Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to Experimentally Disentangling Donors’ Perceptions of Government-Supported Nonprofits: Cost-Efficiency, Program Impact, and Shared Services68
Book Review: Co-operative enterprise in comparative perspective: Exceptionally un-American? by Spicer, J. S. SpicerJ. S. (2024). Co-operative enterprise 43
How Charitable Were the Elites of the Dutch Golden Age?42
Contributions of the Paycheck Protection Program to Nonprofit Short-Term Sustainability37
Nonprofit Sector Size and the Breadth of Local Government Climate Actions: Exploring the Moderating Role of Collaboration35
The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: The Extent of Overhead Ratios’ Manipulation, Distrust, and Ramifications34
Virtually Raising the Paddle: Examining the Role of Online Nonprofit Dialogic Stewardship and Identification in the Post-COVID Era27
Book Review: Public sector volunteer management: Best practices and challenges by Sillah, A. SillahA. (2023). Public sector volunteer management: Best pr24
Book Review: Understanding Nonprofit Work: A Communication Perspective by Koschmann, M. A., & Sanders, M. L.24
Individual- and Community-Level Factors Associated With Voluntary Participation22
Participatory Grant-Making as a Social Innovation: Examining Relational Processes in Social Finance21
Do Donors Penalize Nonprofits With Higher Non-Program Costs? A Meta-Analysis of Donor Overhead Aversion20
Individual Giving to Local Civil Society Organisations in Ghana: An Exploratory Analysis20
The Decline of Volunteering in the United States: Is it the Economy?18
Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach16
Futures Thinking: Building Proactive Resilience in Nonprofit Organizations16
Book Review: A Relational Approach to NGOs in Global Politics: Beyond Cooperation and Competition by Deloffre, M. Z., & Quack, S. (Eds.) DeloffreM. Z16
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 Philanthropy15
What Do We Know About Asian Nonprofit Research? A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis of 60 Years of Progress and Regional Variations15
Giving to Matthew, Emily, Jose, or Maria: A Field Study Examining the Impact of Race and Gender on Donation Requests15
Expectation of Reciprocity and Other-Focused Values Foster Informal Volunteering Intentions in Disasters: Evidence From Finland14
Philanthropic Foundations and the Exercise of Power: An Integrative Literature Review of the Many Faces of Power14
Leading Volunteers Effectively: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Volunteer Leader Behavior Scale14
Misleading Motives: Incentives for Accounting Bias in Not-for-Profit Pension Plans14
The Relation Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Civic Engagement Among People of Asian Descent13
Strategic Action Field Theory: Explaining Variation in the Percentage of Women on Boards in Credit Unions13
COVID-19 Pandemic, Physical Distancing Policies, and the Non-Profit Sector Volunteer Force13
Asymmetric Influence of Moral Actions on Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Moral Balance in Charitable Donations13
Inclusive Leadership, Elusive Support? Examining the Impact of Nonprofit Representative and Diverse Leadership on Community Support13
Risking Your Health to Help Others: The Effect of Pandemic Severity on Volunteering12
Government Regulation and the Political Activities of Nonprofits12
No Strings Attached: An Examination of Board-Designated Endowments in Nonprofit Organizations12
Changes in Volunteering Landscape in South Korea During COVID-19: Trajectories of Volume and Engagement Patterns11
Rationalising externally-driven change: Charities and the exploitation of new-practice requirements11
A History of ARNOVA at Fifty10
Intra-Group and Inter-Group Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding: Insights from Stratification Economics10
Retaining Volunteers Through Political Economic Change: Austerity, Boundary Work, and the Making of an Unpaid Workforce in Newcastle’s Parks10
Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations?10
Introduction to the 50th Anniversary Special Issue10
Place-Based Stigma and Community Foundation Grant Making10
“I’m Not Doing It for the Company”: Examining Employee Volunteering Through Employees’ Eyes10
Navigating Dual-Structured Crisis: Factors Influencing Nonprofit Organizational Resilience10
Volunteers’ Psychological Contracts: Exploring Experiences and Expectations Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic10
Parents as Donors: Results From a National Survey on Giving to K–12 Education in the United States10
Board Gender Diversity and Nonprofit CEO Compensation: Implications for Gender Pay Gap10
Adapted to Climate Change? Issue Portfolios of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in the Americas10
