Fostering Muslim Civic Engagement through Faith-Based Community Organizing

Fulton, Brad R.

doi:10.18060/21406

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“…Because grants and donations are often identified and secured by the organizations’ leaders, organizations with more diverse leadership teams have access to a greater variety of funding sources. For example, faith-based foundations can be a substantial source of funding for these organizations, and an organization with leaders from several different religious traditions likely has ties to a greater variety of faith-based foundations than an organization with leaders from only one religious tradition (Fulton, 2017). Similarly, organizations that are more racially and gender diverse are likely to have access to a greater variety of funding opportunities for which they have a competitive advantage.…”

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Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Fulton

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Although extensive research has examined whether diversity hinders or improves organizational performance, the aggregate results remain inconclusive. Social bridging theories argue that diverse organizations perform better than homogeneous organizations, while social bonding theories argue that diverse organizations perform worse. When scholars test these competing theories, they often specify bridging and bonding as the inverse of one another. This study instead specifies them as distinct mechanisms and measures them independently using data from a national study of organizations containing information on the race, class, gender, and religion of each organization’s leadership team and the frequency, type, and content of their interactions. The analysis indicates that both bridging and bonding are positively associated with an organization’s performance; however, their respective performance benefits depend on the type of task being performed. The results suggest that social diversity facilitates performance related to accessing external resources and social interaction facilitates performance related to internal coordination.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Fulton

2020

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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“…Additional research provides in-depth information on what congregations fund, including social service provision (Ammerman, 2005;Chaves and Tsitsos, 2001;Cnaan, 2002;Fulton, 2016;Scharffs, 2007), community organizing and civic engagement (Wood and Fulton, 2015;Fulton 2017), international missions and aid (Hudson Institute, 2016;Wuthnow, 2009), and religious schools (Greeley et al, 1976;Harris 1996Harris , 1999Ruger, 1999). Targeted studies on religious giving within particular groups or denominations have resulted in data on giving to black Protestant churches (Barnes 2013;Pressley, 1995;Pressley and Collier, 1999), Muslim mosques (Bagby et al, 2001;Bagby, 2012), Orthodox parishes (Krindatch, 2015), Presbyterian congregations (Krohn, 1995;Lunn et al, 2001;Nemeth and Luidens, 1994), Reformed churches , Jewish synagogues (Cohen, 2004;Cohen et al, 2011;Cohen and Landres, 2014), Mormon temples (Curtis et al, 2014(Curtis et al, , 2015Dahl and Ransom, 1999), Baptist churches (Hull et al, 2010), the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Inskeep, 1994;Brewer et al, 2006), and Catholic parishes (Hoge and Augustyn, 1997;Miller et al, 2001Miller et al, , 2002Notarantonio and Quigley, 2009;Rexhausen and Cieslak, 1994;Starks and Smith, n.d.;…”

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“…Beyond the NCS data, other studies reveal how congregations receive revenue from endowments (Hoge and Mead, 1999) and private foundations (Lindsay and Wuthnow, 2010). Additional research provides in-depth information on what congregations fund, including social service provision (Ammerman, 2005; Chaves and Tsitsos, 2001; Cnaan, 2002; Fulton, 2016; Scharffs, 2007), community organizing and civic engagement (Wood and Fulton, 2015; Fulton 2017), international missions and aid (Hudson Institute, 2016; Wuthnow, 2009), and religious schools (Greeley et al, 1976; Harris 1996, 1999; Ruger, 1999). Targeted studies on religious giving within particular groups or denominations have resulted in data on giving to Black churches (Barnes, 2013; Lincoln and Mamiya, [1990] 2003, esp.…”

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The economic practices of US congregations: A review of current research and future opportunities

2019

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Religious congregations in the US receive substantially more philanthropic contributions than any other category of organizations, yet little research has investigated how congregations receive, manage, and spend these donations. Although the economic practice of religious giving has been researched extensively, most of this research has focused on individuals or households, seeking to explain why people give to religious organizations. Relatively little research has examined the recipients of religious giving to determine how giving works within and affects these organizations. This review examines studies in the field of congregational finances, assesses available sources of data on congregations’ economic practices, and concludes with recommendations for new avenues of research in this field.

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“…Other studies have claimed that funders "leave impact on the table" by avoiding faithbased organizations, doing disservice to their own strategic goals (Eckhart Queenan et al, 2021;Fulton, 2017). Recent studies have shown that faith values and religious communities are still substantial sources of charitable work.…”

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Faith-Based Public Foundations: Identifying the Field and Assessing Its Impact

Ralph¹,

Fulton²,

Allen³

2022

The Foundation Review

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Charitable activity is a core tenet of most faith traditions, and many charitable organizations have a religious identity. However, little is known about the prevalence and scale of faith-based foundations, and how they differ from secular foundations. This study identifies the field of public foundations, differentiates between faith-based and secular foundations, and compares their characteristics by analyzing Form 990 data. Our analysis estimates that 24% of all public charities operate as foundations and that 17% of public foundations are faith-based. We use these findings to generate first-ever estimates for the entire field of public foundations. Based on our analysis and calculations using nonprofit sector data, there are approximately 300,000 public foundations in the U.S., and we estimate that 52,000 of them are faith-based. Collectively, these faith-based public foundations have at least $90 billion in assets, and in 2015, they contributed at least $8 billion to charitable causes. Additional analyses comparing faith-based and secular foundations indicate that faith-based foundations tend to be older, have greater revenue and more assets, receive less money from the government, and distribute more money in grants, especially to international causes. This study provides an important lens through which to examine the field of public foundations and better understand similarities and differences among faith-based and secular foundations. It can help scholars analyze relationships between religion and philanthropy, help grantmakers assess foundations through a faith-based-secular grid, and help grantees identify funders who share a similar orientation toward religion. Overall, this study reveals the meaningful presence of faith-based foundations, indicates the scale of their impact, and underscores religion's enduring and significant influence in the philanthropic sector.

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Fostering Muslim Civic Engagement through Faith-Based Community Organizing

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

Bridging and Bonding: Disentangling Two Mechanisms Underlying the Diversity–Performance Relationship

The economic practices of US congregations: A review of current research and future opportunities

Faith-Based Public Foundations: Identifying the Field and Assessing Its Impact

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