Browsing by Author "Levine Daniel, Jamie"

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    Addressing Inequity and Othering in our Classrooms and Communities
    (Center for Translating Research Into Practice, IU Indianapolis, 2022-12-16) Levine Daniel, Jamie
    During this presentation, Dr. Jamie Levine Daniel discusses the need to acknowledge, address, and mitigate bias in order to best serve our communities. She highlights how her initial focus on addressing antisemitism in the classroom led her to a broader research focus on equity and justice in process and policy that involves knowledge co-creation with community partners. Examples that she highlights include dismantling racism in philanthropy, tracking cross-border philanthropy, and advocating for science-based health policy.
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    All earned revenue is not created equal: Revenue embeddedness as a framework for exploring crowding-in/crowding-out effects
    (2021) Levine Daniel, Jamie
    Nonprofit organizations increasingly rely on earned revenue to sustain their mission-driven activities. Previous research examining the effects of earned revenue on other income streams tends to study earned revenue in the aggregate. Using panel data from 12,372 organizations from 2010-2015, this analysis uses a framework of revenue embeddedness to link earned revenue activities to mission and analyze the effects of earned revenue activities on donations. Earned revenue activities offering new products or services to existing donors appear to complement individual donations. These findings have theoretical and practical applications related to how nonprofits pursue earned revenue.
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    Beyond Cans and Capacity Nonprofit Roles and Service Network Objectives in an Emergency Food Network
    (Wiley, 2017) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Moulton, Stephanie; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Many essential public services are provided through networks of community‐based nonprofit organizations. Previous research has demonstrated that simply providing additional resources to these organizations is insufficient to better address demands for public services. We also know little about how and why these organizations adopt network‐level objectives related to service provision. In this analysis, we expand the focus of service provision beyond capacity to incorporate the unique roles that define the very existence of nonprofit organizations, and how these roles affect organizational behavior with respect to service network objectives. We use focus group, survey, and administrative data from one hundred community‐based nonprofit organizations in an emergency food service network to explore the relationships among capacity, roles, and specific program objectives.
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    Competition and Collaboration in the Nonprofit Sector: Identifying the Potential for Cognitive Dissonance
    (2021) Curley, Cali; Levine Daniel, Jamie; Walk, Marlene; Harrison, Nicky
    Nonprofits compete with collaborators and collaborate with competitors regularly. Collaboration, a long-standing normatively preferred strategy for nonprofits, is utilized as modus operandi without thought to the potential unintended consequences. While competition, long deemed a dirty, word for nonprofits is a necessary but undesirable reality, avoided without consideration to the potential benefits. Nonprofits leaders may not be willing to explicitly acknowledge the use of competition as an operational strategy, which makes room for cognitive dissonance to impact the study of nonprofits. This piece identifies impacts of cognitive dissonance offering direction for future research exploring the interactive nature of competing with collaborators.
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    Competition is on the rise: to what extent does traditional fundraising performance research apply in competitive environments?
    (2022-01-14) Walk, Marlene; Curley, Cali; Levine Daniel, Jamie
    Research on fundraising performance links organizational size, professional donor engagement, and legitimacy with fundraising outcomes. But can we assume the same factors will positively impact fundraising performance in light of increasing competition among nonprofits? This study explores whether and how traditional factors known to impact fundraising performance perform in the context of online fundraising tournaments, an environment that is explicitly competitive as those who lose drop out. Our analysis draws on data from 596 US nonprofits that participated in such tournaments. This inquiry addresses increasing competitive pressures placed on nonprofits as they likely cannot avoid competition in the future.
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    Creative Placemaking: Building Partnerships to Create Change
    (Midwest Public Affairs Conference, 2019) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Kim, Mirae; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Arts, artists, and creative strategies can be critical vehicles for planning to achieve social, economic, and community goals. Creative placemaking is one type of arts-led planning that incorporates both stakeholder participation and community goals. Yet, questions exist around who participates in the creative placemaking process and to what end. Our study discusses a case where a state-sponsored workshop brings people from diverse backgrounds together to facilitate community development and engagement through creative placemaking. In particular, the event discussed in this study highlights how a one-shot intervention can reshape perceptions of creative placemaking held by planners, non-planners, artists, and non-artists. Our study also shows that while pre-workshop participants tended to identify resource-based challenges, post-workshop participants focused more on initiating collaborations and being responsive to community needs. The different attitudes before and after the state-sponsored workshop demonstrate the importance of facilitating stakeholder understanding and engagement for successful creative placemaking.
