practice by Akingbola, K., Rogers, E. S., & Intindola, M. AkingbolaK.RogersE.8
Book Review: Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of service , by Mohan, J. MohanJ. (2024). Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of s8
Buried Treasure? Local Foundations’ Knowledge Sharing in Jordan and Palestine8
Corrigendum to “Jesus Speaks Better”: Interactions Between State and Faith-Based Organizations in Service Implementation8
Volunteer Quitting as a Political Statement and Act of Protest8
Book Review: The nature of the nonprofit sector7
Baby Boomers and Their Voluntary Engagement: A Cohort Comparison Among the Middle-Aged and Older Population in Germany7
Part Discount Grocer, Part Social Connection: Defining Elements of Social Supermarkets7
A Guide to the Canadian T3010 for Users of the U.S. Form 9907
Role of Social Capital in International Volunteering: Evidence From Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers7
Exploring the Dynamics: The Relationship Between Unrestricted Resources and Nonprofit Efficiency7
Understanding Contextual Determinants of Likely Online Advocacy by Millennial Donors7
Book Review: The Philippines Road Home: Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation in Housing by Koschmann, M. KoschmannM., (2026). The Philipp7
Spreading the News: Donor Response to Disclosures About Nonprofit Fraud7
By the Volunteer, For the Volunteer: Volunteer Perspectives of Management Across Levels of Satisfaction7
Book Review: Crowded out: The competitive landscape of contemporary international NGOs by Bush, S. S., & Hadden, J BushS. S.HaddenJ. (2025). Crowded out: The competitive landscape of contemporary 7
Who Leads and Who Echoes? Tracing Message Similarity Network of #ClimateChange Advocacy on Twitter7
Attitudinal and Emotional Outcomes and Drivers of Ordinary and Crisis Volunteering7
Nonprofit Policies in an Anti-DEI Legislative Environment6
Erratum to Predicting Community Adoption of Collective Impact in the United States: A National Scan6
Book Review: The intersector: How the public, nonprofit, and private sectors can address America’s challenges , by Gitterman, D. P., & Britto, N. (Ed6
The Combined Effect of Professional and Community Strategic Orientations on the Adoption of High-Commitment HRM in Nonprofit Organizations6
To Be Experienced or to Be Innovative? Signals Influencing Nonprofit Start-Ups’ Philanthropic Funding Acquisition6
Manager Control Over Outcomes? Nature and Nurture Over Time6
Beyond Exit: The Multilevel Dynamics of Partnership Termination6
Book Review: Doctoral student skills: Using your comparative advantage to succeed in grad school and prepare for the job market , by Pallas, C. L.6
NGO–Government Relations in States With Weak Institutions: Avoiding the State While Supplementing Resource Gaps6
Co-producing With Young People in the Third Sector: A Scoping Review and Future Research Agenda6
Experience and Interest in Volunteering: A Survey of Belizean Older Adults6
Financial Challenges of Nonprofits Serving People of Color: Original Survey Results6
Board Capture in the Nonprofit Sector? An Exploration of a Possible Cause and Solution6
Why Cooperation in Volunteer Work Can Fail Despite the Best Intentions: Conflicting Ideas in Narrations From Volunteers6
Multichannel Philanthropists Versus Cash Contributors: Segmenting Charitable Donors in the Digital Age6
Street-Level Pedagogy: Fostering and Communicating Social Equity Through Course Syllabi5
Behind the Crowdsourcing Platform: Assessing Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Instruments5
Improving Location Decisions For Charity Retailers: Applying Operations Research and Customer Discovery5
“Giving Time in My Own Time”: Autonomous Volunteering as an Understudied Phenomenon5
Forewarned: Resilience and the management of nonprofit organizations: A new paradigm5
Immigrant Grassroots Associations in the Netherlands: A Sense-Making Approach to Understanding Exclusion From Endowed Foundation Funding5
Measuring Charitable Giving: How to Capture Charitable Behavior in Philanthropy Research5
Community-Based Initiatives and Public Services Delivery in a Fragile Context: The Case of Yemen5
Resilience in Recovery? Understanding the Extent, Structure, and Operations of Nonprofits Meant to Address Disaster Survivors’ Unmet Needs5
An Empirical Mapping of Environmental Protection and Conservation Nonprofit Discourse on Social Media5
Climate Change and the Voluntary Sector: An Introduction5
Effects of Different Leadership Styles on Workers in Ukrainian Non-Profit Organisations5
Volunteer Value Creation and Distribution: A Systematic Literature Review5
Service-Learning in Higher Education and Prosocial Identity Formation4
How Can Nonprofit Policy Advocacy Influence Policymakers? A Factorial Survey Experiment on the Effects of Nonprofit Advocacy Strategies on Policymakers’ Willingness to Act4
The Nonprofit Role in Building Community Social Capital: A Moderated Mediation Model of Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Shared Mission for Social Capital Creation4
Did 9/11 Affect Donations to Islamic Charities in the United States?4
Where User Perceptions of Charities and Independent Nonprofit Ratings Meet: Inside the Black Box of Nonprofit Performance4
Nonprofit Organizational Identification, Moral License, and Whiteness: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonprofit Work on the White Morality Myth4