Donor Perceptions of Nonprofit Organizations’ Transparency: Conceptualization and Operationalization9
Nonprofit Revenue Strategy and Downside Risk: Applying Portfolio Theory and Extreme Value Theory9
The Effect of State Minimum Wage Increases on Nonprofit Organizations9
Compassion for All: Real-World Online Donations Contradict Compassion Fade9
Fluid Forms of Organizing Volunteering: Producing Civic Action Through Organizational Maintenance9
The Ethics of Islamic Philanthropy9
Decision-Making, Strategy, and the Uses of Organizational History: The Carnegie Corporation and Program-Related Investments9
Spatial Patterns of Nonprofit Founding: Toward a Local Ecology9
To Pay or Not to Pay? The Effects of Monetary Compensation on Volunteers in Sports Clubs8
Volunteer Quitting as a Political Statement and Act of Protest8
How Does Nonprofit Revenue Diversification Affect Revenue Volatility Before, During, and After External Economic Crisis?8
Meta-analysis of Volunteer Motives Using the Volunteer Functions Inventory to Predict Volunteer Satisfaction, Commitment, and Behavior8
Dimensions of Religiosity, Religious Residue, and the Philanthropy of the Formerly Religious8
Book Review: Employee engagement in nonprofit organizations: Theory and practice by Akingbola, K., Rogers, E. S., & Intindola, M. AkingbolaK.RogersE.8
Book Review: The Philippines Road Home: Developing a Communicative Approach to Participation in Housing by Koschmann, M. KoschmannM., (2026). The Philipp7
Corrigendum to “Jesus Speaks Better”: Interactions Between State and Faith-Based Organizations in Service Implementation7
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
Spreading the News: Donor Response to Disclosures About Nonprofit Fraud7
Book Review: Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of service by Mohan, J. MohanJ. (2024). Volunteering in the United Kingdom: The spirit of ser7
Examining Personal Values and Regulatory Fit in Poverty Alleviation Appeals: Impact on Appeal Evaluations, Campaign Interest, and Donations7
NVSQ : The First Fifty Years, and Beyond7
Baby Boomers and Their Voluntary Engagement: A Cohort Comparison Among the Middle-Aged and Older Population in Germany7
Who Leads and Who Echoes? Tracing Message Similarity Network of #ClimateChange Advocacy on Twitter7
Lower Prices for Customers, and Less Charity Care? The Prospects for Mixed-Market Competition With Nonprofit and Hybrid Firms7
Understanding Contextual Determinants of Likely Online Advocacy by Millennial Donors7
By the Volunteer, For the Volunteer: Volunteer Perspectives of Management Across Levels of Satisfaction7
Book Review: The nature of the nonprofit sector6
Part Discount Grocer, Part Social Connection: Defining Elements of Social Supermarkets6
Role of Social Capital in International Volunteering: Evidence From Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers6
Book Review: The intersector: How the public, nonprofit, and private sectors can address America’s challenges , by Gitterman, D. P., & Britto, N. (Ed6
Nonprofit Policies in an Anti-DEI Legislative Environment6
Exploring the Dynamics: The Relationship Between Unrestricted Resources and Nonprofit Efficiency6
Experience and Interest in Volunteering: A Survey of Belizean Older Adults6
Manager Control Over Outcomes? Nature and Nurture Over Time6
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
A Guide to the Canadian T3010 for Users of the U.S. Form 9906
Beyond Exit: The Multilevel Dynamics of Partnership Termination6
Attitudinal and Emotional Outcomes and Drivers of Ordinary and Crisis Volunteering6
Board Capture in the Nonprofit Sector? An Exploration of a Possible Cause and Solution6
Volunteer Value Creation and Distribution: A Systematic Literature Review5
To Be Experienced or to Be Innovative? Signals Influencing Nonprofit Start-Ups’ Philanthropic Funding Acquisition5
Financial Challenges of Nonprofits Serving People of Color: Original Survey Results5
Immigrant Grassroots Associations in the Netherlands: A Sense-Making Approach to Understanding Exclusion From Endowed Foundation Funding5
Community-Based Initiatives and Public Services Delivery in a Fragile Context: The Case of Yemen5
Why Cooperation in Volunteer Work Can Fail Despite the Best Intentions: Conflicting Ideas in Narrations From Volunteers5
Multichannel Philanthropists Versus Cash Contributors: Segmenting Charitable Donors in the Digital Age5
“Giving Time in My Own Time”: Autonomous Volunteering as an Understudied Phenomenon5
Street-Level Pedagogy: Fostering and Communicating Social Equity Through Course Syllabi5
Behind the Crowdsourcing Platform: Assessing Volunteer Recruitment and Engagement Instruments5
The Combined Effect of Professional and Community Strategic Orientations on the Adoption of High-Commitment HRM in Nonprofit Organizations5
Co-producing With Young People in the Third Sector: A Scoping Review and Future Research Agenda5
