View the Resource By Katherine R. Cooper, Michelle Shumate Although nonprofit organizations are expected to engage in continuous evaluation, its effectiveness is hampered by limited resources and competing and untested instruments. This paper makes the case for the creation and use of more robust measures in nonprofit evaluation. Specifically, we argue for the involvement of nonprofits in the development of reliable and valid instruments that can be used to benchmark

View the Resource By Katherine R. Cooper, Michelle Shumate There’s been a lot of interest recently in collective impact, for good reason; it’s an exciting approach, and it’s demonstrating a growing track record of positive results. But while collective impact partners are increasingly interested in sharing data to identify best practices, learn from mistakes, and implement changes to improve outcomes, they often don’t know how to use shared data programs

View the Resource By Jennifer Ihm, Macarena Pena-Y-Lillo, Katherine R Cooper, Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate, Julia Bello-Bravo, Niango Malick Ba, CléMentine L Dabire-Binso, Barry Robert Pittendrigh Development campaigns designed to scale up effective agricultural solutions often rely on media. Information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) proponents argue that increased media penetration is necessary for such campaigns to succeed. Interviews of 63 extension agents and 200 farmers in Burkina Faso

View the Resource By Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate This study examines a hyperlink network among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China. Using social media activity, indicated by the presence of a profile, length of time since social media adoption, number of accounts followed, and number of posts, we investigate NGOs’ hyper linking behaviors from a holistic media ecology perspective. Drawing from homophily and resource dependence theory, this research aims to understand NGOs’

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Yannick Atouba, Katherine R. Cooper, Andrew Pilny This research examines the antecedents that motivate and prepare social entrepreneurs to begin social ventures. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 20 social entrepreneurs, this research reveals that there are two paths to social entrepreneurship: the activist path and the business path. Both activist and business social entrepreneurs were motivated by a family legacy or a transformative early

View the Resource By Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate The importance and popularity of interorganizational collaboration among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have grown considerably in recent years. Despite these growths, however, not much is known about why NGOs network the way they do or why NGO networks are structured the way they are. Using homophily theory and exponential random graph modeling, this study examines the patterns of interorganizational collaborative ties among infectious