Peer Reviewed Research

A Complex Culturally Targeted Intervention to Reduce Hispanic Disparities in Living Kidney Donor Transplantation: An Effectiveness-Implementation Hybrid Study Protocol

View the Resource By Elisa J. Gordon, Jungwha Lee, Raymond H. Kang, Juan Carlos Caicedo, Jane L. Holl, Daniela P. Ladner, Michelle Shumate 1. Background: The shortage of organs for kidney transplantation for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is magnified in Hispanics/Latin Americans in the United States. Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) is the treatment of choice for ESRD. However, compared to their representation on the transplant waitlist, fewer

Interorganizational Network Portfolios of Nonprofit Organizations

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Sophia Fu, Katherine R. Cooper, Jennifer Ihm Despite a body of scholarship that focuses on the characteristics of both within-sector and cross-sector partnerships for nonprofit organizations at the collaborative dyad or whole network level, we know little about the patterns of relationships that a focal organization maintains with other organizations at the meso-level. This research drew upon surveys from 520 nonprofit organizations and employed

The Nonprofit Capacities Instrument

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Katherine R. Cooper, Andrew Pilny, Macarena Pena-y-lillo Nonprofits are guided by internal efforts and external mandates to build capacity. However, scholars and grant makers are hampered by varied definitions of the concept, competing but untested models, and the lack of a reliable and valid measure. This research defines nonprofit capacity as the processes, practices, and people that the organization has at its disposal that

News Media, Social Media, and Hyperlink Networks: An Examination of Integrated Media Effects

View the Resource By Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate Research typically focuses on one medium. But in today’s digital media environment, people use and are influenced by their experience with multiple systems. Building on media ecology research, we introduce the notion of integrated media effects. We draw on resource dependence and homophily theories to analyze the mechanisms that connect media systems. To test the integrated media effects, we examine the relationships

Understanding the Size and Spread of Chinese NGO Networks: Capacity and Board Affiliation

View the Resource By Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate In recent years, the amount of research on digital inter-organizational networks among Chinese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has increased greatly. However, few studies have examined the offline networks of Chinese NGOs. To fill this gap, the present study investigates the size and spread of offline Chinese NGO networks. In particular, we examine two competing hypotheses: the influence of organizational capacity and the influence

The Impact of Interorganizational Network Evolution on Outcomes for Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs): A Summary of Current Research

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Andrew Pilny, Katherine R. Cooper, Yannick Atouba Around the world, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), grassroots movements, governments, cooperatives, and universities are discovering that the fight against issues such as poverty, hunger, disease, pandemics, disasters, and environmental degradation requires new forms of organizing, self-organizing networks (Contractor, 1994; Fukuyama, 1999). The networked form of governance represents an empowerment approach to issues of poverty and development (Melkote, 2002),