Capacity building for nonprofits: a Hartford example

Like for-profit organizations, nonprofits need strong infrastructure to ensure long-term effectiveness and to respond to increasing demands for accountability. Our Piece of the Pie in Hartford is one nonprofit that benefited from building its organizational capacity.Nonprofit organizations - Connecticut

Driving Strategy for Social Impact

Authors Anne Sherman and Paul Connolly offer frameworks and advice to help guide nonprofits and funders through a strategy process. An effective strategy provides leaders with criteria for making important decisions and increasing the overall quality of their work

The social impact of a WTO agreement in Indonesia

Indonesia experienced rapid growth and the expansion of the formal financial sector during the last quarter of the 20th century. Although this tendency was reversed by the shock of the financial crisis that spread throughout Asia in 1997 and 1998, macroeconomic stability has since then been restored, and poverty has been reduced to pre-crisis levels. Poverty reduction remains nevertheless a critical challenge for Indonesia with over 110 million people (53 percent of the population) living on less than $2 a day. The objective of this study is to help identify ways in which the Doha Development Agenda might contribute to further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good technical basis for answering this question, the authors use an approach that combines a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation model. This framework is designed to capture important channels through which macroeconomic shocks affect household incomes. It allows making recommendations on specific trade reform options as well as on complementary development policy reforms. The framework presented in this study generates detailed poverty outcomes of trade shocks. Given the magnitude of the shocks examined here and the structural features of the Indonesian economy, only the full liberalization scenario generates significant poverty changes. The authors examine their impact under alternative specifications of the functioning of labor markets. These alternative assumptions generate different results, all of which confirm that the impact of full liberalization on poverty would be beneficial, with wage and employment gains dominating the adverse food price changes that could hurt the poorest households. Two alternative tax replacement schemes are examined. While direct tax replacement appears to be more desirable in terms of efficiency gains and translates into higher poverty reduction, political and practical considerations could lead the Government of Indonesia to choose a replacement scheme through the adjustment of value-added tax rates across nonexempt sectors.Rural Poverty Reduction,Economic Theory&Research,Poverty Assessment,Achieving Shared Growth,Inequality

Reconciling household surveys and national accounts data using a cross entropy estimation method:

This paper presents an approach to reconciling household surveys and national accounts data that starts from the assumption that the macro data represent control totals to which the household data must be reconciled. The economic data gathered in the survey are also assumed to be accurate, or have been adjusted to be accurate. Given these assumptions, the problem is how to use the additional information provided by the national accounts data to re-estimate the household weights used in the survey so that the survey results are consistent with the aggregate data. The estimation approach represents an efficient “information processing rule” using an estimation criterion based on an entropy measure of information. The survey household weights are treated as a prior. New weights are estimated that are close to the prior using a cross-entropy metric and that are also consistent with the additional information. This approach is implemented to reconcile LSMS survey data and macro data for Madagascar. The results indicate that the approach is powerful and flexible, supporting the efficient use of information from a variety of sources to reconcile data at different levels of aggregation in a consistent framework.National income Accounting., Household surveys., Madagascar.,

Change Management: Strategies to Help Nonprofit Leaders Make the Most of Uncertain Times

This briefing paper examines change through a broad organizational framework and offers strategic planning advice. It provides a model for core capacity, looks at how organizational lifecycles provide a context for understanding a nonprofit's capacity building needs, and discusses the role of the CEO and the board in change management

Girls are us: A collection of oral histories from the JMU community

On a campus where women make up a majority of the student population, it is especially important that female voices are heard and given a platform on which they can control their own narrative. I wanted to give those female-identifying voices that platform. I conducted a series of interviews to examine how college-aged female-identifying students feel about their identity and how they construct that identity within the climate of the JMU community. I was particularly interested in the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual preference, and ability. I asked each person to share their stories of times when they were confronted with their difference as it relates to identity, talk about how they define themselves, and offer up advice to the public on how to create a more inclusive environment as it relates to their needs as an individual

The Evolution of Research on Sustainable Business Models: Implications for Management Scholars

Business models that lead to reduced consumption of resources and energy and support a Circular Economy can help businesses address the world’s pressing environmental problems. At the same time, they are concepts that have taken decades to garner serious attention in management literature. In this paper we review patterns in scholarship across a wide range of disciplines (sciences, humanities and management) on the Circular Economy and related business models like Extended Producer Responsibility, Product Service Systems, Collaborative Consumption, Sharing Economy, and Voluntary Simplicity. From this review, we discuss how business scholars might learn from these trends, and the implications for future research on business models that will help lower material consumption

The Ursinus Weekly, February 16, 1959

Dr. Goncharoff discusses world youth at Forum Wed. • Seniors to present play by C. George • Curtain Club presents plays • French Club presents Mme. Helene Bordas • YM-YWCA plan for Spring semester • Music room • Freshmen women elected Wed. Feb. 11 to YWCA, WAA, WSGA • Annual Lorelei to be held at Sunnybrook Fri. • May queen to be elected • Editorial: Destruction • Student opinion • Prof\u27s opinion • Girls\u27 b-ball teams win season\u27s start • B-ball squad drops two close tilts • Ursinus whips E-town in wrestling match 30-6 • Letters to the editorhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1377/thumbnail.jp