NGO–Government Relations in States With Weak Institutions: Avoiding the State While Supplementing Resource Gaps5
The Relationship of Scaling and Democracy in Third-Sector Organizations5
An Empirical Mapping of Environmental Protection and Conservation Nonprofit Discourse on Social Media5
Corrigendum to “Determinants of AI Adoption in Nonprofit Organizations”4
The Nonprofit, That’s Us: Linking Organizational Identity and Identification in Social Mission-Based Organizations4
Effects of Different Leadership Styles on Workers in Ukrainian Non-Profit Organisations4
The Nonprofit Role in Building Community Social Capital: A Moderated Mediation Model of Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Shared Mission for Social Capital Creation4
What Counts as Volunteering? Evolving Definitions and Measures of Volunteering in Australia (1970s–2025)4
Many Things to Many People: The Diversity of Motivations for Joining Diasporic Organizations in the Global South4
Resilience in Recovery? Understanding the Extent, Structure, and Operations of Nonprofits Meant to Address Disaster Survivors’ Unmet Needs4
Book Review: People powered radio: Fifty years of Australian community radio station 4ZZZ by Anderson, H and Community radio in So4
How Can Nonprofit Policy Advocacy Influence Policymakers? A Factorial Survey Experiment on the Effects of Nonprofit Advocacy Strategies on Policymakers’ Willingness to Act4
Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities for Social Innovations in Small Non-Profit Organizations4
Talking the Talk, or Walking the Walk? How Managerial Practices Relate to Nonprofit Organizations’ Role as Schools of Democracy4
Uncovering Local Knowledge in Grassroots Associations: An Illustration of the Critical Reflexive Approach4
Forewarned: Resilience and the management of nonprofit organizations: A new paradigm4
Measuring Charitable Giving: How to Capture Charitable Behavior in Philanthropy Research4
Improving Location Decisions For Charity Retailers: Applying Operations Research and Customer Discovery4
Climate Change and the Voluntary Sector: An Introduction4
The Heart Versus the Head: How Nonprofit Use of Emotion and Cognition Attracts Donors and Volunteers4
Did 9/11 Affect Donations to Islamic Charities in the United States?4
Navigating Age Diversity in Volunteer Teams: Barriers and Enablers of Teamwork4
The Role of Community Participation in Cross-Sector Social Partnerships3
Nonprofit Organizational Identification, Moral License, and Whiteness: An Experimental Study of the Effect of Nonprofit Work on the White Morality Myth3
Touching Art and Technological Innovation Management Models for a More Inclusive Society: Theory and Practice3
The Promise and Perils of Comparing Nonprofit Data Across Borders3
Where User Perceptions of Charities and Independent Nonprofit Ratings Meet: Inside the Black Box of Nonprofit Performance3
Book Review: Everyday democracy: Civil society, youth, and the struggle against authoritarian culture in China by Spires, A. J. SpiresA. J., (2024). Ever3
Understanding Location and Density: A Spatial Analysis of Cuyahoga County Ohio’s Nonprofit Sector3
The Influence of Verbal and Visual Formality Cues on the Persuasiveness of Charitable Appeals3
Interpersonal Fundraising Methods Are Associated With Lower Donation Value Over Time3
An Invisible Impediment to Progress: Perceptions of Racialization in the Nonprofit Sector3
Nonprofit Organizations and the Evaluation of Social Impact: A Research Program to Advance Theory and Practice3
Book Review: Non-profit governance: Twelve frameworks for organisations and research by Brown, W. BrownW. (2025). Non-profit governance: Twelve framework3
Book Review: Against NGOs: A critical perspective on civil society, management and development by Srinivas, N.3
The Impact of COVID-19 on Nonprofit Organizations: A Systematic Review and Future Crisis Research Agenda3
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Nonprofit Organizations: A Paired Review ChappellN.RosenkransS. (2025). Nonprofit AI: A comprehensive guide to implementing artificial intelligence for social3
Book Review: The Canadian non-profit sector: Neoliberalism and the assault on community , by Richmond, T., & Shields, J. RichmondT.ShieldsJ. (2024). 2
Organizational Culture and Effectiveness in Community-Based Nonprofits2
CORRIGENDUM to “The Changing Nature of Foundation Work: Advancing the Field by Understanding the Foundation Professional Experience”2
Philanthropy for Systems Change: An Exploratory Study2
Capacity Building in the Arab Nonprofit Sector: A Scoping Review and Preliminary Bibliometric Insights2
The Role of Spiritual Practices in the Multidimensional Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Giving and Volunteering2
Book Reviews: Amateurs without borders: The aspirations and limits of global compassion by Schnable, A.2