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    How Foundations in an Aligned Action Network Start to Move to Equity in Philanthropy: Findings from a Year of Observations and Interviews
    (2023) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Dinh, Tuyen K.; Paarlberg, Laurie Ellen
    Community foundations across the United States hold a powerful role in leading meaningful social change toward an equitable future. Despite community foundations' unique leadership role at the intersection of place, race, wealth, and inequality, we understand little about how such foundations understand and implement efforts that are responsive to issues in their communities, especially communities that have been historically marginalized. This study examines how community foundations within an aligned action network are engaging in philanthropic efforts through their shared commitment to advancing social and economic mobility. Using data from interviews with foundation staff, network meeting observations, and network documents over the course of a year, we sought to answer three research questions: how community foundations define equity, what structures, processes, and activities were perceived as supporting their equity-related work, and how membership within NEON can help highlight these efforts. Findings illuminate a model of philanthropic efforts along two dimensions: foundation focus (internal and external) and expression type (implicit and explicit). This article unfolds the process within collaborative efforts among community foundations and offers insights for other foundations to better understand expectations and prepare for the conditions necessary to meaningfully engage in social equity and justice efforts, with internal and external community stakeholders.
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    The Intersection of Nonprofit Roles and Public Policy Implementation
    (Taylor & Francis, 2019-05-02) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Fyall, Rachel
    Many nonprofit organizations implement policy through service delivery. In addition, these nonprofits serve other roles in their communities. Policy implementation strategies that overlook the many roles nonprofits play may misunderstand implementation challenges or fail to maximize the benefits of public-nonprofits partnerships. We aim to inform policy implementation by presenting a narrative that explores the intersection of these nonprofit roles and policy implementation through nonprofit service delivery. We situate this focus on nonprofits as policy implementers within a framework of nonprofit roles. We present commentary that integrates policy implementation and nonprofit roles by focusing on four themes: nonprofit role simultaneity, service delivery/policy implementation perceptual asymmetry, nonprofit roles over time, and network participation. Accounting for this multidimensionality can help government actors facilitate partnerships that enable service delivery while also recognizing what nonprofits do independent of their formal arrangements with governments.
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    Is “overhead” a tainted word? A survey experiment exploring framing effects of nonprofit overhead on donor decision
    (SAGE, 2021) Qu, Heng; Levine Daniel, Jamie; School of Public and Environmental Affairs
    Nonprofit overhead ratios (i.e. proportion of funds spent on fundraising and/or management) have long been used as a proxy for nonprofit efficiency. Prior studies find that donors negatively respond to charities with higher overhead. Using a survey experiment, we explore whether providing different types of information about overhead alleviates this donor aversion. When asked to choose between two organizations as donation recipients, donors preferred the organization with lower overhead. However, when presented with information that described the purpose of higher overhead as building long-term organizational capacity, an increased proportion of donors chose to give to the organization with higher overhead. Omitting the word “overhead” further increased the proportion of donors choosing the organization with higher overhead. This study adds to our understanding of overhead aversion and has practical implications for nonprofits that rely on voluntary private contributions to achieve their missions.
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    Op/Ed: Indiana abortion law won't improve health for Hoosiers, but will increase obstacles
    (The Indianapolis Star, 2022-08-05) Levine Daniel, Jamie; Bosslet, Gabriel; Zee-Cheng, Janine
    The Indiana Senate passed Senate Bill 1 on Saturday (July 30, 2022), which will ban abortion in Indiana. The House is set to vote on it this week. A close examination of the bill and the fate of amendments proposed in the Senate’s legislative process demonstrate that this process does not appear to be motivated by improving health outcomes for Hoosiers, limiting the number of abortions in the state or representing the will of the majority of Hoosiers.