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Item Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds(2019-12-10) Gillespie, ElizabethThis research extends knowledge of women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. following the publication of a landscape scan of these organizations in May 2019. The landscape scan revealed that women’s foundations and funds use philanthropy to empower women, create positive change, and impact women and the broader community. They foster empowerment, change, and impact through grantmaking and by engaging in other activities, including advocacy and collaboration. The landscape scan also found that women’s foundations and funds often apply grantmaking philosophies, such as social change and gender lens philanthropy, and carry out their work through a variety of approaches. This study builds on the landscape scan to better understand how these organizations set goals, measure impact, and take action to advance the causes they care about.Item Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds - Executive Summary(2019-12-10) Gillespie, ElizabethAn earlier landscape scan of women’s foundations and funds in the U.S. revealed that they use philanthropy to empower women and create positive change that benefits women and the broader community. Change Agents builds on that landscape scan, extending knowledge of women’s foundations and funds to better understand how these organizations set goals, measure impact, and take action to advance women.Item Change Agents: The Goals and Impact of Women’s Foundations and Funds - Infographic(2019-12-10) Gillespie, ElizabethThis study adds a much-needed gender focus to grantmaking foundation literature, including new knowledge about the impact of investing in women.Item Hope, Goals, and Pathways: Further Validating the Hope Scale with Observer Ratings(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Cheavens, Jennifer S.; Heiy, Jane E.; Feldman, David B.; Benitez, Cinthia; Rand, Kevin L.; Psychology, School of ScienceObjective: For the past two decades, hope theory has been an important framework for conceptualizing goal pursuits. Surprisingly there has been little effort to test the underlying suppositions of hope theory or to further validate the Hope Scale. Method: In Study 1, participants (N = 162, Mage = 19, 61% female) completed the Hope Scale and nominated goals they would like to accomplish in the next few months. Goals were coded on several dimensions. In Study 2, participants (N = 118, Mage = 19, 59% female) completed the Hope Scale, measures of optimism and self-efficacy, and generated workable pathways for achieving standardized goals. Results: Hope scores predicted setting objectively important, prosocial, long-term, and challenging goals. Hope (but not optimism or self-efficacy) was associated with generating more pathways for standardized goals. Conclusions: The results of these studies generally support the tenets of hope theory and provide further validation for the Hope Scale. As expected, people with higher hope were more likely than their lower-hope counterparts to engage in what has been considered successful goal-setting behavior. Hope is associated with important goal-relevant behaviors and efforts to increase hopeful thought may be important in helping individuals to move toward important life outcomes.Item Language and hope in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders(Elsevier, 2016-11) Bonfils, Kelsey A.; Luther, Lauren; Firmin, Ruth L.; Lysaker, Paul H.; Minor, Kyle S.; Salyers, Michelle P.; Department of Psychology, School of ScienceHope is integral to recovery for those with schizophrenia. Considering recent advancements in the examination of clients’ lexical qualities, we were interested in how clients’ words reflect hope. Using computerized lexical analysis, we examined social, emotion, and future words’ relations to hope and its pathways and agency components. Forty-five clients provided detailed narratives about their life and mental illness. Transcripts were analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program (LIWC), which assigns words to categories (e.g., “anxiety”) based on a pre-existing dictionary. Correlations and linear multiple regression were used to examine relationships between lexical qualities and hope. Hope and its subcomponents had significant or trending bivariate correlations in expected directions with several emotion-related word categories (anger and sadness) but were not associated with expected categories such as social words, positive emotions, optimism, achievement, and future words. In linear multiple regressions, no LIWC variable significantly predicted hope agency, but anger words significantly predicted both total hope and hope pathways. Our findings indicate lexical analysis tools can be used to investigate recovery-oriented concepts such as hope, and results may inform clinical practice. Future research should aim to replicate our findings in larger samples.