Bricolage Strategies, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Geographic Expansion of Social Enterprises2
Stratification in Formal Volunteering: Occupational Spill-Over Effects on the Hierarchical Positions of Volunteers in Voluntary Organizations2
“Jesus Speaks Better”: Interactions Between State and Faith-Based Organizations in Service Implementation2
Immigrants’ Experiences of Volunteering; A Meta-Ethnography2
Editors’ Note: Honoring the Legacy of David Horton Smith2
Research Note: Form 990 Data Quality and Reliability2
Volunteer Engageability: A Conceptual Framework2
Book Review: How consultants shape nonprofits: Shared values, unintended consequences by Reisman, L. M. G ReismanL. M. G. (2024). How consultants shape n2
Exploring Collaborative Governance Processes Involving Nonprofits2
Predictors of Nonprofit Ethno-Racial Diversity: Examining Local Community Demographics and Political Ideology2
Community Leadership and Donor-Advised Funds: Navigating Logics of Donor Services and Community Leadership in Community Foundations2
Information Costs and the Impact of Charitable Giving2
Charity and Abuse: Fundraising and Symbolic Power in the Case of Jimmy Savile2
Serving Three Masters: Thematic Analyses Reveal Inherent Ethical Tensions in Fundraising2
The Value of Being Nonprofit: A New Look at Hansmann’s Contract Failure Theory1
When a Crisis Has a Silver Lining: Social Media P2P Fundraising at the Start of COVID-191
The Influence of Parenting Styles on Early Adolescence Volunteering1
Exploring the Evolutionary Boundaries of Community Business1
Activity and Identity: Uncovering Multiple Institutional Logics in the Nonprofit Sector1
Directing Audience Responses: How Nonprofit Donation Appeals Shape User Comments on Social Media1
Book Review: Preparing leaders of nonprofit organizations: Contemporary perspectives by Brown, W. A., & Hale, M. (Eds.) BrownW. A.HaleM. (Eds.). (2021
From Service to Sector: Early-Adulthood Volunteering as a Pathway into Nonprofit and Public Employment1
Book Review: Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship FleischE. (2024). Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship. New Brunswic1
The Emergence and Evolution of Digital Social Ventures in Dublin, Ireland1
Call Me Maybe?An Experimental Analysis of Donor Backlash to Voluntary Nonprofit Fraud Disclosure1
Book Review: For-profit philanthropy: Elite power & the threat of limited liability companies, donor-advised funds, & strategic corporate giving1
Innovating for Financial Sustainability in Nonprofit Symphony Orchestras: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective1
Under Pressure: Social Information on Reference Groups and its Influence on Volunteering Intention—A Survey Experiment1
Does Revenue Concentration Really Bring Organizational Efficiency? Evidence From Habitat for Humanity1
The (R)evolution of the Social Entrepreneurship Concept: A Critical Historical Review1
Volunteering in the Middle of Crisis and Politicization: The Role of Religiosity, Political Ideology, and Personal Experiences in Volunteerism Among Muslims and Christians During COVID-191
From Human Services to “Justice Enterprises”: Reframing the Market-Mission Tension in U.S. Organizations Serving Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation1
Book Review: The power of morality in movements: Civic engagement in climate justice, human rights, and democracy by Sevelsted, A., & Toubøl, J. (Eds1
Who Determines Where the Sun Shines: Nonprofit Sector Stakeholders and the IRS Form 990 Redesign1
Volunteer Retirement and Well-Being in Older Adults: A Longitudinal Study1
Charity Starts at Home: Understanding What Drives Children from Economically Disadvantaged Communities to Engage in Social Action1
Constructive and Destructive Voice Behaviors in Cooperatives: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Drives1
The Diversity Layer: The Role of Coalitions Among Civil Society Organizations1
Designing Effective Volunteering Appeals: Results of Choice-Based Conjoint and Latent Class Segmentation Analyses1
Chasing White Whales: Philanthropic Inequality at an Ohio Public Media Organization1
Disciplinary Contributions to Nonprofit Studies: A 20-Year Empirical Mapping of Journals Publishing Nonprofit Research and Journal Citations by Nonprofit Scholars1
Promoting Charitable Donations and Volunteering Through Nudge Tools From the Perspective of Behavioral Economics: A Systematic Review1
Regulating Political Advocacy by Charities Liberally1
Exploring Nonprofit Advocacy Research Methods and Design: A Systematic Review of the Literature1
Examining the Association Between State Lobbying Regulations and Nonprofit Lobbying Expenditures1
Determinants of AI Adoption in Nonprofit Organizations1
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