NNSI Resource Directory

The NNSI Resource Directory is a comprehensive database where you can easily access all types of works produced by NNSI faculty, students, researchers, and alumni. These resources include but are not limited to peer reviewed articles, blog posts, policy briefs, webinar recordings, and podcast episodes. To narrow down your search for a certain item, please use the Filter by Category or Filter by Resource Type functions. You can also directly look up the title or keywords of a resource through our Search function. If you have questions about how to use the library or suggestions about additional resources, view this help document or contact us at nnsi@northwestern.edu.

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Better Know a Network: Higher Expectations for Racine County

  • NNSI Editorial Team

Better Know a Network: Learn to Earn Dayton

  • NNSI Editorial Team

What Makes a Good Network Leader?

  • NNSI Editorial Team

Better Know a Network: Agewell Pittsburgh

  • NNSI Editorial Team

Organizational and Individual Innovation Decisions in an Interorganizational System: Social Influence and Decision-Making Authority

  • Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate, Noshir Contractor

Nonprofit Capacity: A Guide for Foundations

  • NNSI Editorial Team

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Communication Assuage Activists More Than Other People?

  • NNSI Editorial Team

Networks and Systems Change: The Washing Machine Model

  • Anne-Marie Boyer

Does the CSR Message Matter? Untangling the Relationship Between Corporate–Nonprofit Partnerships, Created Fit Messages, and Activist Evaluations

  • Reyhaneh Maktoufi, Amy O’Connor, Michelle Shumate

Developing and Validating a Capacity Instrument for Chinese and U.S. NGOs

  • Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate

The Role of Convenors in Cross-Sector Collaborative Governance

  • Katherine R. Cooper, Rong Wang, Anne-Marie Boyer, Jack L. Harris, Joshua-Paul Miles, Michelle Shumate

Exploring Stakeholders’ Assessments of Organizational Identity and Identification in the Context of CSR Partnerships

  • Amy O’Connor, Michelle Shumate, Rong Wang

Meeting the Challenge of Effectiveness in Nonprofit Partnerships: Examining the Roles of Partner Selection, Trust, and Communication

  • Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate

The Toxic Node

  • Michelle Shumate, Amy O’Connor, Rong Wang

How Does NGO Partnering Change Over Time? A Longitudinal Examination of Factors That Influence NGO Partner Selection

  • Nina F. O’Brien, Andrew Pilny, Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate, Janet L. Fulk, Peter R. Monge

How Do Funders Influence the Outcomes of Nonprofit Collaboration?

  • Michelle Shumate

Philanthropy & Social Impact: Working Together: Organizations, Partnerships and Networks

  • Elizabeth Graddy, Christine M. Beckman, Tina Dacin, Michelle Shumate

What’s the (Data-Use) Impact of Collective Impact on Nonprofits?

  • Anne-Marie Boyer

Use and Affordances of ICTs in Interorganizational Collaboration: An Exploratory Study of ICTs in Nonprofit Partnerships

  • Sophia Fu, Katherine R. Cooper, Michelle Shumate

Is Collective Impact the Destination? A Typology of Interorganizational Collaboration

  • Rong Wang, Katherine R. Cooper, Anne-Marie Boyer, Shaun M. Dougherty, Michelle Shumate