The Nonprofit, That’s Us: Linking Organizational Identity and Identification in Social Mission-Based Organizations4
Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities for Social Innovations in Small Non-Profit Organizations4
Nonprofit Organizations and the Evaluation of Social Impact: A Research Program to Advance Theory and Practice4
Many Things to Many People: The Diversity of Motivations for Joining Diasporic Organizations in the Global South4
Uncovering Local Knowledge in Grassroots Associations: An Illustration of the Critical Reflexive Approach4
Book Review: People powered radio: Fifty years of Australian community radio station 4ZZZ by Anderson, H and Community radio in So4
Talking the Talk, or Walking the Walk? How Managerial Practices Relate to Nonprofit Organizations’ Role as Schools of Democracy4
Navigating Age Diversity in Volunteer Teams: Barriers and Enablers of Teamwork4
The Role of Community Participation in Cross-Sector Social Partnerships4
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Nonprofit Organizations: A Paired Review ChappellN.RosenkransS. (2025). Nonprofit AI: A comprehensive guide to implementing artificial intelligence for social4
Interpersonal Fundraising Methods Are Associated With Lower Donation Value Over Time3
The Influence of Verbal and Visual Formality Cues on the Persuasiveness of Charitable Appeals3
“Jesus Speaks Better”: Interactions Between State and Faith-Based Organizations in Service Implementation3
Exploring Collaborative Governance Processes Involving Nonprofits3
Book Review: Non-profit governance: Twelve frameworks for organisations and research , by Brown, W. BrownW. (2025). Non-profit governance: Twelve framewo3
Understanding Location and Density: A Spatial Analysis of Cuyahoga County Ohio’s Nonprofit Sector3
Immigrants’ Experiences of Volunteering; A Meta-Ethnography3
Editor’s Note: August, 20223
Do Volunteers Intend to Become Social Entrepreneurs? The Influence of Pro-Social Behavior on Social Entrepreneurial Intentions3
Touching Art and Technological Innovation Management Models for a More Inclusive Society: Theory and Practice3
Book Review: Everyday democracy: Civil society, youth, and the struggle against authoritarian culture in China by Spires, A. J. SpiresA. J., (2024). Ever3
Book Review: Against NGOs: A critical perspective on civil society, management and development by Srinivas, N.3
Predictors of Nonprofit Ethno-Racial Diversity: Examining Local Community Demographics and Political Ideology3
Organizational Culture and Effectiveness in Community-Based Nonprofits3
The Promise and Perils of Comparing Nonprofit Data Across Borders3
An Invisible Impediment to Progress: Perceptions of Racialization in the Nonprofit Sector3
Charity and Abuse: Fundraising and Symbolic Power in the Case of Jimmy Savile2
Stratification in Formal Volunteering: Occupational Spill-Over Effects on the Hierarchical Positions of Volunteers in Voluntary Organizations2
Bricolage Strategies, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Geographic Expansion of Social Enterprises2
The Role of Spiritual Practices in the Multidimensional Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Giving and Volunteering2
From Human Services to “Justice Enterprises”: Reframing the Market-Mission Tension in U.S. Organizations Serving Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation2
Information Costs and the Impact of Charitable Giving2
Volunteer Engageability: A Conceptual Framework2
Supporting Volunteer Well-Being Through Disaster: Perspectives and Practices of a Youth-Led Informal Crisis Volunteer Group2
Community Leadership and Donor-Advised Funds: Navigating Logics of Donor Services and Community Leadership in Community Foundations2
Book Reviews: Amateurs without borders: The aspirations and limits of global compassion by Schnable, A.2
Book Review: The Canadian non-profit sector: Neoliberalism and the assault on community , by Richmond, T., & Shields, J. RichmondT.ShieldsJ. (2024). 2
What Matters for Charitable Donations Under Authoritarianism? An Examination of Organizational Legitimacy and Political Connections2
Business-Like and Still Serving Society? Investigating the Relationship Between NPOs Being Business-Like and Their Societal Roles2
Exploring Nonprofit Advocacy Research Methods and Design: A Systematic Review of the Literature2
Serving Three Masters: Thematic Analyses Reveal Inherent Ethical Tensions in Fundraising2
Research Note: Form 990 Data Quality and Reliability2
Editors’ Note: Honoring the Legacy of David Horton Smith2
Beyond the Partnership Paradigm: Toward an Extended Typology of Government/Nonprofit Relationship Patterns2
CORRIGENDUM to “The Changing Nature of Foundation Work: Advancing the Field by Understanding the Foundation Professional Experience”2
Book Review: How consultants shape nonprofits: Shared values, unintended consequences by Reisman, L. M. G ReismanL. M. G. (2024). How consultants shape n2
Philanthropy for Systems Change: An Exploratory Study2
Activity and Identity: Uncovering Multiple Institutional Logics in the Nonprofit Sector2
Regulating Political Advocacy by Charities Liberally2
Capacity Building in the Arab Nonprofit Sector: A Scoping Review and Preliminary Bibliometric Insights2
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